So basically Rapture
I was thinking more like PATHOS-II.
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,” says Rick Goddard, director of engineering at Deep. “This creates a humid atmosphere, so porous materials become a breeding ground for mold”.
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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.
So everyone is gonna sound like mice when they get crushed under the weight of the ocean?
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?
If the original SeaLab tests in the 60s were any indication, YES. Check out Scott Carpenter’s voice on this recording with LBJ. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3wkh6s
Love the horribly confused operator trying to fix problems with her equipment before putting the call through to the president.
Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.
You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.
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.
“Oxygen.”
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.
the whole point of the game was to illustrate how dumb libertarians are
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
Giant squids are the bears of the ocean
Hell yeah they are. Them’s my boys.
lots of leopards though
Water bears
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Holy shit they made SCP-2875 a real thing
Grafton, not Keene. Keene did have some free staters, but the cryptocurrency sovereign citizen pedophile kind.
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I don’t remember being able to play Doom in BioShock… 🤔
“Unless that man is an actual laborer, haha, fuck those plebs”
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his chattel property’s brow?
I love me some Mingus Dew
Read headline, music immediately started in my head, “if you’re looking for me…”
You better check under the sea!
Lol, that show is among the stupidest things I’ve ever loved.
Sparks: … would you ever put your brain in a robot body?
Murphy: Why? I like my body. Ha, I love my body.
I want to be an Adrienne Barbeaubot!
Well hello, consumer, yes hello consumer bop bop bop bop be da bup bebop cola!
And I say to myself… I need exact change…
Dart in the neck!
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.
I’ve been playing lots of Oxygen not Included, so… Yeah good luck, what could go wrong?
The trouble with all these schemes is that it’s totally contrary to poweful real world trends. The surface of the Earth has an overwhelming abundance of rural land that is incredibly hospitable to life. And these places are depopulating because people prefer living in cities. How are you gonna get people to move to the bottom of the sea, or Mars, if they don’t even want to move to West Virginia?
Which part of the article mentions any of that?
People don’t really want to live in the cities they just want to live where they can get a job. Largely rural communities don’t really have an overabundance of employment opportunities, tend to have crap internet, and most of the properties are already owned by rich people who want a second home, so house prices are completely insane.
The trouble with these commenters is that they don’t read the articles. This one isn’t at all about getting people to move underwater, it’s very specifically about habitats for ocean researchers to live in, rather than spending enormous amounts of time decompressing after relatively short dives.
i legit thought this was some wacky futurist article from 10 years ago that someone posted for fun
One step closer to SOMA
Ocean is tough. Tougher than floating cities. Which are more realistic as real habitable environment.
I vote for Stanford torus stations in various L points.
Or, naturally, Mars.
Before that, of course, there are plenty of locations on Earth hard to live in, but not as hard as underwater domes. They should try that.
Billionaires first
Titan II: Back for more billionaires
high pressures are scary as shit.
apart from that, there’s no sunlight down there. it’s basically like living in antarctica.
Good thing that doesn’t cause any pr-
https://www.livescience.com/52467-why-antarctica-fuels-excess-drinking.html
https://theweek.com/crime/antarctica-sexual-harassment
Oh.
Will there be penguins?
If anything goes slightly wrong I die instantly you say? I need to sign up NOW
Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.
What happened to biodomes? Did the Pauly Shore movie ruin the concept?
He made too much trouble in that bubble
We never got them working properly here on earth, which isn’t great news for a self sustainable moon or Mars colony.
Wasn’t that mostly due to mismanagement rather than any technological hurdle?
Kinda both. It was a useful experiment, but bacterial contamination doomed the thing from day one.
Also the trees got too weak with no wind or something
The episode where he tells Jonathan Brandis about condoms remains to this day the cringiest thing I have ever seen on a TV show. By far.
Wow, that’s way more detail than I ever want to remember.
I guess the people in charge haven’t read the rifters trilogy. I don’t trust any of ‘em, but at least we already have a pandemic; they probably can’t make it worse.
