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Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean'
Jantastic noted a BBC report saying "A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month. Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said."
You'd think we would... you know... communicate with our allies? Maybe? At least they didn't almost collide with a lighthouse, though.
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Is there a reason "collide in ocean" is in quotes? Could we also say they were "bumping their ballasts", "raising their periscopes", and so on?
forget the credit crunch. it's the collision crisis that will doom us all. I can already predict people bumping one another on the streets, cows going to waste on the fields, large buildings tripping the little ones... it's the apocalypse.
Maybe if they weren't in super stealth mode they would have seen each other and the accident could have been avoided. This technology is too dangerous and needs to be outlawed through international treaty. The up side is that we know that stealth works!!
Chekov "where are your nukleer wessels??"
Otherwise we would not know that submarines have been equipped with Sonar (well, ASDIC at least) since the 1940s. Of course, they might have mentioned that boomers try to sneak around quietly without having Sonar disco parties. Still, no dolphins were murdered in the making of this accident!
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Well, this was bound to happen. I hear things are getting pretty cramped down there in the ocean.
This guy's the limit!
Aren't the French and British navy both using MS Windows now..? Just noticing some recent trouble with the French Air-force related to this... Perhaps they mistook the "sonar screensaver" for the real thing..?
Nuclear submarines colliding, satellites colliding, 200 million Chinese suddenly move inland leaving cities, US government giving away billions of dollars to banks...
Don't know about you, but lately I feel more and more like I am living in a James Bond movie.
Only I am not the one with cool gadgets, drinking problem and a girl with a sexual innuendo for a name under each arm.
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Clearly these subs were tracking the 2 satellites that collided last week http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/11/2318226. The six day delay can be explained by the difference in speed of a nuclear sub compared to a satellite.
The dessert?
I find it hard to find an ice-cream dish with sufficient room for one nuclear missile submarine, let alone two.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Looks like we'll have to alter the age-old saying "passed like ships in the night" to include "... except French and British nuclear submarines".
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And to misquote Order of the Stick:
*bump*
"Sorry for knocking you over, I didn't see you there."
"Don't worry. Happens all the time. 'Cause, you know. Ninja."
"Now go away or I shall bump you a second time!"
Paranoia is no way to deal with nuclear risks, but neither is being glib.
How about being imlib or gobject instead? Would that be better?
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Many people in the UK believe that Trident is an expensively useless deterrent. Sarkozy said Brown had no idea how to fix the economic crisis. Soon after, there is a submarine collision. Brown was trying to upset Sarkozy while pandering to the right-wing UK tabloids and justifying the cost by using Trident to take on the French. Unfortunately, budget cuts mean that Trident subs are now crewed by mothers of private school kids whose only driving experience is using their Range-Rovers and Grand Cherokees to push poor people off the pavement. There could only be one outcome.
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Visibility under the water is poor. Subs turn slowly. Most you'd get out of that is "Mind the sub." "What sub?" *splat*
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
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"A head on collision was bound to happen even if they knew the other sub was there. The French drive on the right, the British on the left."
What retard modded this Insightful? Funny, sure. Even Redundant. But FFS, Insightful?
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It's just like that one place in the chunnel where all the English have to suddenly veer over to the right to keep from hitting the French, and vice-versa. Lots of accidents there.
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Someone should have spent more time Naval Gazing.
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