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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet (www.theverge.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Korkki@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] curry@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Recycled parts? That's simply being too dumb to be alive on this world. And I thought putting a wireless xbox controller for navigating the damn sub was dumb enough.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Frankly that controller was probably the most reliable part of the sub

[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

If it was setup properly, you just us an if statement like, "if communication lost to control for t>5 seconds, release balast" or something like that. I had 0 issue with the controller being an ots consumer good. The rest was an idiotic design, I won't even say it was engineered.