KillerTofu@lemmy.world
on 04 Jan 2025 23:31
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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.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 00:15
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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.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip
on 05 Jan 2025 00:27
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the whole point of the game was to illustrate how dumb libertarians are
Eldritch@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 01:46
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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
hedgehog@ttrpg.network
on 05 Jan 2025 03:18
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Giant squids are the bears of the ocean
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:35
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Hell yeah they are. Them’s my boys.
pupbiru@aussie.zone
on 05 Jan 2025 04:40
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lots of leopards though
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
on 05 Jan 2025 16:09
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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.
BearGun@ttrpg.network
on 06 Jan 2025 05:55
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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.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
on 05 Jan 2025 04:07
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Yes! Everytime anyone says anything about Libertarians I bring up Keene, NH. A Libertarian utopia that was so awesome, Black Bears joined the fun and took over the town.
Grafton, not Keene. Keene did have some free staters, but the cryptocurrency sovereign citizen pedophile kind.
TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
on 05 Jan 2025 05:53
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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.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works
on 05 Jan 2025 20:12
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I don’t remember being able to play Doom in BioShock… 🤔
mox@lemmy.sdf.org
on 05 Jan 2025 00:26
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“Oxygen.”
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 07 Jan 2025 02:58
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Lubricant is required
Ioughttamow@fedia.io
on 05 Jan 2025 00:35
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“Unless that man is an actual laborer, haha, fuck those plebs”
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
on 06 Jan 2025 12:01
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Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his chattel property’s brow?
merde@sh.itjust.works
on 04 Jan 2025 23:39
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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,”
😮
tdawg@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 00:14
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So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
on 05 Jan 2025 01:06
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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?
FeloniousPunk@lemmy.today
on 05 Jan 2025 01:24
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If the original SeaLab tests in the 60s were any indication, YES. Check out Scott Carpenter’s voice on this recording with LBJ.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wkh6s
turmacar@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 20:46
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Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.
RandomStickman@fedia.io
on 05 Jan 2025 02:01
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BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
on 05 Jan 2025 19:43
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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.
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.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world
on 04 Jan 2025 23:53
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MintyFresh@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 00:39
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Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I’ve ever loved.
fjordbasa@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 03:33
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Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?
Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com
on 05 Jan 2025 04:39
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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.
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
on 05 Jan 2025 07:40
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Well hello, consumer, yes hello consumer bop bop bop bop be da bup bebop cola!
mctoasterson@reddthat.com
on 09 Jan 2025 01:58
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And I say to myself… I need exact change…
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
on 05 Jan 2025 14:48
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Dart in the neck!
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:37
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I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
FanciestPants@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 04:31
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Read headline, music immediately started in my head, “if you’re looking for me…”
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
on 05 Jan 2025 07:36
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You better check under the sea!
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 07:20
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I love me some Mingus Dew
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:36
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Only if they inaugurate Vanguard on the day of the Feast of Alvis.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
on 05 Jan 2025 00:13
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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.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip
on 05 Jan 2025 00:32
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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
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
on 05 Jan 2025 01:06
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Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.
chuymatt@startrek.website
on 05 Jan 2025 02:23
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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.
treadful@lemmy.zip
on 05 Jan 2025 02:02
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Many people said the same things about the ISS, I’m sure.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
on 05 Jan 2025 02:30
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What government is interested in this project. Please name one.
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 05 Jan 2025 02:36
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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@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 04:34
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Well, they gotta get those angels somehow…
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
on 05 Jan 2025 01:07
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What happens in the abyss stays in the abyss.
GooberEar@lemmy.wtf
on 05 Jan 2025 02:01
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Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they’ve had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don’t.
potustheplant@feddit.nl
on 05 Jan 2025 03:46
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Did you mean “truncated icosahedron”? A hexagon is 2d.
UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 05:36
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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.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 04:14
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The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you’re gridding it.
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.
billwashere@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 02:17
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So Bioshock….
