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Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search (www.bbc.com)
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Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.

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[–] Bucket_of_Truth@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The guy in this CBS video points out how shitty the sub "seems." Dude drives the thing with a Madcatz controller!

[–] FloatingAlong@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.

That thing is a slapped-together mess.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.

[–] darkmuggle@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s

[–] BeHereNow@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.

[–] AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's nothing wrong with that at all.

The US military literally uses Xbox controllers for a lot of their drones and tech.

It's kind of a rare move by the Pentagon of actually spend smartly.

Why spend millions on R&D to develop something that already exists and has been iterated based on massive operator feedback a dozen times over decades? It's literally a platform that has been designed and honed to operate vehicles of every shape and size.