Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.

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The guy in this CBS video points out how shitty the sub “seems.” Dude drives the thing with a Madcatz controller!

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Jesus Christ, in reading about this, I had been imagining a sleek, high-tech marvel of engineering.

That thing is a slapped-together mess.

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Pretty sure the middle is just PVC pipe from the mix-and-match pipe aisle at Home Depot.

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I would pay $250k to go down in a sub with parts sourced from home Depot /s

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7 points

Just being bolted into that thing is nightmare fuel.

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4 points

Looks like I can’t watch that from Canada :(

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There’s nothing wrong with that at all.

The US military literally uses Xbox controllers for a lot of their drones and tech.

It’s kind of a rare move by the Pentagon of actually spend smartly.

Why spend millions on R&D to develop something that already exists and has been iterated based on massive operator feedback a dozen times over decades? It’s literally a platform that has been designed and honed to operate vehicles of every shape and size.

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