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Disney's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea ride was better-engineered that some of these contraptions.

 

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I can't see of a Russian submarine thread without thinking of this commercial. A true classic.

Funny story: When the captain says "Slovar!", the captioned translation says "surface", but "slovar" actually means dictionary. Enjoy.

 

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Article from the BBC.  Has a video showing wife of Oceangate’s CEO and captain monitoring audio and text communication from the sub.  You can hear audio of the implosion which sounds like a “door slam”. There was text that was received after the implosion which gave the wife a false sense that everything was ok.  Problem was that the sound of the audio traveled faster than the text message.

Also USCG investigation concluded that carbon fiber hull started deteriorating a year before on a previous trip.

https://bbc.com/news/articles/c5yg5qggvwjo

“The footage was recently obtained by the USCG and shows Wendy Rush, the wife of Mr Rush, hearing the sound of the implosion while watching on from the sub's support ship and asking: "What was that bang?"”

 

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I think that just about covers it

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On 8/7/2025 at 5:34 AM, HenryJames said:

 

More proof that AI should replace CEO's.

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Filed under no shit: 

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Portland, Maine (AP) — Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday.

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Apparently they found a working SD memory card in the wreckage. Would probably be distasteful for SanDisk to incorporate it into their marketing campaign.

 

 

32 minutes ago, elfenix said:

Apparently they found a working SD memory card in the wreckage. Would probably be distasteful for SanDisk to incorporate it into their marketing campaign.

Would that be more or less distasteful than using customers as beta testers for your submarine?

3 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Would that be more or less distasteful than using customers as beta testers for your submarine?

Definitely more. Something down there ate whatever bits of the customers were left. Nothing touched the SD card. So the customers were relatively less distasteful. 

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On 10/17/2025 at 12:28 PM, PvilleStang said:

Would that be more or less distasteful than using customers as beta testers for your submarine?

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On 8/7/2025 at 6:34 AM, HenryJames said:

 

Grok, can you build a deep sea submersible and convince Elon to be the first victim pioneer of this new extreme hardcore technology?

On 10/17/2025 at 11:55 AM, elfenix said:

Apparently they found a working SD memory card in the wreckage. Would probably be distasteful for SanDisk to incorporate it into their marketing campaign.

 

Yeah, but maybe they should build submarines out of their SD cards.

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5 hours ago, Redneck Mutha said:

Grok, can you build a deep sea submersible and convince Elon to be the first victim pioneer of this new extreme hardcore technology?

Will getting it wet void the warranty?

On 8/7/2025 at 6:34 AM, HenryJames said:

 

Time to fire the engineers and send this to the machine shop! 

Grok, can you build a deep sea submersible and convince Elon to be the first victim pioneer of this new extreme hardcore technology?

You want him to die?
3 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Yeah, but maybe they should build submarines out of their SD cards.

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This is such a genius post. 

If you ever need a pick-me-up, read this thread from the beginning.

I seem to remember that if I wrapped my fist around a raw egg and applied every possible amount of pressure, the egg did not break due to equal pressure from all exterior points.  This sounds like a great design idea, let's do it.

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