SpaceKadet

I know what "fried" means. It's when the electronic devices emit the blue magic smoke that drives them internally. By the same token, how would you trust commercially available control gear. It can fail just the same, and you don't carry spares. In this case they could easy carry an extra controller. Probably the worst thing that would happen was if they ran out of battery power in the controller. I have owned many Logitech devices over the years. None has ever failed. I am typing this now on an Logitech RGB gaming keyboard. And, BTW, it's 2.4GHz and not MHz as I wrote in my post, brainfart. But it's still a fact the the sub was one big hack with everything. A YouTuber who was on the sub just days before the last dive was saying that they experienced problems with many things during the dive. Wonder what computer he used to control the sub. Or maybe it was an X-box.

Chips just don't get "fried" unless you put it in a microwave oven. Actually, the Logitech game controller they used is not Bluetooth, it has it's own 2.4MHz dongle. I have exactly the same and the connection is high speed and flowless within the 4m I have between my sofa and the TV. In fact some subs and ROV are controlled by a game controllers. It's just convenient. Have all the buttons you'll ever need. Don't understand why people would want to penalize Logitech for somebody using their tech. It's not like they sponsored the sub company.

Like I said before. Extreme violence with a screwdriver and a hammer in case of spinners. Microwave for the SSD's. Kill them all!!!!

The sub was at the surface pressure inside. That's the reason for the 15cm pressure hull. Nobody can breathe the air at 3800m, no SCUBA, no Trimix. Maybe some experimental oxygenated fluid, that does not exist commercially as yet. If they could surface, the problem would be to exit the sub as the hatch was bolted from outside. And without a beacon the sub would be impossible to locate on the surface.

The sub was rated to 4000m, the Titanic is at 3800m. Slim margin, but still.... We all have seen Das Boot, no?

Maybe, but paracetamol with alcohol will definitely make you fly.... Discovered that by coincidence....

Yeah, should really have been in the international news section. This is probably a lost cause... They have air for only 4 days, and now is day 3. Read that the entry hatch is bolted from outside. Even if they could surface, they cannot get out without external help.

China and regional stability... Is that an oxymoron?

Microwave oven can do wonders to an obsolete SSD. Totally unrecoverable! Spinners are a different story. Some violence might be required if you don't own a powerful electromagnet.

Re: my last append to this topic. I did finish my i9-13900 rig and currently running with Windows 10. If you replace the motherboard, your Windows activation automatically expires. I don't know how I did it, but managed to transfer my Windows activation with Microsoft phone support. All well there. However, the are a few snags! First is the Intel processor, I do a lot on video encoding, and that i9 hits 100 deg within seconds resulting in thermal throttling. I understand that is the same issue with i7-13700. It's basically the same die as i9 but with 8 E-cores disabled. I can remedy the temperature runaway slightly by reducing the processor VCORE by -105mV. The other issue is that the encoders I use (x265, AV1) will only use the E-cores. I have 18 of them running at 4200 MHz, but my last processor had 6/12 C/T clocked at 4300 MHz and was about the same performance, and that was Gen 5 with DDR4 memory. The story has it that Windows 10 doesn't know how to distribute the workload on the new Intel processors, but Windows 11 supposed to be the dogs <deleted> in this area. So, my plan is to image my current drive and upgrade to Windows 11, we'll see how it goes. If I don't like it much in daily use can always restore the Win 10 image. Why did that stupid filter just delete "b o l l o c k s"? It's in the Cambridge Dictionary <deleted>!.

It's over 4 years ago that I applied for one, so don't remember now. Couldn't find anything searching, so asking here... Apart from TM8 form, what other documentation (copies PP etc.) is needed for re-entry permit?