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IMHO the cause for slow progress is due to most submarine research are restricted and classified as top secret. At the other hand, I wonder why submarine explo
by eugenejen 16y ago
IMHO the cause for slow progress is due to most submarine research are restricted and classified as top secret.
At the other hand, I wonder why submarine exploration of oceans on earth is not regarded as highly as space exploration. Also while there are so many private start-ups focus on commercial space business, what about deep ocean? I know James Cameron's participation. But anybody else?
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoTechnology: Submarines have to withstand hundreds of atmospheres of pressure. Spacecraft? 1.
- burgerbrain 16y agoProfessor Hubert Farnsworth: Good Lord! That's over 5000 atmospheres of pressure! Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand? Professor Hubert Farnsworth: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
- whimsy 16y agoSurely exiting a gravity well causes the spacecraft to experience an enormous amount of pressure opposite to the direction of its travel.
- burgerbrain 16y agoMany different forces for sure, but I doubt that acceleration through the atmosphere causes a uniform pressure over the entire craft. In fact, would you get the opposote effect along the sides of the craft, where air is moving fast but parallel to the surface?
- lamby 16y agoYou mean zero :)
- burgerbrain 16y agoNegative one perhaps? It doesn't have to withstand a pressure, but it does have to contain a pressure. Kind of opposite-ish.
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- lukeschlather 16y agoOnly if you build it in space.
- hugh3 16y agoThe weird thing about the design shown is that it really doesn't look particularly strong. Is that a glass bubble cockpit? A traditional submarine is a huge steel cylinder. I thought there was a good reason for that.
- timtadh 16y agoFrom and article I read yesterday (I believe it was in wired) the "bubble" is solid quartz.