Submarine Tech Reaches For Deep Ocean Record 164
disco_tracy writes "US Submarines CEO Bruce Jones and his team have just announced that they've developed new technology for a submersible that could take ocean explorers 36,000 feet deep, to the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana Trench."
WOW! (Score:4, Insightful)
So I'm astonished that (they claim) they'll be able to make a FULL SPHERE of glass as opposed to some puny porthole.
Some questions:
A part (half?) of the sphere will have to be removed to allow people/things in and out (unlike "ecospheres") it can't be seamlessly sealed. Isn't that the most likely place of failure?
I assume there will have to be holes to allow power, cooling/heating, communications right? Another point of failure?
(Actually I read a story where some grad student had figured out a way of transmitting powe/communications THROUGH a submarine's metal hull using sonic waves.)
Where in the world will they test this thing to one and a quarter times the max. pressure? (And I thought engineering standards were to one and a half max.)
Crib notes (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:36,000 feet (Score:0, Insightful)
You're a cock.
Re:11000m for the other 95% of the world. (Score:3, Insightful)
think a little bit about why you think the world should mold itself to your desires.
Dear gods, the irony lobe in my brain is fit to burst.. America's whole international policy seems to be to mold the rest of the world to its desires..