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      2 months ago

      To be fair, at the exact moment he said “All good here” it probably was. It just became very ungood, very quickly.

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    After decades of journalists attaching the suffix “gate” to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as “Oceangate-gate”

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      After some thought, I’ve decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as “Oceangate-gate-gate”

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        It originated from the Watergate scandal iirc. Watergate being the Watergate hotel but I guess water and gate are easy to separate and -gate kind of works as a suffix.

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    Followed shortly by ‘oh shit’ and ‘we dropped two weights’ then ‘guys, it’s getting kind of wet in here…’

    Just kidding, mostly.

    Serious question: how does a submarine know how much it weighs?

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      I assume that the submarine producer gives stats like empty weight from which the current weight can be calculated.

      However, weight isn’t the important thing in a sub. It’s the weight to volume ratio, or buoyancy.

      A sub sinks when buoyancy is negative and rises if the buoyancy is positive.

      There are three common ways to achieve the changing buoyancy: the most simple one is a vessel with positive buoyancy adding droppable weights until the buoyancy is negative.

      Other ways are a neutral buoyancy vessel that uses it’s engine power to push itself up or down. Or a vessel that can change it’s buoyancy by filling up tanks with water (to reduce buoyancy below neutral) and blow them out with air or other gases lighter than water (to raise buoyancy above neutral). A combination of several methods is also possible.