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Not surprising, the card was filled with... UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!
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They should have built the hull out of SanDisk cards.
I'd go for a mix of 50% sd cards and 50% controllers. Maybe 40/60, science is not decided yet.
Or old school Nokias...
I still have one of those. I use it to split bricks when I'm putting up a wall.
Bricks? I used mine to process diamonds. Cracked them up real good. It still had its shine, too.
Spoiler: Nothing about the big boom or that trip was on it (as designed, lol), but it's cool that it survived.
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.
The tragedy is that more of these rich people don't test that belief against reality.
At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It's only a matter of time.
But they put other people on those rockets, not themselves.
This was a reverse tragedy.
There was a tragedy. One billionaire forcing their child to die
What do you mean "tragic"?
Well, that kid didn't ask to be there, so that's pretty tragic.
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
Define "tragic"
Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.
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.
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.
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.
Edit: Apparently they've recover the files.
New form of key compression unlocked!
Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.
It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.
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.
"Somewhat disappointingly, the images and videos shared in the report were taken in the vicinity of the ROV shop at the Marine Institute"
There, saved you a long read
Gotta love that SD technology. Now if only we could build a sub with it.
Just make the next sub out of SD cards, Nokia 3310 phones, piloted with a Logitech controller.
"and you can buy that exact SD card model for the low, low price of $62.99 on Amazon RIGHT. NOW!!!"
That might not be the weirdest, most awkward product placement I ever saw, but close.
EDIT : for those not seeing it, yeah, the article actually mentions that price and has a direct link to Amazon.
“I don’t travel on potentially doomed subs without these 10 things from amazon, you won’t believe how cheap number 1 is!!”
Tragic? What was tragic about it? It were just some insanely rich doing something insanely stupid: dive in an untested home made tube built from rejected discarded build materials to dive to insane depths to disrupt a protected monument of something which killed thousands.
The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.
Unfortunately it only had older still photos and videos, nothing from the last dive. Looks like they had the camera configured to send the data to the onboard computers and those were smashed into a soild mass, of which, no data was able to be recovered from.
