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Ships don’t sink in a straight line, knowing where it sank does not give an accurate position for where it rests.
by sitharus 7y ago
Ships don’t sink in a straight line, knowing where it sank does not give an accurate position for where it rests.
- nothingburger 7y agoAgain: Who fucking cares? It was sunk under controlled circumstances. The location of sinking was planned as a disposal effort. It was put down in a place, such that it would come to rest in a zone suitable to render its radioactive payload distant and unreachable. Knowing where it was destroyed on the surface gives a high reliability cone of descent. It goes down from the surface with a degree of drift that will not exceed certain parameters. It would surprise me if they found it on the moon. It would not surprise me if they found it 100 miles from the point it sank.