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>>mfw the modules for the Poseidon undersea resort are being manufactured literally a few miles from where I live.

http://www.poseidonresorts.com/poseidon_flash.html

Should I try to get photos of the various living pods under construction? If they're visible from outside the property, no harm no foul, right?

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It has 22 regular suites, a restaurant and bar, a library, conference room, wedding chapel, spa and a large luxury suite for higher paying guests.

They're mitgating costs by selling units as standalone undersea homes for the wealthy, same business model as the Atlantica Expeditions, although theirs will cost considerably less.

>> No.2356864

I believe (but am not a lawyer) that in the US, leaving things out where they're visible, without special assistance (IR cameras, flying drones, high-powered telescopes kinda iffy), is not exercising sufficient diligence for the pods to be protected under "trade secret" laws.

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>>2356864

Sweet. They'll have to move them out of the warehouse to load 'em on a barge, if I can figure out when that's happening I can take some video.

It's only the largest, most advanced undersea living structure ever built.

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>>2356869
no rapture is

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>>mfw you go to jail for espionage

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>>2356871
Hmm, yes, I concur.

>> No.2356888

>>2356877

>Oh wow they're building something really cool, I wanna go watch and maybe I can learn something
>get arrested for industrial espionage

Gotta live the world we live in

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>>2356871

>>no rapture is

Oh I see, a pop culture reference. You mentioned something similar that was in a popular videogame Well done.

>>2356877

Honestly? Willing to risk it. For me, nothing's cooler than this, and as a one week stay costs $15,000 this may be my only chance to see the hardware in person.

>> No.2356901

So wait, they're really doing this? I saw this in an article several years ago and figured it was one of those design concepts that wasn't intended to actually be built.

How deep will it be?

>> No.2356903

>>2356865

>>They're mitgating costs by selling units as standalone undersea homes for the wealthy

I don't see how that'd work. From the pic, it lacks a lot of basic shit you'd need to live comfortably. Also if they are designed to dock with the hotel then how would you get in and out without flooding it

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>>2356901
deeper than uranus

>> No.2356908

>>2356890
OMG, someone should put a hamster underwater, and call it HAMPTURE! Like "Rapture" and "Hamster" combined! That would be so hilarious.

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>>2356908

Haha, okay, you got me. But as you might imagine I got my fill of Bioshock jokes during that project. Wears pretty thin after a while, like Portal jokes.

>> No.2356923

>>2356903
>>2356903
like a holiday home only go for a week or mouth rent for rest of year

>> No.2356928

Hey Mad, why don't you just go ask for a tour?

Or perhaps a job?

this seems serendipitous, if you know what I mean.

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>>2356901

About 40 feet deep. A little less than twice as deep as I'll be living at during the 2011 mission.

By comparison, Aquarius undersea lab is 60 feet deep. The deepest manned outpost ever built was Sealab III, which was stationed at 600 feet, but abandoned due to technical problems and a death thought to have resulted from sabotage.

The deepest successful habitat was Cousteau's Conshelf 3, which was in 328 feet of water.

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>>2356901

About 40 feet deep. A little less than twice as deep as I'll be living at during the 2012 mission.

By comparison, Aquarius undersea lab is 60 feet deep. The deepest manned outpost ever built was Sealab III, which was stationed at 600 feet, but abandoned due to technical problems and a death thought to have resulted from sabotage.

The deepest successful habitat was Cousteau's Conshelf 3, which was in 328 feet of water.

>>Hey Mad, why don't you just go ask for a tour? Or perhaps a job?

Not a bad idea. Concerned about legal complications though, as I'll be taking part in a competing project fairly soon.

>> No.2356991

>>$200,000 to go into space for 5 minutes
>>$15,000 to live in Rapture for a week

Choice is obvious. I'm surprised Richard Branson hasn't bought the whole operation.

>> No.2357016

>>2356943
>>2356943
sabotage? By who?

>> No.2357017

>>2356991
I don't fancy dying by drowning. But dying in space because a rocket engine exploded? I'd be okay with that.

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>>2357017

>>I don't fancy dying by drowning.

No manned habitat has ever catastrophically flooded. Not once. Then again most we ambient, so if you poked a hole there'd just be a slow trickle that you could patch up from outside. The risk is greater in a 1atm habitat due to the greater pressure difference, but the specs indicate it's overengineered for safety (4 inch thick arcylic, escape hatches w/emergency air pockets at the top of each module so you can breathe while awaiting minisub evacuation)

>>2357016

>>sabotage? By who?

Russians, possibly. They had their own "man in the sea" program at the time, although it was running into a lot bigger issues. They once had an entire habitat wash ashore in a storm because they didn't think to ballast it more than enough to make it slightly negatively buoyant.

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>>2357017

>>I don't fancy dying by drowning.

No manned habitat has ever catastrophically flooded. Not once. Then again most were ambient pressure, so if you poked a hole there'd just be a slow trickle that you could patch up from outside. The risk is greater in a 1atm habitat due to the greater pressure difference, but the specs indicate it's overengineered for safety (4 inch thick arcylic, escape hatches w/emergency air pockets at the top of each module so you can breathe while awaiting minisub evacuation)

>>2357016

>>sabotage? By who?

Russians, possibly. They had their own "man in the sea" program at the time, although it was running into a lot bigger issues. They once had an entire habitat wash ashore in a storm because they didn't think to ballast it more than enough to make it slightly negatively buoyant.

>> No.2357045

>>2357017
what about due to life support failure? Or deceleration failure?

Also Virgin Galactic is going suborbital. Sure you're in 'space,' but you aren't in orbit. And there is a HUGE difference between being in 'space' and being in orbit. Heck a V-2 rocket can go into 'space.' Even Poland has sent sounding rockets into 'space'.

Getting into orbit requires a much large amount of energy than getting into 'space.' To get into orbit, you need speed more than height.