Submarine Archive

  • Things That Can Kill You In the Ocean, Part XII: Sea Drones

    Things That Can Kill You In the Ocean, Part XII: Sea Drones

    So you’re in a submarine, safe beneath the ocean waves. You’re pretty safe, right? Wrong. Apparently DARPA is working on Sea Drones that will follow ships and subs as they make their way across the briny deep, reporting positions and potentially going boom-boom if they feel like it. It’s all concept right now, but it’s [...]

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  • Russians waste more money, lock 6 men away for 105 days in the name of science

    Russians waste more money, lock 6 men away for 105 days in the name of science

    Maybe someday a human will walk on Mars. The last couple of generations has always told their children that they will be the ones to do it, but we're still stuck on this planet. Anyway, 6 crazy Ruskies just emerged from a 1970's Soviet-era testing facility after spending 105 days in isolation to simulate the voyage to Mars. I don't know why some random Russian government spent so much money conducting this probably expensive experiment though. Don't they get the reality TV show Big Brother over there?

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  • Italian company uses RC toy submarines to run cables through sewers

    Italian company uses RC toy submarines to run cables through sewers

    thunder-tiger-neptuneSmart. And a little gross. An Italian company has resorted to using remote-controlled toy submarines to run fiberoptic cable through the sewers of Milan.

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