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[-] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Root cause analysis determined that the reason for the incident was that it was a ship built in Russia.

[-] Astronut@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago
[-] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Since it's a Russian ship, I'd like to point out that that is very typical.

[-] nailingjello@piefed.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Is something like that very typical?

[-] Nautalax@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Idk for other ships but their aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov became a meme for always being down for maintenance and/or on fire

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The orcas have only been going after small sailboats (the kind small enough for a middle-class family to afford, if they own it instead of a house and live aboard full-time). They aren't the class conscious anti-oligarch crusaders everybody wants them to be.

[-] thallamabond@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

The phrases "middle class family" and "live aboard full-time" do not sit well with me.

[-] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 points 1 week ago

A small boat is (well, was, these are probably ~2008 prices I'm remembering) cheap. It's probably been 'patched' by marinas and such, but at one time you could get a small sailboat for 10-20k, and get electricity+dock space for a tenth of the price of an apartment's rent. You would be living in ~200 square feet at best (and probably less than that) but it was doable. For a family of three, you could probably swing that lifestyle with a 40k boat, which is still well under a typical house. Again, it would be ridiculously small, but it's possible. A friend of mine grew up on a sailboat like that.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I know a couple who both cashed in all their retirement to buy a boat and sail from place to place; their kids are 'home schooled' on the boat. they are not rich by any stretch, but they're living their dream. not my idea of fun but, eh? the husband now just does odd marine jobs to keep their house floating. I respect their desire to live their way.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

That poor ship fell out a window

Those ship attacking killer whales are now a nuclear super power.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

killer whales with nuclear powered lasers.

[-] jasoman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The going to add lasers

[-] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Let me just leave this here:

South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025

ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.

...The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.

According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.

The publicly released timeline doesn't line up, but the motivations do.

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?

I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.

The reactors were bound for North Korean subs. The Spanish claimed evidence of asupercavating torpedo strike.

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

MRXUUV is a comically terrible acronym. Why even bother using the "x" from "extra" if you're going to make an acronym that reads like a silicon valley pyramid scheme?

[-] prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Maybe it makes more sense to a first language Korean speaker/reader and we’re too English language to get it?

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oddly, the bottom of the ocean is a pretty good place to store a nuclear reactor. Which is lucky because Russia already had several of them down there and there are two American nuke subs on permanent patrol.

[-] fake@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

It's hardly going to be fuelled

Actually the ocean contains billions of tons of uranium

Unfortunately paywalled. Is this a delayed report on the one which was hit by a supercavating torpedo off the coast of Spain a few months ago or is this another sunk russian ship with reactors bound for North Korea's submarine program?

[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Depends on whether you consider December 23, 2024 "a few months ago".

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

It is about the ship, which was sunk off the coast of Spain. However the supercavating torpedo thing is not really proven to my knowledge. It would be very interesting, as Ukraine does not have that technology.

[-] Smaile@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

South k does, they 100% intercepted that. To cock block NK from geting those reactors.

[-] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

CNN did a video recently about the one off Spain in the last couple of days. This is probably that one.

[-] BehavioralClam@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Likely, possibly, unexplained. Yet CNN somehow knows about it lmao.

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Why would they go the long way round?

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Now that's how you renege on a gift!

[-] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Well gee golly.

A Russian cargo ship carrying nuclear components for North Korea has a 'surprise accident'.

I can't think of anyone who might have wanted to arrange that accident, can you? I mean surely everyone wants North Korea to have nuclear stuff... Oh wait...

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

"You are experiencing a car accident"

[-] perestroika@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago
[-] rwrwefwef@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago

Is that old news or did it happen again?

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago

What an unfortunate thing to happen on free eggs night.

[-] fullsquare@awful.systems -1 points 1 week ago

must be greenpeace, move along nothing to see here

(also it's old news atp)

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