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U.S. Navy Heard What It Believed Was Titan Implosion Days Ago — The Wall Street Journal (apple.news)

submitted 1 year ago by Awhiskeydrunker@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Underwater microphones designed to detect enemy submarines first detected Titan tragedy.

I suppose there was some discussion on whether to conceal or reveal the tech and that’s why we’ve only heard of this now.

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[–] paper_clip@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

he likened the risk to the innovation of the industry as a whole and that if the Wright Brothers had fallen during their flight, at least the industry would have known flying was possible and would have continued on and learned from it

There's a Twitter discussion about the Wright Brothers innovating for safety. Basically, the Wright Brothers realized that innovating on control and safety were more important than innovating on power when it comes to developing powered flight. Once you have a controllable glider, putting on a motor was the easy part.

[–] Alue42@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That was a really interesting thread, thanks for the link. Most interestingly, it was posted a week ago, days prior to the sub going missing. When you described it I assumed it was in response to the saga.