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The US military heard it and didn’t necessarily want to give away capability of listening devices around the sea floor.
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The sub was difficult to get to the debris field because it was at an incredibly deep section that few craft are capable of reaching safely.
It was frustrating they made a big deal about something we ultimately could have done nothing about in the first place. However it’s not like the whole “hearing the implosion” thing was something the military wanted to give away and at that depth we have to be careful. Don’t forget we’ve put more people into space than have been to the deepest point on the planet.
Don’t forget we’ve put more people into space than have been to the deepest point on the planet.
Fun fact, space is easier. It takes more effort to get there, sure. Coming from the “normal pressure” here on earth (about 1 atm) and going to space (0 atm) is a pressure difference of 1 atm. But: Diving into the ocean, the pressure increases the deeper you go. For every ~10 meters (~33ft) you go deeper, the pressure increases by 1 atm.
That means, that a space ships would only need to dive 10 m deep to get to the pressure difference it experiences in space. They went to see the Titanic which is about 3,800 m deep. So the sub needs to withhold a pressure difference that’s about 380 times higher than a space ship experiences.
(OK, little difference I omitted: In space you need to prevent the vehicle from exploding, while in the deep sea you need to prevent it from imploding)
The atmospheres of pressure gag on Futurama is still one of the best that show ever did.
Good bot!!
“Anywhere between zero and one” kills me every time
Yup, it’s part of why the idea of rescuing them was never going to happen either. There’s only something like 3 subs in the world that can dive to that depth and they weren’t close enough nor built for rescue missions. Even if they were alive they only had 3 days worth of oxygen. Honestly they’re lucky that the “sub” just imploded rather than dealing with the slow loss of oxygen.
I’m not sure about that, hypoxia could be a fun time. CO2 poisoning would just be sleepy… So not as fun I guess. Waiting to die would definitely be lame though.
Try again. High CO2 is highly uncomfortable. You cannot catch your breath, headaches, confusion, body has to deal with blood trying to go more acidic… CO2 poisoning is anything but a nice nap.
Exactly. Your lungs don’t burn when you hold your breath because O2 is low, they burn because CO2 is high. Any other gas to displace the O2 is undetectable (aside from irritants and smells). It’s why huffing helium doesn’t burn but can make you light headed faster than you realize. That’s why CO poisoning is so dangerous. CO2 poisoning is torture. And yet CO2 pits are still legal for kill pits…
So why did they reveal that info after if it was so sensitive? I wouldn’t have thought that would have changed anything. I also have vague memories of reports of a “sound” being detected early on but then not mentioned again until after. Then again my memory is trash so I dunno
How quickly they process the information, how accuratly they could determine the source, and how accuratly they could determine the location would all be fairly sensitive information.
Basically what I’m saying is that if they announced right after it happened that “Hey guys that sub imploded at X depth and the debris field will be at Y location because we heard a pressure vessel of the correct size crush followed by the sound of something of roughly the correct mass crashing into the sea floor.” Then everyone would know how capable our equipment is.
Basically announcing it days later gives a conclusion to the questions of what happened and also will likely keep others from meeting a similar fate. Not to mention the benefit of telling other countries that “Yes we can and will find out about what goes on underwater, just how quickly is more of a mystery… For you.”
No offence but if you have this line of thinking it’s fairly safe to assume other countries have people whose job it is to think this way who would have easily come to the same conclusion. I mean how quickly isn’t leaving too much to the imagination. I would just assume they’re capable of doing everything you mentioned plus more
The accuracy is a big part of it
Saying “We heard something in that multi square mile area that may be worth looking into” is way different than “We know exactly where and what it was”
And how quickly they could definitively identify what the sound was and where can play a big role in identifying capabilities of the systems at play and the how advanced they are
And of course knowing capabilities is a key part in developing systems to circumvent such systems
Basically what I’m trying to say in entirely too many words is that specifics matter a lot, especially to the military. And specifically knowing what someone is capable of can be used as a way of getting around it or using their own systems against them. Especially so that you know you’re not investing in systems research that is already defeated by anothers systems.
Welcome to how spying works
So assume they can do it but if you invest to heavily in countering that assumption and your assumption turns out to be wrong you wasted resource on something that may be a better assumption?
You don’t give away your capabilities regardless of what you assume your adversary has.
It’s that simple.
Think back to when Trump showed a classified satellite image of an Iranian launch pad. The detail was so precise that Internet sleuths were able to figure out the exact satellite used to take the image. Keeping your hardware specs secret is a foundational pillar of opsec
No. They heard it at the surface. You hear the equivalent of hundreds of pounds of explosives going off within a few thousand feet. It probably even vibrated the boat a bit.
It was the equivalent of a massive depth charge. They heard it at the surface near by unless the entire crew was sound asleep.
Source for all that please, I’m interested.
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Definitely thought this was talking about a subreddit and I got real confused there for a minute 😅
It isn’t? I’m still confused what else a “sub” could be in this context…
Edit: after reading more it’s “submarine”, I’ve spent way too much time on Reddit.
A submarine. You remember the rich maniac who wanted to see the titanic wreck and didn’t apply to any safety regulations since it’s international water
*submersible
Submersibles, unlike submarines, have to be transported to where they are going to operate by a different vessel.
yeah still getting used to lemmy, months later
Send more billionaires to see the boat.
2027 headline: “Craft carrying six billionaires lost at sea during voyage to see the wreckage of the submarine that went last year to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the submarine that went to see the wreckage of the Titanic in 2023.”
Book now for the next layer of viewing! (And showing)
“Be a part of history!”
Tell them it is a tax haven
A tax haven is the closest to heaven they will ever get.
Did you know that property transfers below 12000ft are non-taxable? Few people know that tax laws have a little glitch where they do not apply below 12000ft.
I would like to nominate Bezos, Musk and of course Trump. Those would be my top 3 I think.
But why did you only name 2 billionaires
I’ll let Donnie slide on this one
What I want to know about that accident is, which idiot kept spreading the lie that the search teams were hearing “banging noises” every half hour, long after the sub had imploded.
Somebody was doing a little trolling
Where’s the meme
sigh “Pepperidge farm remembers” (sad voice)
Remember when there was a boat full of migrants that sank around the same time and nobody in power gave half a shit about it even though it would’ve been way easier to locate and rescue those people?
Corporate media moment, dry humping us for ad revenue
I mostly remember the non-stop memes from the moment they went missing.
Good times.
Controller disconnected.
And they were searching every fuckin where but the spot they went down
They weren’t searching anywhere at all, because they didn’t have a suitable submersible available. They were looking on the surface in case they popped up, but once the remote submersible got there, they went straight down to the wreck.
Easy there, you’re overthinking this /s
Yeah, Im still wondering if they ever had definitive results from their investigation of the wreckage.
The Logitech controller surely was not to blame.
Ironically it copped a lot of flack but I don’t think it was
Of course not, it’s not like it was a Mad Catz controller. Logitech is at least a little bit better than that.
I don’t know, their new Hub software is kinda bad…
Probably still ongoing, it’s not a fast process typically.
Do I remember one of the most recent media jippos? Or is that the joke…?
Well, there wouldn’t be much conversation if you didn’t and yes Pepperidge farm remembers
