/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4638342
>When will I be able to rent one of those underwater container crate things?

You can't rent the small ambient pressure habs, only buy them. $35,000 unfurnished, $50,000 with kitchenette, entertainment console, etc.

The permanent colony will offer apartment cylinders for $250,000 to purchase outright (not including expenses involved in transporting it to the site, deploying and then mating it to the colony hub) or $1097 monthly which includes air, electricity and water but not internet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/science/earth/james-cameron-prepares-to-dive-into-mariana-trench.h
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>As a boy, he used to squeeze his body into drainage pipes, snaking along to see how far he could go.

>As an adult, he made the two top-grossing movies of all time, “Avatar” and “Titanic.”

>And on Wednesday, James Cameron folded his 6-foot-2-inch frame into a 43-inch-wide capsule and plummeted, alone, down five miles in the New Britain Trench off Papua New Guinea. His feat, in a 24-foot-long craft dubbed the Deepsea Challenger, broke by a mile the world depth record for modern vehicles that a Japanese submersible had held.

>But he wants to go deeper: This month, Mr. Cameron plans to plunge nearly seven miles to the planet’s most inaccessible spot: the Challenger Deep in the western Pacific, an alien world thought to swarm with bizarre eels and worms, fish and crustaceans. He wants to spend six hours among them, filming the creatures and sucking up samples with a slurp gun.

>“It’s a blast,” Mr. Cameron said in an interview during sea trials of his new craft. “There’s nothing more fun than getting bolted into this and seeing things that human beings have never seen before. Forget about red carpets and all that glitzy stuff.”

Here is an interior shot of the 1998 prototype for the newer, larger module that will be deployed in 2013. That's James Cameron, one of the participants in the original expedition. He will also be returning for the next one.

>>4293993

They are larger inside than they look from the renders. This is the 1998 prototype, the NWE uses the same design but the body of the capsule is twice as long to fit the extra amenities in there.

>>4089869
>It's not even worth mentioning when you propose they REPRESENT A LIFESTYLE THAT HUMANITY IN GENERAL CAN ADOPT.

Oh, I see the misunderstanding. I never actually proposed that this would be a lifestyle suited for humanity in general. I've actually said very clearly and very many times that it's a niche lifestyle that will be enjoyed by probably no more than a few hundred.

>>4090382

Semantics, you understand what I meant.

>>4090388

I'm actually neither of those things. But you're the same guy you're replying to, so whatever.

>You seabros are FAGGOTS. Why aren't you all living in the ocean?

It's 2011. The colonies haven't been built yet. Why are you so mean? I'm actually open to being friends with you, same as anyone else, but you seem needlessly and joyfully cruel. Are you just deliberately a horrible person? Is that who you want to be for your entire life? :-\

>>4022297

Luckily, a thin strip of the contintental shelf is in international waters. Anyone can build there and it's still reasonably shallow.

>>4022289

>I'd like to see underwater classes.

The expectation is that many of these mini habitats will be sold to universities with marine science programs. Back in the 1960s, lots of schools had their own such stations. This permits them to leverage those same benefits but without the high operating costs that killed them before.

Pic: James Cameron inside the SCAS, prototype for the New Worlds Explorer.