Gabe Newell may now be the Titan's only hope.
  • GadgeteerZA@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yes seems no practical craft is actually able to reach them to recover their sub from that depth. There was no wire to pull them back up. The sub can’t be opened from the inside, even if it had surfaced somewhere. There’ll need to be a serious rethink about the safety design.

    • skele_tron@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Which safety design?

      Imagine if aero transport industry was allowed to cut corners like this and still offer services to passengers.

    • Bowen@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      There’ll need to be a serious rethink about the safety design.

      The owner is on record saying he thinks safety regulations are bogus an he’s actively looked to cutting corners because you can’t live in safety our whole life.

      This whole thing was a stupid mess. I can’t even really muster any sympathy for this situation because everyone made boneheaded decisions every step of the process. Including controlling thrust and control surfaces with a wireless PC controller because you’re too much of a spedthrift to spend 10k on some deep sea cable glands and build an actual fly by wire system for your 1.25 million dollar trips to the bottom of the oceans.

      • kryostar@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Wait whaaaaaaat? They seriously used wireless PC controller for thrust and control surfaces?

        Oh my god. If that’s true that might be the most brain dead thing I’ve ever read today. Can you please give me a source, I have to know more about this now. :0

        Edit: holy shit. I’m watching SomeOrdinaryGamers’ video.

        • MrMonkey@lemm.ee
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          1 year ago

          I can’t speak to the sub, but many Navy ships were retrofitted with systems to be controlled by XBox 360 controllers. Turns out training new people on the controller had huge improvements over the old systems.

          EOD also has robots controlled by a “game controller”. So do many drones.

          This isn’t a “crazy” thing to do. (except if it’s wireless. Keep that cable)

          https://thegamingwatcher.com/pages/articles/best-xbox/2023/6/21/gamepads-military-xbox-controllers-gaming

          • Barbarian772@feddit.de
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            1 year ago

            You’re right if it would have been an xbox controller, it wouldn’t have been crazy.

            It was actually a basically ancient Logitech Controller, which had connection problems even when you use it inside your home in front of your pc.