Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by sschueller on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:05PM (#36409742)

From what I read it is also the first carbon fiber deep water vessel. I find that scary as carbon fiber does not start to bend before falure, it fails catastrophically.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by throw9away6 on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:17PM (#36409883)

Not quite you get first ply failure before catastrophic

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by vicktour on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @04:53PM (#36410389)

I would honestly choose that over sitting on the bottom for 96 hours. Something about sitting there for 4 days with no hope is more terrifying to me.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by rurp on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:13PM (#36410710)

That would be awful, but early failure signs give folks a chance to abort the dive and get out before it turns catastrophic.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by shpx on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @07:11PM (#36412045)

You can donate a day to the remaining 4 people then.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by kiicia on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @06:41PM (#36411733)

they literally drilled holes on the inside to mount computer display

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by jrockway on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:11PM (#36412575)

Realistically, aluminum and steel can fail in a similar manner. There was a lot of FUD when carbon fiber bikes came out that they can fail randomly after a crash that is apparently fine, but basically the aluminum bikes they replaced also failed like that.

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