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 04:14
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as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 05:18
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The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com
on 05 Jan 2025 09:18
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I now wonder if part of the reason that all happened is because the controller battery died, so they couldn’t ascend.
theneverfox@pawb.social
on 05 Jan 2025 10:48
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Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters
Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com
on 06 Jan 2025 00:49
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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.
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.
theneverfox@pawb.social
on 06 Jan 2025 11:28
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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
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 17:42
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The F710 isn’t Bluetooth; it uses its own dongle.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 18:01
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Blackout@fedia.io
on 05 Jan 2025 01:47
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I have an idea. Let's stick all of the world's billionaires into a submarine and see if lightning strikes twice.
Rhaedas@fedia.io
on 05 Jan 2025 01:49
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Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there's radiation.
Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.
When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don't have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
on 05 Jan 2025 03:44
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Just like with space you can build in redundancies though. You don’t have to be all Titan about it.
The trouble with all these schemes is that it’s totally contrary to poweful real world trends. The surface of the Earth has an overwhelming abundance of rural land that is incredibly hospitable to life. And these places are depopulating because people prefer living in cities. How are you gonna get people to move to the bottom of the sea, or Mars, if they don’t even want to move to West Virginia?
echodot@feddit.uk
on 05 Jan 2025 05:21
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People don’t really want to live in the cities they just want to live where they can get a job. Largely rural communities don’t really have an overabundance of employment opportunities, tend to have crap internet, and most of the properties are already owned by rich people who want a second home, so house prices are completely insane.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 05:24
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The trouble with these commenters is that they don’t read the articles. This one isn’t at all about getting people to move underwater, it’s very specifically about habitats for ocean researchers to live in, rather than spending enormous amounts of time decompressing after relatively short dives.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee
on 05 Jan 2025 08:12
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Lawnman23@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 06:08
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“I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”
King3d@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 08:47
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Chopper Dave!
Bacano@lemmy.world
on 05 Jan 2025 23:13
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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…
axum@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 06 Jan 2025 00:21
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Man why did I have to go so far down to find this one? Lol
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml
on 06 Jan 2025 05:38
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Eggers, sir
karpintero@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 05:44
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Mustache on or off?
BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 06:27
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Too bad
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:34
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SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net
on 05 Jan 2025 14:32
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I guess the people in charge haven’t read the rifters trilogy. I don’t trust any of ‘em, but at least we already have a pandemic; they probably can’t make it worse.
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.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 05:12
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Ocean horizons 2.0 I hope.
Elon is probably the only superhero who could actually go there an show them all! Definitely not just any rich guy could do it.
fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
on 06 Jan 2025 05:59
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This is for the oil and gas industry.
Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.
Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:31
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Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!
ANT_EEY_ANKS@lemmings.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:46
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Ok but why? Why would anybody chose to live confined underwater? If you like airtight containers so much just build a bunker
Why would anybody chose to live confined underwater?
Why would anyone choose to live confined in space? Idk, but the ISS still exists.
ANT_EEY_ANKS@lemmings.world
on 07 Jan 2025 08:59
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The ISS isn’t some for-profit silicon valley bro venture.
ANT_EEY_ANKS@lemmings.world
on 06 Jan 2025 11:47
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Ok but why?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
on 06 Jan 2025 12:00
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If only they explained their reasoning somewhere… all these headlines are so inconsiderate.
ANT_EEY_ANKS@lemmings.world
on 06 Jan 2025 12:01
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It all read like technosolutionist mumbo-jumbo
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
on 06 Jan 2025 12:16
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What part of the opening rationale was incomprehensible?
“With current diving at 150 to 200 meters, you can only get 10 minutes of work completed, followed by 6 hours of decompression. With our underwater habitats we’ll be able to do seven years’ worth of work in 30 days with shorter decompression time. More than 90 percent of the ocean’s biodiversity lives within 200 meters’ depth and at the shorelines, and we only know about 20 percent of it.”
