One step closer to SOMA
Ocean is tough. Tougher than floating cities. Which are more realistic as real habitable environment.
I vote for Stanford torus stations in various L points.
Or, naturally, Mars.
Before that, of course, there are plenty of locations on Earth hard to live in, but not as hard as underwater domes. They should try that.
So Bioshock….
Well, it’s just scientists, so Sealab 2021.
Eventually, the techbros will make a cheaper version and add the pod to the end though.
Pod 6? I hate Pod 6!
Total suck pod.
as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine
The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.
I now wonder if part of the reason that all happened is because the controller battery died, so they couldn’t ascend.
Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters
Well duh? I’ve read the reports. I mean that maybe they went too deep because the controller died. Eg, dude holds button that tells controllers to go deeper. Controller dies… Sub just takes last input and keeps going deeper until it hits the catastrophic depth.
Guy was an idiot for sure, I just wonder if the controller played ANY role at all.
The plan was to go to the Titanic, which is on the bottom of the sea. Controller malfunction or not, the hull was the issue.
It seems unlikely… The vessel wasn’t up to the challenge of anywhere near that depth, and they intended to go that deep from the get go.
I mean, it could be, but Bluetooth shouldn’t work like that - it’s a digital signal with a bunch of failure modes in the spec. You’d have to code it particularly stupidly to have that kind of problem - it’s a very time-synched protocol, even a sudden disconnect with no disconnect signal is something a coder would have to confront explicitly if they were using off the shelf components
I’m not one to bet against bad code, but the decompression seemed to be pretty much instant and within the planned trip, it just seems like it doesn’t survive oscams razor
The F710 isn’t Bluetooth; it uses its own dongle.
Still.
Would you kindly…
i did that in vashj’ir in wow in 2010
And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.
“So we found these slugs that produce magic stem cells…”
Add in “But harvesting it angered the psychic primordial shark that we worship as a god.” And you’ve got the rough plot for the water planet from Kotor 1.
Maybe the pact holds longer in those silos 😆
Because of its narcotic effect at high pressure, nitrogen shouldn’t be breathed by humans at depths below about 60 meters. So, at 200 meters, the breathing mix in the habitat will be 2 percent oxygen and 98 percent helium. But because of its very high thermal conductivity, “we need to heat helium to 31–32 °C to get a normal 21–22 °C internal temperature environment,”
😮
So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?
Hmm… maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect… I think?
If the original SeaLab tests in the 60s were any indication, YES. Check out Scott Carpenter’s voice on this recording with LBJ. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wkh6s
Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.
Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.
You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.
What they mean is they will need to use the amount of energy that you would normally put into air to get it to 31° C, but the helium will only get to 21° C. At no point will the helium actually be 31° C.
So basically Rapture
A friend of mine has just broken the record of 100 days living under water. He is aiming for 120 days.
My mate Paul…
Rudiger actually.
Man why did I have to go so far down to find this one? Lol
If you’re lookin for me,
You’d better check under the sea,
Cause that is where you’ll find me,
Underneath the seaaaaaa lab,
Underneath the water,
Seaaaaa lab…“I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”
Bizzaro I love you bizzaro!
Chopper Dave!
Eggers, sir
Vanguard is now under Martian Law!
Mustache on or off?
Too bad
high pressures are scary as shit.
apart from that, there’s no sunlight down there. it’s basically like living in antarctica.
Will there be penguins?
Good thing that doesn’t cause any pr-
https://www.livescience.com/52467-why-antarctica-fuels-excess-drinking.html
https://theweek.com/crime/antarctica-sexual-harassment
Oh.
The episode where he tells Jonathan Brandis about condoms remains to this day the cringiest thing I have ever seen on a TV show. By far.
Wow, that’s way more detail than I ever want to remember.
I wish I could forget.
Billionaires first
Titan II: Back for more billionaires
Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.
you should read michael chrichton’s book sphere. it talks about some of the tom & jerry tier physics and biology disasters that can happen in a deep sea habitat
Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.
Ooh. Dunno about the adaptation side of things. I will say that I read the damned thing all in one night. Had to stay home from classes after doing so. Good book, to say the least.
Many people said the same things about the ISS, I’m sure.
What government is interested in this project. Please name one.
Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones
There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit
Well, they gotta get those angels somehow…
Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!
Ok but why? Why would anybody chose to live confined underwater? If you like airtight containers so much just build a bunker
Why would anybody chose to live confined underwater?
Why would anyone choose to live confined in space? Idk, but the ISS still exists.
The ISS isn’t some for-profit silicon valley bro venture.
