It's not even a nuclear submarine. The Elites are so boring.
165 m private submersible superyacht
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#112It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-signalling—this is seriously the coolest toy you can think to buy with 10e8-9 USD?
Playing Captain Nemo is honestly a pretty decent strategy. I think I'd personally go for the volcano base, but the Nautilus method is pretty epic too.
Either that or fund any FTL research I could get my hands on. I want to break that particular barrier.
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#113Why is this on HN? This seems like a scam in a sense. Look at the “pressure hull” compared to the numerous openings cut into the outer hull for party decks or whatever, they don’t really connect and the interior space is made to look much bigger than it is. How are they going to constantly dewater the ship when there is water leaking in everywhere? What happens if someone forgets to close one of the 100 exterior openings?
Maybe these are just renderings to market the idea, but I would have no confidence I would get what was advertised if anything.
Then there is the practical and comfort aspect that other people have mentioned.
Is this cosplay for DrEvil?
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#114There's also the Nautilus "Luxury Yacht Submarine" from U-Boat Worx [1]. I don't think either of them have ever been built, they're basically just Kickstarters for ultra-rich people. Edit: There's a link for Migaloo NFTs on OpenSea in the footer and a fanciful floating habitat that looks like a seasteaders wet dream. This does not look like a serious project. The entire site is nothing but renderings. U-Boat Worx at…
There seem to be a few fancy boat projects that turn out to just be renderings and NFT scams.
Like https://www.pangeosyacht.com/projects, an $8 Billion „Terayacht“ maybe launching in 2033. Until then they sell NFTs for a place in the virtual Unreal Engine version of this (also still to be built).
The design studio behind that (https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com) has many renderings of vehicle concepts, but nothing realized yet.
Except for one thing, the Songball https://www.lazzarinidesignstudio.com/the-songball. A little plastic speaker that plays back one song you can record yourself, starting at 20€ (https://www.songball.com/?lang=en).
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#115I love that there is a section on “sustainability.” Who says these guys don’t have a sense of humor?
Since it's entirely made up it's completely climate neutral[1].
[1] Other than a small amount of hot air.
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#116Why is this on HN? This seems like a scam in a sense. Look at the “pressure hull” compared to the numerous openings cut into the outer hull for party decks or whatever, they don’t really connect and the interior space is made to look much bigger than it is. How are they going to constantly dewater the ship when there is water leaking in everywhere? What happens if someone forgets to close one of the 100 exterior open…
You are right, it is a scam. But identifying scams is a useful skill.
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#117One small detail I enjoyed: the phone number on that page starts 0043, which is the country code for Austria - a landlocked country.
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#118I love that there is a section on “sustainability.” Who says these guys don’t have a sense of humor?
The only way this is sustainable is if the owner goes out to where the transponderless fishing fleets are and torpedoes them to the bottom of the ocean
And tow them outside the environment
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#119I don’t get the idea of having a separate pressure hull for your helicopter hangar. Surely if your submarine is compromised to the point of needing the pressure hull you are long past the point where your helicopter is going to save you.
Helicopter hanger has the largest door into a pressure hull area, it's the largest point of failure - if it fails, it's isolated from the living space (and other sub areas). It's smart safety design.
I was thinking more that it didn’t need a pressure hull at all, but after your message I realized it would kinda ruin the helicopter xD
I read their adverts to mean that the ship was so expensive even the helicopter got it’s own pressure hull. But I should understand it as the helicopter can’t do without a pressure hull, and the special part is that it’s _separate_ from the human hull.
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#120Gorillaz called. They want their Plastic Beach floating artificial island back.