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sudo-EatPant
@sudo-EatPant

every fact i am learning about this stupid deathtrap submarine is giving me psycic damage! like beyond the facts that it was a 100% sealed vessel with no means of escape in an emergency, and the multiple other levels of insane decisions (Why was the only communication with the sub done with text messages???? Why is anyone going to the bottom of the ocean to look at shit through a camera feed in a windowless submarine???? (edit, apparently there was a window but it wasnt certified to the depth they were going so yeah still not good)), the thing i feel like complaining about right now is the choice to use a video game controller to run the main controls for the sub. Multiple levels of wtf here:

  1. Video game controller
  2. wireless video game controller
  3. Wireless video game controller powered by AA batteries

at first i thought "well the military controls drones with these so its not without precedent" but actually the key here is "drone" as in "unmanned vehicle that you are not currently riding in and therefore not subject to forces that can knock the controls out of your hands"! and also its wireless so if its out of your hands it can go anywhere, theres nothing holding it to anything, not even a flimsy USB tether! You couldnt have added one of those firmly mounted N64 controllers that McDonalds had in the 90's? And of course after the controller has hit a hard surface, its powered by AA batteries that are going to be knocked out of the controller and if you lose the batteries you are FUCKED and i know in my heart that they did not have spares for that anywhere! I am so fucking angry with this level of incompetence
also yes the company is called oceangate, its not a new "lets call this thing-gate"


twilight-sparkle
@twilight-sparkle
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ovengoats
@ovengoats

my favorite parts about this situation:

  • this quote from the CEO of oceangate 'We only have one button, that's it. It should be like an elevator, it shouldn't take a lot of skill,' Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which conducts deep-sea tours in the Titan submersible, told Pogue.
  • THIS is the controller. a $30 logitech controller released in 2010. with 3d printed sticks glued to it. a logitech game controller on the floor of the sub. it is visibly cheap and 3rd party, and it has black 3d printed sticks glued to the control sticks.

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in reply to @sudo-EatPant's post:

i am only hearing bits and pieces of this whole thing and every part i hear makes me feel more like it couldn't possibly be real, but also that it certainly is. absolutely absurd that this was allowed to happen, that anybody looked at this and thought "yeah i'll pay to get on this shitty thing"

in reply to @twilight-sparkle's post:

i could be wrong, but an escape hatch in this situation is not a good idea, further, i think i remember it is incredibly hard to communicate via radio under water, you need to use very low frequencies and there you have a low bandwidth, why no cable? a bit long innit?

why go down there and look at a video feed? money, status,... probabs idk my brain is still functionin properly so i wouldnt want to visit that thing in a sub built to last 5(!!!!) dives but only survived a single one which made the original engineer scrap the plan (carbon fiber, virgin galactic i think) but these guys, they obviously didnt want to risk another....... dollar spent on testing that shitcan wtf. you really DONT want to know more. its fucking grotesk