9mo ago

Round 2 🚢

103 comments

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".
- 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

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
- 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.
- Good point. If any part of a vessel never fully submerges, can it be termed a submarine?
  
  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.
- Perfect. Now I can ignore the article.

Will this one also be steered with a gaming controller?
- No this one is PC based
  
  Pretty hard to download these mandatory windows updates when youre uner 500m of water.
  
  So HOTAS then?
  
  Me, laughing at the luxury submarine because its integrated with PCs
  Me, nervous about the luxury submarine because I just found out those PCs are running Linux.

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.
- They usually disappear soon after
  Yes, they go under the water
- 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.
  
  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"
  
  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.

C'mon orcas, you know what to do
- orphaned orca sadly straps on suicide vest
  
  What's the difference between a pod of orcas and a cell of orcas?
  conviction.
- 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.

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.
- well yeah, military subs arent built for comfort. neither are military surface vessels.
  you can make anything luxurious if you pump enough money into it.
  
  And if you don't have to pump it full of seamen.
- I'd expected much more glass on this one too. If you're underwater for fun you want to see shit!
- The military sub you saw videos about house hundreds of people on board... your personal sub only need to house a few dozen.

Let's make sure all the billionaires hear about this yeah?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charge
  
  I think we can market this as "underwater fireworks" and actually make money while the problem solves itself.
  
  https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Depth_Charge_(BW)

Welcome aboard Captain. All systems online
- I want a sequel to that game now damn it.
  
  There was a sequel of sorts, Subnautica: Below Zero. It feels pretty different, but it's fun in its own right.

I wonder if depth charges work the same on luxury subs as they do on military ones?
Eat the rich!
- No, I don't think they'd work the same. If military subs are rated and tested similarly to big ships like aircraft carriers, they are extremely resilient again underwater explosions
  I doubt that this thing, if it existed, would be as durable.
  
  We should give it a shot.

I'm ready for someone to disrupt the super yacht market with some fucking torpedoes.
- I dream about commanding giant sharks to eat yachts
  
  You have an ally in orcas. They don't even need to be commanded!

Ah, yes, to get to their bunker undetected when the revolt begins.
- 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.
  
  New Zealand, there's a billionaire commune there that's been robbery criticized for bunker building and pay to stay passports.
- Its a good thing that submarines don't require any kind of routine docking and maintenance.

Dezeen nuts
- Ha! Gottem)

https://www.migaloo-submarines.com/m5/
Length overall: 165.8 m
Beam: 23.0 m
Draft: 8.6 m
Range: approx. 15.000 km
Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks
Depth: approx. 250 m
It even has a pool inside it!
- Why would you want to spend 4 weeks trapped in a hotel with no windows?
  
  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
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  Submerged duration: approx. 4 weeks
  Pffft, bush league. The Titan has been submerged for checks watch 272 days with no end in sight.
  
  A moon pool or a regular one?
  Just a regular one, but I imagine they'll add one if you ask for it.
  
  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
- I hate when they don't post the price on the website
  
  if you have to ask you can't afford it

What's the point if it's not nuclear and doesn't have any SLBMs?
- My super-yacht-sub needs to run on fossil fuels or what even is the point?

I mean, they know what not to do after the last time right?
- Yes, don't cheap out on the life insurance
- I heard carbon fiber is a good material.

Depth charges aren’t that hard to make…
- Any idea how ? Asking for a friend ofc.
  
  You fill a barrel full of Ammonium-Nitrate fertilizer and put a 30-120 seconds delay fuze depending on expected depth. You start the fuze and drop it into the water. Voila Depth-Charge.

Orcas gonna fuck this thing up.

Pleasepleaseplease put bazillions of dollar-equivalents into building this thing and then get it stuck in ice that later cuts into the hull and sinks it 🙏 I know the unfathomably wealthy will never do anything to make this world actually decent but they can at least let us have a decent laugh once in a while!
(I'm assuming the pollution left before it's towed out of the environment will be less than the pollution from actually running the thing) (Also "towed out of the environment" is a funny reference. May need to look up "front fell off." I am asleep.)

Getting a bit "Nautilus from League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" vibes
- Or Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea vibes, even.
  Except that Capt. Nemo was an anti imperialist king.