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- news@lemmy.world
Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.
Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.
The guy in this CBS video points out how shitty the sub “seems.” Dude drives the thing with a Madcatz controller!
Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.
That thing is a slapped-together mess.
Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.
I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s
Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.
Looks like I can’t watch that from Canada :(
http://deturl.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fm.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D29co_Hksk6o%26feature%3Dyoutu.be
Around 2:30 mark
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.