• puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Their business strategy will be releasing another rendered picture every six months to bring in new investors and inevitably after few years they will ethier go bankrupt or become another yacht company that will call itself “yacht market disruptor” or “the most innovative yacht company”.

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      or they just the psyop to cover up a new class 9f military submarine being build, u cant hide a drydock from satelites but u can lie about what u building there

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    I’m sure it will be a submarine*
    *maximum operational depth 2 meters from surface to cabin, and must have it’s conning tower, bridge, and snorkel completely exposed at all time

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      Or, seeing as it’s billionaire bullshit, it will be an ecological disaster. What do you want to offer for the odds that it will have shit navigation, and throws out pings every 3 seconds if submerged? Goodbye local wildlife, recreational diving, and all other activities taking place underwater.

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        Not really, but it will be good enough to get some affluenza fuck to drop $2bil on it

        according to their official page they do have it specced out for 4 weeks of fully submerged operation with a max depth of 250 meters. However, literally none of this is real as it’s just a concept model without real engineering or a prototype built, so the chances of it meeting such specs upon delivery of the final product are… whatever the fuck you feel like they are. Anyone can put whatever numbers they want on a concept model, feasibility be damned.

        • For non military or explorative purposes there is absolutely no reason to go that deep. The “submarine experience” at 50m is the same as at 250m. And it smells terribly, because recycling sweaty air only goes that far.

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          It can be submerged but it can’t cruise on batteries for 4 weeks. It’ll have to put it’s snorkel up.

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    Meh, I’ve seen a few of these pop up and get articles written about them over the years. They usually disappear soon after. Probably just trying to scam money from Investors.

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      US Subs has offered these for decades and they’re a legit commercial submarine firm. I’m not sure anyone actually wants to buy them.

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        I read on a pop sci magazine years ago that “this is not the first time we have offered a design, but nobody was willing to buy one so it didn’t get built”

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        Unless it’s a nuke sub that lets your rich ass just disappear under the water I don’t see the point. Cruising around under the surface with a snorkel up on diesel engines just seems like a straight downgrade. Why even go out of your bunker.

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          Why even go out of your bunker.

          Beach litter and run, seal clubbing and, more importantly, getting away from pesky laws

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            Sure, but you can do that on a yacht just as effectively and get a sun tan while you’re at it.

            Maybe their proposed market is evil albino billionaires. I think only Bera Ivanishvili qualifies.

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        It may be closer to “hope someone is willing to waste $20 billion on one” and then nobody does so it doesn’t get built.

        But if you look at all the crap saudi arabia is doing, the chance that they succeed in selling it may not be zero

        Your right, there are plenty of insecure people from all levels of wealth.

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      The title of this article really confused me because I’ve never hard of this company before.

      I thought ol’ mate migaloo (the albino Humpback whale) was swimming around fucking up super superyachts.

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    I’ve never served on a sub, but I’ve seen videos, and “luxury” is probably the last thing that comes to mind in relation to submarines.

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      Unironically, yes, that probably is what it’s for. I wouldn’t be surprised if Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg are excavating under sea cliffs in Lānaʻi as we speak.

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        New Zealand, there’s a billionaire commune there that’s been robbery criticized for bunker building and pay to stay passports.

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            There is a one-time upfront payment of $55,000, plus an ongoing annual ground rent of $1,091 per bunker. Bunkers are provided in their as-is condition, without interior improvements, equipment or furnishings, ready for your outfitting.

            How is this a “billionaire commune”, when the price is a fraction of a standard 2-bedroom house or even a motorhome, and pretty much everyone can move in?

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        Because you’re filthy rich and want to let all those pesky peasants know how much more valuable your rich life is, so much you can literally “survive underwater” while they suffer on the surface

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        It has windows.

        Clarification: the bogus AI images they’ve got have windows in the viewing gallery. It’s all bullshit though - it features the images from SAFE that are allso bullshit but keep popping up in various articles, notably* the MRI room.

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          Even if there are windows they might as well not be there because it will be pitch dark all the time. And any light you shine will reveal… nothing.

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            Not so. You should really look at the info before commenting lol.

            “It’s got no windows!” - there are windows pretty clearly visible in the renders.

            “There’s no light down there!” - it tops out at 250m, light reaches about 800m.

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              Ha, fair enough, although I’m not reading any article about an idea this silly. I still don’t want to go on any holiday where I can’t leave the hotel.

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                That just means you’re commenting on something without knowing anything about it, and so far everything you’ve commented has been incorrect?

                It comes with two boats, jetskis, a helipad, and the ability to surface. You’re not trapped in a hotel with no windows. It’s not pitch black. You have ways to leave. It would have taken less time to learn this by reading the article than it would have taken to type this bollocks.

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                  Ah, I’m sorry, you caught me, I made a flippant comment about a submarine that doesn’t exist. Thank you for enlightening me so graciously.

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      Let’s tear this apart.

      Length overall: 165.8 m Beam: 23.0 m Draft: 8.6 m

      Not a nautical engineer, but those seem to be comparable to known military craft. That’s probably a decent envelope for a sub carrying ordinance and full crew. So, lots of free space for a pleasure craft.

      Range: approx. 15.000 km

      To pump these numbers, that’s likely surface cruising at some optimal speed. We can safely say this isn’t a nuclear sub, since that would be something to boast: your “range” is really “how much food do you have?” since that runs out first.

      Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks

      This one’s tricky. There are ways to generate O2 without electricity. But the rest of your environmental controls like heat, light, plumbing, cooking, etc. draw power. So we can assume a pretty beefy battery bank on this boat, but not excessively so, in order to stretch into that 4 week range. But that’s nothing revolutionary for subs - Electric subs go back to 1888, with diesel/electric hybrids coming along after that.

      Depth: approx. 250 m

      Totally plausible and shallower than military craft. But maybe not with the viewing windows in the illustration.

      It even has a pool inside it!

      A moon pool or a regular one? Either way, that’s extravagant. But it looks like a moon pool wouldn’t work below 50m or so.

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        Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks

        Pffft, bush league. The Titan has been submerged for checks watch 272 days with no end in sight.

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        A moon pool or a regular one?

        Just a regular one, but I imagine they’ll add one if you ask for it.

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        Considering that the record for longest continous submersion of a diesel-electric sub is something like 2 weeks, i highly doubt that 4 weeks in a civilian vessel is achievable