ANT_EEY_ANKS@lemmings.world
on 06 Jan 2025 12:19
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Yeah that’s idiotic. What would a human see that a robot can’t?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
on 06 Jan 2025 13:08
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Humans are the ones tooling and retooling these units for specific purposes, which can be done far more efficiently in situ in an underwater habitation. Along with any other human activities that will be occurring, such as immediate study in a dedicated lab facility.
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
on 06 Jan 2025 11:50
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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.
Narauko@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 13:16
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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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 13:58
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I am probably a minority, but I think it’s the funniest of the early Adult Swim originals.
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com
on 06 Jan 2025 21:04
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The feng shui episode was the best one.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world
on 06 Jan 2025 22:26
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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.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 06 Jan 2025 15:01
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threaded - newest
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.
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.
the whole point of the game was to illustrate how dumb libertarians are
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
Water bears
Giant squids are the bears of the ocean
Hell yeah they are. Them’s my boys.
lots of leopards though
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.
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.
Yes! Everytime anyone says anything about Libertarians I bring up Keene, NH. A Libertarian utopia that was so awesome, Black Bears joined the fun and took over the town.
Grafton, not Keene. Keene did have some free staters, but the cryptocurrency sovereign citizen pedophile kind.
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.
Holy shit they made SCP-2875 a real thing
I don’t remember being able to play Doom in BioShock… 🤔
“Oxygen.”
Lubricant is required
“Unless that man is an actual laborer, haha, fuck those plebs”
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his chattel property’s brow?
😮
So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?
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?
If the original SeaLab tests in the 60s were any indication, YES. Check out Scott Carpenter’s voice on this recording with LBJ. www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wkh6s
Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.
They definitely sound funny even pressurised hehe
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.
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.
Sealab 2025?
Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I’ve ever loved.
Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?
Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.
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.
Well hello, consumer, yes hello consumer bop bop bop bop be da bup bebop cola!
And I say to myself… I need exact change…
Dart in the neck!
I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
Read headline, music immediately started in my head, “if you’re looking for me…”
You better check under the sea!
I love me some Mingus Dew
Only if they inaugurate Vanguard on the day of the Feast of Alvis.
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.
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
Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.
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.
Many people said the same things about the ISS, I’m sure.
What government is interested in this project. Please name one.
Sure, but space habitats are far far more useful than underwater ones
There is definitively no shortage of challenges in orbit
Well, they gotta get those angels somehow…
What happens in the abyss stays in the abyss.
Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they’ve had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don’t.
Did you mean “truncated icosahedron”? A hexagon is 2d.
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.
The hexagon is only stronger than a circle if you’re gridding it.
EDIT (stronger for the TOTAL material used)
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.
So Bioshock….
Well, it’s just scientists, so Sealab 2021.
Eventually, the techbros will make a cheaper version and add the pod to the end though.
Pod 6? I hate Pod 6!
Total suck pod.
as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine
The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.
I now wonder if part of the reason that all happened is because the controller battery died, so they couldn’t ascend.
Nah, the shell cracked, pretty much instant death. Dodgy tech works until it doesn’t, only the first critical failure matters
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.
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.
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
The F710 isn’t Bluetooth; it uses its own dongle.
Still.
Would you kindly…
I have an idea. Let's stick all of the world's billionaires into a submarine and see if lightning strikes twice.
Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there's radiation.
Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.
When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don't have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.
Just like with space you can build in redundancies though. You don’t have to be all Titan about it.
The trouble with all these schemes is that it’s totally contrary to poweful real world trends. The surface of the Earth has an overwhelming abundance of rural land that is incredibly hospitable to life. And these places are depopulating because people prefer living in cities. How are you gonna get people to move to the bottom of the sea, or Mars, if they don’t even want to move to West Virginia?
People don’t really want to live in the cities they just want to live where they can get a job. Largely rural communities don’t really have an overabundance of employment opportunities, tend to have crap internet, and most of the properties are already owned by rich people who want a second home, so house prices are completely insane.
