I get why everyone is focusing on the controller as it seems silly to most but its actually a fairly common practice now a days to use off the shelf controllers for very expensive machines. I know the US military switched to Xbox controllers for some types of remote operated devices that were previously controlled by 'custom' controllers that were costing upwards of $15k each.
No comment on the rest of the vessel's build quality but the controller is definitely not something to focus much attention on.
Maybe I'll grant you that, but at the same time...the thing is an antique.
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So what are the capabilities the Aurora has when it's on station to find the sub? It drops a sonar buoy or two or three, there's really not a whole lot it can do after is there?
Just listening to the BBC coverage and the guy on now, a journalist, did say on one of the trips, the playstation controller did fail. When they were at the bottom of the ocean, they found that the controller would only allow them to go in circles. After a while of trouble shooting, they got it going, but the pilot had to hold it upside down.
The real life tragic implications of "his controller disconnected"
Was wondering why such a massive effort was undertaken to find those 5 people compared to that trying to rescue the migrants who were in plain sight.
Completely different scenario. The coast guards involved in this rescue had no role in the other situation. I don't know how the Canadian and American coast guards would react to a migrant ship in the North Atlantic, but I believe that they would have assisted it.
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Completely different scenario. The coast guards involved in this rescue had no role in the other situation. I don't know how the Canadian and American coast guards would react to a migrant ship in the North Atlanta, but I believe that they would have assisted it.
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While the game controller thing is damn funny, there is a case to be made for using off-the-shelf parts for systems that do not require innovative tech. Would a custom controller built specifically for this sub have been safer? It's not like the controller is very big, you bring a couple of (previously tested) backups with you, and if it fails, you use one of those. Same with the ballast, being compact and heavy is 99% of the design spec, custom machining it out of unobtanium is overkill.
If the hull failed, which seems the most likely scenario, the design of the other parts is irrelevant. That part is the one that should have been overengineered to withstand 1.5 or 2 times the pressure it was intended to operate under, and what should have been tested with various unmanned prototypes hundreds of times before sending anyone down.
You're so right. Not to be a nerd, but I just finished Andy Weir's newest book (he's the dude who wrote The Martian), Hail Mary or Project Hail Mary or something, and it goes into a lot of detail that had me convinced off the shelf stuff for these kinds of projects is the smartest way to go.
I get why everyone is focusing on the controller as it seems silly to most but its actually a fairly common practice now a days to use off the shelf controllers for very expensive machines. I know the US military switched to Xbox controllers for some types of remote operated devices that were previously controlled by 'custom' controllers that were costing upwards of $15k each.
No comment on the rest of the vessel's build quality but the controller is definitely not something to focus much attention on.
It's 250k a head to go down there...they could of at least had a backup controller
Better story than 800 immigrants dying on a ship in the med? After being denied to make landfall?
What I heard was they denied requests for landfall or help multiple times from Greece, deciding to try to carry onto Italy etc. Then the captain abandoned ship when the engine started failing and panic rocked the boat so much it capsized in pitch darkness in the middle of the night. They refused help and rescue until it was too late.
"The Thirty Fathom Grave" is episode 104 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on January 10, 1963 on CBS. In this naval-themed episode, the crew of a Navy destroyer hear a mysterious rhythmic noise coming from a sunken submarine
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