Why isn’t Elon swooping in, offering to build a carbon tunnel to the Titanic (“funding secured”) and calling people pedos along the way? Seems like exactly his cup of tea.
I think his days of pretending to be a good guy are over.
So he can just skip the helping part, just start calling people pedos
He’s busy waging a war on trans
When did he start? Because I haven’t noticed
There’s a great punchline about boys hidden somewhere in there.
He has done it once and cannot be bothered to do the same things over and over again. Rescuing people is a solved problem after all and there is no more challenge in it.
Probably he’s still been saying that stuff but not enough ppl are left on Twitter to realize it
NEXT: Hideo Kojima makes a VR Game that realistically simulates what would be to rescue the Titan, however no player managed to succeed yet, as their submersible also gets stuck in the middle of deep sea, thus also prompting a rescue operation.
Because that tunnel would end up having a Tesla inside of it
One of the most bizarre non-the-onion headlines I have read in a while.
It really is
Hey, it exists! (/c/nottheonion@lemmy.world)
I can’t post under : @millions@kbin.social so this is my reply to his question to you … !nottheonion@lemmy.world exists since 7 days (or more : it’s 1st post is 7 days old)
These links open in the internal browser in Jerboa, so annoying
But the real question is: is it steered by a Steam Controller?
“Great, now that we’re close, use the touch pad to extend the robot arm”
They are doomed.
It’s got a steam deck bolted to the front with controls and readouts.
Steam Deck. Linux. They will need to Bing the correct magic for GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, /etc/default/grub, in order to get rid of spurious interrupts.
I wonder what controller his sub uses
Just to defend this as an engineer (though not one that works with submarines in any capacity), using a video game controller might sound funny, but it could actually make sense vs. using a device of your own creation. They’re highly replaceable, so you have an infinite supply of reliable backups to draw upon. It’s not prone to design flaws in the same way a “homemade” controller would be. OTS devices are often designed to withstand certain conditions or modes of use, such as force or moisture or whatever else you anticipate in your environment. They’re also widely used, so there are troves of publicly available information on them to draw upon. It might seem silly, but if I were building a titanic submarine YOLO ship thing, I’d probably use something similar.
Engineer here, I think the issue is that they used a crappy one and wirelessly. I wouldn’t bet my life on bluetooth.
I mean, the controller could even run out of battery or break down without a backup.
Are you sure they didn’t have spares?
No idea, I’m judt surprised they didn’t even have it plugged.
$30 Logitechs are awful controllers though.
Ask any serious video gamer and they’ll talk your ear off about highly reliable hall-effect sensor joysticks and other such high-reliability parts (Cherry switches, etc. etc.) that kick the ass of cheap potentiometers + dome-rubber style switches (like found in a cheap-ass Logitech).
And such parts are available at… $50 to $80. Choosing a cheap-ass $30 piece of junk isn’t even saving much money.
Can’t argue with that.
This. A lot of people pointed out that the military uses xbox controllers, but xbox controllers are good. Nobody wanted to be the friend who got the Madcatz controller.
Hey the steam controller was kind of a flop but I got one when they went on closeout at like $5 and it’s actually pretty sweet. Very niche but definitely unique.
Yeah, I have one. It was great for very specific games. The problem is that it’s no replacement for a game that is designed for a two joystick game controller experience and it’s no replacement for a mouse and keyboard. It’s a ‘jack of all trades, master of none.’
I preferred the trackpad for aiming in shooters tbh
If it’s a steam controller we’re in real trouble 😂
It runs off of the steam deck
They’re making a new one and calling it the “Steam Quarter-Deck”
“My son calls it an Upper Decker.” Merideth from The Office
Please tell me this site is a joke
This site is not a joke, and nor is the headline.
So, /c/nottheonion? We really need that
You ain’t kidding, that sub his GabeNs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSV_Limiting_Factor
the weird part is that even though it says he has it on that page, if you check Gabe’s wiki page there is literally 0 information on it there.
Here : … !nottheonion@lemmy.world exists since 7 days (or more : it’s 1st post is 7 days old)
Right now lemmy is such an active and vibrant place !
Gaben pls
Rescue operation will happen on Valve Time.
sadly GabeN can only count up to 2
Is it time again to start praying to Lord Gaben?
Are you ready for a miracle?
Had no clue Gaben ran anything besides steam, especially not a company like Inkfish. Pretty cool.
Too bad the Titanic is below 3000 Meters, we know he won’t pass 3
If only they had sunk to 2999 meters 2: episode 2
Best I can do is 2999 meters: alyx
other submersibles can reach 4k meters. Why they say only gaben?
Gabe uses a Steam Deck for the controls instead of that cheap Logitech model. Much more reliable.
Are Angry Upvotes a thing on Lemmy? 'cause you’ve got mine.
What happened to James Cameron’s stuff?
Deepsea Challenger isn’t operational. It’s a decade old and in a museum right now.
It belongs in a museum!
SO DO YOU
That tracks. Surprised he doesn’t have a new one, though.
Perhaps he still could ask those Na’vi to lend some help, you know?
- Cameron doesn’t do what James Cameron does for James Cameron. James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is James Cameron.*
~James Cameron
…huh? Even DSV Alvin is still active. I’m sure there are more.
It’s true that after the overhaul about 10 years ago Alvin can dive to nearly twice the Titanic’s depth, but Alvin and Atlantis are in the Pacific Ocean right now
This thing would be useless in the search effort
I agree. Don’t they need 1-2 deep sea divers or a small robot to go down and connect a winch to pull the sub up?
I’m not sure what deep sea diving refers to, but this is the bottom of the ocean where metal submarines are crushed like tin cans from repeated exposure to these depths.
The Limiting Factor is somehow both the nerdiest and coolest name for that submersible.
Half Life 3? … More like Zero Life 5 I’m afraid.
Crazy to think about these guys sitting in a big tube 4km under water right now with no connection to the outside world.
I wonder if they’ll have to pay the extra minutes?
Technically, I believe they are considered objects at this point.