The trouble with these commenters is that they don’t read the articles. This one isn’t at all about getting people to move underwater, it’s very specifically about habitats for ocean researchers to live in, rather than spending enormous amounts of time decompressing after relatively short dives.
Which part of the article mentions any of that?
West Virginia is the very opposite of barren, just poverty stricken. Nevada would be a better example.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ca453082-a9ea-438c-8b8f-8323d157b029.png">
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.
Wow, that’s way more detail than I ever want to remember.
I wish I could forget.
If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW
Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0fd1f425-0e2a-48d3-82f1-eb633337037c.gif">
“I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”
Chopper Dave!
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…
Man why did I have to go so far down to find this one? Lol
Eggers, sir
Mustache on or off?
Too bad
Vanguard is now under Martian Law!
Bizzaro I love you bizzaro!
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?
Researchers are rarely rich, despite deserving it more than others.
So basically Rapture
I was thinking more like PATHOS-II.
I guess the people in charge haven’t read the rifters trilogy. I don’t trust any of ‘em, but at least we already have a pandemic; they probably can’t make it worse.
www.goodreads.com/series/43561-rifters
What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?
youtu.be/96HP_waLWPw
We never got them working properly here on earth, which isn’t great news for a self sustainable moon or Mars colony.
Wasn’t that mostly due to mismanagement rather than any technological hurdle?
Kinda both. It was a useful experiment, but bacterial contamination doomed the thing from day one.
Also the trees got too weak with no wind or something
He made too much trouble in that bubble
high pressures are scary as shit.
apart from that, there’s no sunlight down there. it’s basically like living in antarctica.
Will there be penguins?
Good thing that doesn’t cause any pr-
livescience.com/52467-why-antarctica-fuels-excess…
theweek.com/crime/antarctica-sexual-harassment
Oh.
Billionaires first
Titan II: Back for more billionaires
Ocean is tough. Tougher than floating cities. Which are more realistic as real habitable environment.
I vote for Stanford torus stations in various L points.
Or, naturally, Mars.
Before that, of course, there are plenty of locations on Earth hard to live in, but not as hard as underwater domes. They should try that.
One step closer to SOMA
i legit thought this was some wacky futurist article from 10 years ago that someone posted for fun
I’ve been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so… Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?
And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.
Maybe the pact holds longer in those silos 😆
“So we found these slugs that produce magic stem cells…”
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.
Ocean horizons 2.0 I hope.
Elon is probably the only superhero who could actually go there an show them all! Definitely not just any rich guy could do it.
This is for the oil and gas industry.
Ain’t nobody paying for an underwater habitat for researchers when all researchers do at depth is take photos and samples, which can be done by an ROV.
Oil and Gas OTOH need deep see divers to do welding and other maintenance all the time.
Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!
Ok but why? Why would anybody chose to live confined underwater? If you like airtight containers so much just build a bunker
Why would anyone choose to live confined in space? Idk, but the ISS still exists.
The ISS isn’t some for-profit silicon valley bro venture.
Ok but why?
If only they explained their reasoning somewhere… all these headlines are so inconsiderate.
It all read like technosolutionist mumbo-jumbo
What part of the opening rationale was incomprehensible?
Yeah that’s idiotic. What would a human see that a robot can’t?
Humans are the ones tooling and retooling these units for specific purposes, which can be done far more efficiently in situ in an underwater habitation. Along with any other human activities that will be occurring, such as immediate study in a dedicated lab facility.
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About 4 years late, but whatever.
The jerks in Pod Six made you late, didn’t they?
Once again, your stupidity has killed us!
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.
I am probably a minority, but I think it’s the funniest of the early Adult Swim originals.
The feng shui episode was the best one.
The Feast of Alvis is my favorite.
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 best show on Netflix
Subnautica vibes.
i did that in vashj’ir in wow in 2010
A friend of mine has just broken the record of 100 days living under water. He is aiming for 120 days.
My mate Paul…
Rudiger actually.
That’s a face
There are plenty faces if you look for them!