• @KillerTofu
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    22318 days ago

    Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? ‘No!’ says the man in Washington, ‘It belongs to the poor.’ ‘No!’ says the man in the Vatican, ‘It belongs to God.’ ‘No!’ says the man in Moscow, ‘It belongs to everyone.’ I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

    • Ioughttamow
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      “Unless that man is an actual laborer, haha, fuck those plebs”

    • @SendMePhotos
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      1018 days ago

      I’m having mixed feelings. Are we going here or not? On one hand no censoring… On the other hand… No censoring. Also doom, but there’s also doom here too.

        • @Eldritch
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          3218 days ago

          Perhaps. But I think I may have figured out their logic… no bears under water. So they won’t have to worry about bear attack while drowning from lack of maintenance

            • Flying Squid
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              317 days ago

              Hell yeah they are. Them’s my boys.

          • @[email protected]
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            518 days ago

            Yeah, they wouldn’t need to worry about bears, but I doubt the panic would allow them the time to contemplate the phrase, “No single drop thinks it’s to blame for the flood” very much.

          • @[email protected]
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            117 days ago

            i doubt they’d have time to drown tbh, at depth a small leak is likely to cause immediate and sudden implosion, instantly crushing anyone inside. not sure how that would play out in a larger non-circular space though like rapture.

          • @[email protected]
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            Grafton, not Keene. Keene did have some free staters, but the cryptocurrency sovereign citizen pedophile kind.

            • @[email protected]
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              1418 days ago

              Oh yeah! Grafton. Got those two mixed up lmao. They cut the towns taxes to zero and couldn’t pay the garbage pickup. That brought the bears who proceeded to rule the town.

  • merde alors
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    Because of its narcotic effect at high pressure, nitrogen shouldn’t be breathed by humans at depths below about 60 meters. So, at 200 meters, the breathing mix in the habitat will be 2 percent oxygen and 98 percent helium. But because of its very high thermal conductivity, “we need to heat helium to 31–32 °C to get a normal 21–22 °C internal temperature environment,”

    😮

    • DreamButt
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      4118 days ago

      So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?

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        2918 days ago

        Hmm… maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect… I think?

      • @[email protected]
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        Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.

        You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.

    • Echo Dot
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      1918 days ago

      What they mean is they will need to use the amount of energy that you would normally put into air to get it to 31° C, but the helium will only get to 21° C. At no point will the helium actually be 31° C.

    • @Lawnman23
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      2418 days ago

      “I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”

    • @King3d
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      818 days ago

      Chopper Dave!

    • Axum
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      517 days ago

      Man why did I have to go so far down to find this one? Lol

    • @Bacano
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      If you’re lookin for me,
      You’d better check under the sea,
      Cause that is where you’ll find me,
      Underneath the seaaaaaa lab,
      Underneath the water,
      Seaaaaa lab…

    • Flying Squid
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      317 days ago

      Vanguard is now under Martian Law!

    • @Volume
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      317 days ago

      Bizzaro I love you bizzaro!

  • FreshLight
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    5918 days ago

    Will it be filled to the brim with billionaires so it can also malfunction and we are on time for the annual billionaire sacrifice to the sea gods?

    • @MintyFresh
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      Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I’ve ever loved.

      • @[email protected]
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        918 days ago

        It’s not a toy. It makes real cupcakes… with a 40 watt bulb… and there’s icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love… Damn it.

      • @fjordbasa
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        918 days ago

        Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?

        Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.

      • Flying Squid
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        317 days ago

        I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!

    • @FanciestPants
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      718 days ago

      Read headline, music immediately started in my head, “if you’re looking for me…”

    • Flying Squid
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      117 days ago

      Only if they inaugurate Vanguard on the day of the Feast of Alvis.

    • @Duamerthrax
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      Well, it’s just scientists, so Sealab 2021.

      Eventually, the techbros will make a cheaper version and add the pod to the end though.

      • Pup Biru
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        1218 days ago

        as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine

        • @Duamerthrax
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          1718 days ago

          The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.

