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[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Not surprising, the card was filled with... UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!

[–] caveman8000@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 41 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.

[–] ook@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 12 hours ago

I'd go for a mix of 50% sd cards and 50% controllers. Maybe 40/60, science is not decided yet.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I'm putting up a wall.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

What do you mean "tragic"?

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 21 points 11 hours ago

Well, that kid didn't ask to be there, so that's pretty tragic.

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require "some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements" to be tragic.

To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Define "tragic"

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I'd say "expected" might be a more fitting word.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Spoiler: Nothing about the big boom or that trip was on it (as designed, lol), but it's cool that it survived.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 70 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (8 children)

Tragic?

Try "predictable"

Please watch the Netflix documentary if you havent.

The sub was never meant for that depth and they knew it.

They could literally hear the carbon fibers snapping every dive.

They had to retire an entire chassis because it failed at similar depths.

Nahh, the tragedy is rich people think they are better than physics itself.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

The tragedy is that more of these rich people don't test that belief against reality.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 16 hours ago

At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It's only a matter of time.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The main issue with the Titan wasn't as much the depth as it was cyclic loading

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago

No, it was entirely the depth. They tested it in the lab and saw many failures but never changed the design.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think it’s more like what are the chances it fails while we’re in it? Fuck it.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Considering that is basically the only time it could fail, I would say the chances were pretty high.

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 34 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, more like great promo material for the camera that survived the whole mess mostly intact.

Too bad they dropped the ball by not having the decryption keys for the actual video on the card.

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

New form of key compression unlocked!

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Why? It wasn't there submersible, their product wasn't responsible for its destruction and frankly there is very little in the way of public sympathy.

The product is not even rated as waterproof and yet it's survived months at the bottom of the ocean after having survived a destructive implosion.

That's hella marketing.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The marketing is more for the submersible camera that survived, just like it was designed to do, the SD card was just inside the camera and no water even touched it. I don't think the SD card should be getting any credit.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I know but marketing is marketing. It doesn't really have to make any sense.

If the Xbox controller had survived I'm sure Microsoft would have made big of that even though it's basically irrelevant to the product.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

They didn't even use an Xbox controller, they cheaped out and used an ancient Logitech clone

[–] Ronno@feddit.nl 9 points 20 hours ago

Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago

That even a depth rated camera is broken can easily explained with the point that the implosion produced shock waves with pressure spikes easily exceeding the official ratings of the camera.

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