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[-] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 210 points 3 months ago

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, Where the great would not be constrained by the small! And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city as well.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 70 points 3 months ago

“Unless that man is an actual laborer, haha, fuck those plebs”

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[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

I'm having mixed feelings. Are we going here or not? On one hand no censoring... On the other hand... No censoring. Also doom, but there's also doom here too.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 92 points 3 months ago

the whole point of the game was to illustrate how dumb libertarians are

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago

Perhaps. But I think I may have figured out their logic....... no bears under water. So they won't have to worry about bear attack while drowning from lack of maintenance

[-] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 15 points 3 months ago

Giant squids are the bears of the ocean

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[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Water bears

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 9 points 3 months ago

lots of leopards though

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[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 25 points 3 months ago

Yes! Everytime anyone says anything about Libertarians I bring up Keene, NH. A Libertarian utopia that was so awesome, Black Bears joined the fun and took over the town.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Grafton, not Keene. Keene did have some free staters, but the cryptocurrency sovereign citizen pedophile kind.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah! Grafton. Got those two mixed up lmao. They cut the towns taxes to zero and couldn't pay the garbage pickup. That brought the bears who proceeded to rule the town.

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[-] merde@sh.itjust.works 96 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because of its narcotic effect at high pressure, nitrogen shouldn’t be breathed by humans at depths below about 60 meters. So, at 200 meters, the breathing mix in the habitat will be 2 percent oxygen and 98 percent helium. But because of its very high thermal conductivity, “we need to heat helium to 31–32 °C to get a normal 21–22 °C internal temperature environment,”

😮

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 40 points 3 months ago

So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 26 points 3 months ago

Hmm... maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect... I think?

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago

What they mean is they will need to use the amount of energy that you would normally put into air to get it to 31° C, but the helium will only get to 21° C. At no point will the helium actually be 31° C.

[-] _lilith@lemmy.world 72 points 3 months ago
[-] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

“I dub thee Sir Phobos, Knight of Mars, beater of ass.”

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[-] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 59 points 3 months ago

Will it be filled to the brim with billionaires so it can also malfunction and we are on time for the annual billionaire sacrifice to the sea gods?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Researchers are rarely rich, despite deserving it more than others.

[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago
[-] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I've ever loved.

[-] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?

Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.

[-] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 9 points 3 months ago

It's not a toy. It makes real cupcakes... with a 40 watt bulb... and there's icing packets. But the secret ingredient is love... Damn it.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago
[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Well, it's just scientists, so Sealab 2021.

Eventually, the techbros will make a cheaper version and add the pod to the end though.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago

as long as they don’t use a logitech controller i’m sure it’ll be fine

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The logitech controller was fine, although it was questionable to be using a bluetooth one.

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[-] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 months ago
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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 3 months ago
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[-] yuki2501@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

And in 2026, deep divers will be searching for datapads to find out what went wrong.

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

"So we found these slugs that produce magic stem cells..."

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[-] GooberEar@lemmy.wtf 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Build them as connectable hexagons. Learn from the insects, they've had a half billion years to figure out what shit works and what shit don't.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sure when in air. Not so much for underwater or really anywhere where they have to deal with a pressure differential, either positive or negative, where large flat sides are detrimental.

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[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 32 points 3 months ago

Very interesting to read, but sounds so astronomically expensive and reliant on zero mistakes in every single aspect of manufacturing every single thing going into the pods, that no one will sustain paying for this shit beyond angel investors.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 months ago

you should read michael chrichton's book sphere. it talks about some of the tom & jerry tier physics and biology disasters that can happen in a deep sea habitat

[-] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yep I own a hardcover of it; fucking fantastic book, and excellent film adaptation.

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[-] itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com 30 points 3 months ago

If your looking for me
You better check under the sea
Cause that is where you'll find me
Underneath the
Sealab, Underneath the water
Sealab, At the bottom of the sea.

About 4 years late, but whatever.

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[-] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 3 months ago

high pressures are scary as shit.

apart from that, there's no sunlight down there. it's basically like living in antarctica.

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[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW

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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago

Space is hard to get to, no gravity, and there's radiation.

Underwater has high pressure, corrosion, and no natural lighting.

When you get an air leak in space, you find the hole and patch it. When you get a leak underwater, you don't have to worry about it at all because it takes care of things in microseconds.

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 months ago

What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago

https://youtu.be/96HP_waLWPw

We never got them working properly here on earth, which isn't great news for a self sustainable moon or Mars colony.

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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago

I have an idea. Let's stick all of the world's billionaires into a submarine and see if lightning strikes twice.

[-] daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

One step closer to SOMA

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Watch our oceans die before your very eyes!

[-] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago

I've been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so... Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?

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