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            018 days ago

            I now wonder if part of the reason that all happened is because the controller battery died, so they couldn’t ascend.

            • @[email protected]
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              618 days ago

              Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters

              • Saik0
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                117 days ago

                Well duh? I’ve read the reports. I mean that maybe they went too deep because the controller died. Eg, dude holds button that tells controllers to go deeper. Controller dies… Sub just takes last input and keeps going deeper until it hits the catastrophic depth.

                Guy was an idiot for sure, I just wonder if the controller played ANY role at all.

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                  117 days ago

                  It seems unlikely… The vessel wasn’t up to the challenge of anywhere near that depth, and they intended to go that deep from the get go.

                  I mean, it could be, but Bluetooth shouldn’t work like that - it’s a digital signal with a bunch of failure modes in the spec. You’d have to code it particularly stupidly to have that kind of problem - it’s a very time-synched protocol, even a sudden disconnect with no disconnect signal is something a coder would have to confront explicitly if they were using off the shelf components

                  I’m not one to bet against bad code, but the decompression seemed to be pretty much instant and within the planned trip, it just seems like it doesn’t survive oscams razor

                • @[email protected]
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                  117 days ago

                  The plan was to go to the Titanic, which is on the bottom of the sea. Controller malfunction or not, the hull was the issue.

    • @pyre
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      1017 days ago

      Titan II: Back for more billionaires

  • Cyber Yuki
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    3717 days ago

    And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.

      • @Furbag
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        316 days ago

        Add in “But harvesting it angered the psychic primordial shark that we worship as a god.” And you’ve got the rough plot for the water planet from Kotor 1.

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      Sure when in air. Not so much for underwater or really anywhere where they have to deal with a pressure differential, either positive or negative, where large flat sides are detrimental.

    • @kerrigan778
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      The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you’re gridding it.

      EDIT (stronger for the TOTAL material used)

      • @UnrepentantAlgebra
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        Nah if you only build a 2D structure, you won’t have to worry about the water pressure because your structure will likely not be able to interact with 3D matter. It’s genius engineering IMHO.

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    3118 days ago

    Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.

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      1818 days ago

      you should read michael chrichton’s book sphere. it talks about some of the tom & jerry tier physics and biology disasters that can happen in a deep sea habitat

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        Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.

        • @[email protected]
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          Ooh. Dunno about the adaptation side of things. I will say that I read the damned thing all in one night. Had to stay home from classes after doing so. Good book, to say the least.

      • @[email protected]
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        Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones

        There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit

    • @JeeBaiChow
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      118 days ago

      Well, they gotta get those angels somehow

  • @[email protected]
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    3117 days ago

    If your looking for me
    You better check under the sea
    Cause that is where you’ll find me
    Underneath the
    Sealab, Underneath the water
    Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.

    About 4 years late, but whatever.

    • @Narauko
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      Why do I apparently have the entire theme song still in my brain meats? I only thought the show was ok during its original Adult Swim run, and it wasn’t even a brain wormie theme. I apparently need to go back and watch it again to see what’s up.

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        I am probably a minority, but I think it’s the funniest of the early Adult Swim originals.

          • Flying Squid
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            116 days ago

            The Feast of Alvis is my favorite.

        • @Narauko
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          216 days ago

          Well I am going to put it to the test and see if it’s available anywhere to binge watch. I remember it being perfectly fine and enjoyable, but never one I was intentionally waiting to watch. Time to find out if it holds up or even gets better with age.

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      The jerks in Pod Six made you late, didn’t they?

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    high pressures are scary as shit.

    apart from that, there’s no sunlight down there. it’s basically like living in antarctica.

    • Flying Squid
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      217 days ago

      The episode where he tells Jonathan Brandis about condoms remains to this day the cringiest thing I have ever seen on a TV show. By far.

      • @LovableSidekick
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        216 days ago

        Wow, that’s way more detail than I ever want to remember.

  • @nialv7
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    If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW

  • ZeroOne
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    So basically Rapture