Small craft, powerful currents, incredible pressure; the odds of even finding the vessel are slim to none. The ghosts of the Titanic resent intrusion of their peace.
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There are certain activities that I would never participate in. One would be hot air ballooning, seems like it would be terrifying if something went wrong up there.
Another would be voluntarily boarding a deep dive submarine.
Swimming with sharks would be another, but I'm sure I've already done that without realizing it.
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alien observer wrote:
Small craft, powerful currents, incredible pressure; the odds of even finding the vessel are slim to none. The ghosts of the Titanic resent intrusion of their peace.
It's very unlikely that the sub is just randomly floating 5,000 feet down. It's either gone all the way to the bottom, or it has surfaced and they just haven't spotted it yet.
Although with each passing hour the chance that the sub is on the surface waiting to be spotted gets less and less.
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Well What Do You Know wrote:
alien observer wrote:
Small craft, powerful currents, incredible pressure; the odds of even finding the vessel are slim to none. The ghosts of the Titanic resent intrusion of their peace.
It's very unlikely that the sub is just randomly floating 5,000 feet down. It's either gone all the way to the bottom, or it has surfaced and they just haven't spotted it yet.
Although with each passing hour the chance that the sub is on the surface waiting to be spotted gets less and less.
I bet it’s either gone all the way down or it has surfaced or it is suspended at some depth in between or it has somehow launched into outer space, with no other possible possibilities.
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Well What Do You Know wrote:
alien observer wrote:
Small craft, powerful currents, incredible pressure; the odds of even finding the vessel are slim to none. The ghosts of the Titanic resent intrusion of their peace.
It's very unlikely that the sub is just randomly floating 5,000 feet down. It's either gone all the way to the bottom, or it has surfaced and they just haven't spotted it yet.
Although with each passing hour the chance that the sub is on the surface waiting to be spotted gets less and less.
My understanding is that the sub is sealed shut from the outside, so does that mean they could run out of oxygen even if it has been on surface? That would be a terrible way to go.
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randomist wrote:
Well What Do You Know wrote:
It's very unlikely that the sub is just randomly floating 5,000 feet down. It's either gone all the way to the bottom, or it has surfaced and they just haven't spotted it yet.
Although with each passing hour the chance that the sub is on the surface waiting to be spotted gets less and less.
I bet it’s either gone all the way down or it has surfaced or it is suspended at some depth in between or it has somehow launched into outer space, with no other possible possibilities.
You forgot time travel
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Trollminator wrote:
randomist wrote:
I bet it’s either gone all the way down or it has surfaced or it is suspended at some depth in between or it has somehow launched into outer space, with no other possible possibilities.
You forgot time travel
That's what happened, they went back to warn the captain about the iceberg.
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Trollminator wrote:
Well What Do You Know wrote:
It's very unlikely that the sub is just randomly floating 5,000 feet down. It's either gone all the way to the bottom, or it has surfaced and they just haven't spotted it yet.
Although with each passing hour the chance that the sub is on the surface waiting to be spotted gets less and less.
My understanding is that the sub is sealed shut from the outside, so does that mean they could run out of oxygen even if it has been on surface? That would be a terrible way to go.
Yes. Even if they are floating on the surface they will run out of oxygen unless they are found before that happens.
However, the boat knows where the sub was when they lost communication. So if from that point the sub was somehow able to float to the surface, it should have been found by now.
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bah. wrote:
joedlrt wrote:
Don’t spend loads of taxpayer money to try to save a couple of multimillionaire rich guys on a high priced joy ride.
That’s a silly argument. I’m sure the families of the billionaires would be happy to agree to pay for their rescue.
Not their wives. If they stay missing, they get it all.
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rojo wrote:
Is this BS or reason for hope?It depends on exactly what they mean by "banging".
Is it clearly hammer against metal kind of banging? Or just some unidentifiable noise that someone decided to describe as banging?
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This is all a promotion stunt for Meg 2.
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This sub relied on Elon Musk's Starlink.
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rojo wrote:
Is this BS or reason for hope?The noises that were reported were investigated but nothing turned up. Here is something from the US Coast Guard, and I heard the same summary just now on BBC World News, for that matter:
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Hare wrote:
This is all a promotion stunt for Meg 2.
I thought about that. While it's probably not true in this case, one of these days some rich guy will pay big bucks to fake an "accident" like this, just as a publicity stunt.
5 people x $250,000 = $1.25 Million, which is nothing to a billionaire who felt like doing something crazy.
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seattle prattle wrote:
rojo wrote:
Is this BS or reason for hope?The noises that were reported were investigated but nothing turned up. Here is something from the US Coast Guard, and I heard the same summary just now on BBC World News, for that matter:
The reports talk about the noises heard every 30 minutes, quite regularly for what is now hours. And not surprising, all experts had said that would be the one way to be "found" so it would be expected that they would do this. But picking this up with listening devices and then actually locating the source are two different things. I imagine they are trying to spin it down by matching from different listening sites, but it still feels like finding a needle in a very dark haystack.
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signs of life but only that wrote:
seattle prattle wrote:
The noises that were reported were investigated but nothing turned up. Here is something from the US Coast Guard, and I heard the same summary just now on BBC World News, for that matter:
The reports talk about the noises heard every 30 minutes, quite regularly for what is now hours. And not surprising, all experts had said that would be the one way to be "found" so it would be expected that they would do this. But picking this up with listening devices and then actually locating the source are two different things. I imagine they are trying to spin it down by matching from different listening sites, but it still feels like finding a needle in a very dark haystack.
You're sources must be different than mine because I'm not seeing the 30 minute interval between banging episodes. In fact, I've read the coverage on NY Times, the Coast Guard Report, and others, and none mention anything about the signal being picked up in the 30 minute intervals, and that would certainly be a major detail.
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BBC and daily mail online think guardian as well but not sure
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