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"
I’ve never understood why gate is used as a suffix in this way.
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.
Now... Which dialogue choice did he take?
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"All good here"
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"All good here" (Lie)
To be fair, at the exact moment he said "All good here" it probably was. It just became very ungood, very quickly.
The first one that guy was a genuine idiot.
It was, infact, not all good there.
James Earl Jones
:(
If subnautica taught me anything, he voiced the actual sub.
Nah, I'll just watch Iron Lung, thanks.
Thanks, I hate it
All good here 👍💥
It was good
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?
Explosive decompression is almost instantaneous at that depth. They wouldn't have had a chance to even blink.
Implosive compression?
Explosive decompression
Doubly backwards
Wouldn't it have happened so fast that they never even registered the pain of being crushed? Like, the signal from the body never even reached the brain, it was so fast.
So fast they'd not even be able to register what was happening. Not a bad way to go.
I'll take dying in my sleep for 100 Alex.
No joke, I was in the hospital with a heart attack back in January, waiting on my stent.
Woke up at 6 AM and was fiddling on my phone such as you do. Nurse comes in:
"Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
"Um... thank you? I'm not sure what to do with that information..."
I never really got the “heart stop = dead” thing like yes, if you’re heart stops you’re going to die, but even when someone is beheaded, they are still conscious enough for a few seconds to blink their eyes in response to questions. It’s when the electrical signals in your brain stop that you’re actually dead, not your heart.
Yup! I love the whole pro life "abortion stops a beating heart!" thing. The heart doesn't really mean much, you can make a heart beat in a petrie dish, that doesn't make it "alive".
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/02/stem-cell-research-heart-disease-long-qt
Yeah, it was definitely intended as ~~humor~~ an attempt at levity.
Yeah, the ocean was decompressed by a tiny bit..
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.
Amazing how intact the back half is given, you know, explosive decompression.
When a car crashes head first into a brick wall, the rear bumper is usually salvageable.
Actually this is the opposite of explosive decompression.
Implosive compression.
Yes, but we required the answer in the form of a question. So, no points for you.
I think the rear portion was more solid, so just not as many hollow portions to collapse.