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Grounded Russian Nuclear Sub Photographed With Sonar
Lanxon sends in an intriguing piece from Wired: "This eerie wreck image is not computer-generated. It's the sonar image of Russian nuclear submarine B-159 (called K-159 before decommissioning), which has been lying 248m down in the Barents Sea, between Norway and Russia, since 2003. The Russian Federation hired Adus, a Scottish company that specializes in high-resolution sonar surveying, to evaluate if it would be possible to recover the wreck. 'The operation was complicated as the submarine was very deep, so we had to use the sonar equipment mounted on a remotely operated vehicle' [also pictured in the article], says Martin Dean, the managing director of Adus and a forensic-wreck archaeologist. 'We also had a problem with the surveying due to the density of North Atlantic cod attracted to the sound of the sonar and the light of the cameras.'"
Um, sir... I don't quite know how to explain this, but we just passed this Geiger counter over your baby, and well, it went nuts! Did your wife perchance eat weapons grade plutonium during her pregnancy?!?
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
I doubt sunk submarines are that active on Chatroulette.
Definitely photo-shopped.
Are you crazy? That sub is nothing more than a bunch of lines now.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Yeah, not using "sonographed" is the bigger mistake.
Sono-shopped, you mean.
...the future crusty old bastards are already drinking the Kool-Aid.
Not really, the lazy sods are just using this as the excuse for getting the lines out and drinking for an hour on Russian government money.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
It's a shame. Or, maybe it's a pancake. Doesn't make any difference to most people.
I'm very apancaked that Slashdot has editors who can't read.