The attack sub USS Connecticut, involved in an underwater collision in the South China Sea... 20

[zeusfaber]

Recognising how often this actually happens, a strong possibility has to be a perfectly adequately surveyed obstacle combined with a track plotted on too small a scale of chart using too blunt a pencil.

A.

 

[RedSnake]

More probably they discovered a new volcano.

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.“
Albert Einstein

 

[1503-44]

Aussies on a test d(r)ive?

 

[MechinNC]

A shipping container full of water (or whatever) will deform rapidly upon impact with the sub. As it crushes the interior volume is reduced and the water pressure inside will quickly blow open the doors or rip open a weld. The water quickly vents out and its mass is reduced. The container steel is thin and will crumple.

It is NOT like hitting a 30 ton solid object. More like a bat swung at plastic bottle full of water.

Me thinks it hit an uncharted rock (uncharted for us). Or barely maybe another sub, that is way unlikely. If there was another boat operating out there, we would hear it with passive sonar.

 

[waross]

It could have been a case of one sub closely following another which made an unexpected course change.
In fiction: The Hunt for Red October.
In real life: Incidences of this are related in the non-fiction work, Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
The book, Blind Man's Bluff, relates a true account of a collision between an American and a Russian sub.
At the time, the Americans believed that the Russian sub had lost control, gone too deep and been crushed. It later transpired that the Russian sub survived and made it's way home.
American sub drivers liked to get into the baffles of an enemy sub and follow closely, sometime for days.

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[AusG]

Aussies on a test d(r)ive?

Here, hold my beer.

 

[JohnRBaker]

For what it's worth:

China is fixated on a mysterious US submarine incident in the South China Sea and keeps accusing the US of a cover-up

https://news.yahoo.com/china-fixated-mysterious-us-submarine-174101722.html

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[hokie66]

Just more mischievous Chinese propaganda.

 

[MJCronin]

The submarine hit one of these, at full speed underwater ...

Alien spacecraft are very strong as they are mostly constructed from an isotope of Element 115, also commonly called "Nofukinwaydium" .....

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer

 

[itsmoked]

Are autonomous hunter-killer shipping containers made out of that?

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[MJCronin]

Yes ... "autonomous hunter-killer shipping containers" --- HILARIOUS !!!!!!!

MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer

 

[waross]

FYI. It is rumoured that the subject isotopes of element 115 were developed by the Russians and are used extensively and almost exclusively by the Russians for espionage.

Spoiler

Moscovium
Moscovium is a synthetic chemical element with the symbol Mc and atomic number 115.

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[dik]

non-explosive depth charges... how clever...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[dik]

Bill... and with a half-life of 0.65 seconds... you have to use it quickly...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[waross]

with a half-life of 0.65 seconds..? "Nofukinwaydium"

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Ohm's law
Not just a good idea;
It's the LAW!

 

[btrueblood]

Could you make a hammer out of it?

...an Mc hammer...

 

[dik]

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik

 

[IRstuff]

Wow; LPS for the most unreadable image ever ;-)

It's from Wikipedia, so cut&paste seems apropos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium[/URL]]Moscovium is an extremely radioactive element: its most stable known isotope, moscovium-290, has a half-life of only 0.65 seconds.[9] In the periodic table, it is a p-block transactinide element. It is a member of the 7th period and is placed in group 15 as the heaviest pnictogen, although it has not been confirmed to behave as a heavier homologue of the pnictogen bismuth. Moscovium is calculated to have some properties similar to its lighter homologues, nitrogen, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, and bismuth, and to be a post-transition metal, although it should also show several major differences from them. In particular, moscovium should also have significant similarities to thallium, as both have one rather loosely bound electron outside a quasi-closed shell. About 100 atoms of moscovium have been observed to date, all of which have been shown to have mass numbers from 287 to 290.

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[dik]

Thanks... better copy. For a moment, I thought my eyesight was going...

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[thebard3]

That settles that.

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/01/in...ded-on-uncharted-sea-mount-in-south-china-sea

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