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Infamous $30 Logitech F710 called out in $50M lawsuit over Titan sub implosion (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You joke, but watch this:

https://archive.org/details/take-me-to-titanic

from 29 minutes in. A last-minute adjustment before launch plugged in a thruster backwards; no protocol to check the behaviour prelaunch. They doscovered it when they got to the bottom.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Jebus, I cant believe the engineers would allow them to be plugged wrong. It's so easy to design that mistake away