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The previous booster landed in the golf of Mexico. This starship landed in the Indian ocean a bit west of Australia, it's like 3x deeper.

• eqvinox 2y ago
  ↑ That. For extra context: that "3× deeper" makes costs seriously explode. People do know how to engineer for that depth, but it's a lot of effort and there's pretty much no commercial market. For shallower stuff there's oil rigs, deep-sea cables, seafloor mining, even just tourism… but at some point it just peters out and only research vessels tackle the depth. (source: friend of mine works at a UK university doing deep-sea vehicles)
  • RaoulP 2y ago
    >(source: friend of mine works at a UK university doing deep-sea vehicles) As in he works on their development? That sounds exciting, do you have something like the name of one of the vehicles?
    • eqvinox 2y ago
      > As in he works on their development? Yes, she works on their development. > That sounds exciting, do you have something like the name of one of the vehicles? No vehicle name, but this is the university department/lab: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/facilities/maritime-robotics-instrumentation-laboratory https://www.southampton.ac.uk/research/facilities/maritime-r... (Their vehicles don't even go that deep, but again that was the point I was trying to make… even in research, the very deep stuff is rare and a "big project" that ends up fanned out ⇒ MRIL made only the cameras for a 4km vessel…)