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Titanic tourist sub goes missing sparking search (www.bbc.com)
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Submersible used to take tourists to view wreck of Titanic goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission.

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[–] 20 points 3 years ago (7 children)

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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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    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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