Are us Humans F*CKING NUTS????? Two nuclear powered, AND NUCLEAR ARMED subs collide mid-ocean . .

[ConcernedCanuk]

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HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo??

Ok

They wanna run silent - I get that part

Can't they put a window in these things

or web-cams so they can SEE WTF they are doing out there ???

yayzus yayzus yayzus

a link for the curious - - http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4850260a6433.html

[Rick Myers]

1. This story had me laughing

And not in a good way!!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

2. CAN WE ALL DISARM THE WORLDS MILITARIES

PLEASE

[The Straight Story]

3. The french sub could not see because their huge white flag was in the way

:rofl: :hide:

[Captain Hilts]

9. Yeah, I laughed. nt

[Captain Hilts]

4. It's the UK submarine's fault - they were driving on the wrong side!

[jobycom]

7. Best post of the day!

:rofl: I'm picturing Kevin Kline in "A Fish Called Wanda!"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. This used to happen all the time during the cold war.

:shrug:

[snappyturtle]

6. Don't you feel reassured though with the message that there was no

nuclear spillage?! Like they'd tell us if there was. I was amazed that this happened. One would think......

[DFW]

8. Did someone run a red light or something?

Sounds like someone out there needs their license revoked.

Like maybe whoever built their sonar........

[ixion]

10. why, yes, yes we are.

the vast majority of us, at least, and surely all of those in politics and the military. :nuke:

[HeresyLives]

11. Yes, we're f *cking nuts.

Next question.

[Obamanaut]

12. We have met the enemy and it is us. Good Grief! nt

[Bake]

13. I wonder if you could see it on Google Ocean ...

Bake

[DainBramaged]

14. What's funny is two countries who hate each other more than us

collided with each other. And yes, what the fuck are they doing with nukes at sea and who is the threat???????????

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. No shit. You'd think there was a country out there that has an overwelmingly

powerful military that has been engaged in military adventurism that might be a destabilizing force in the international community...

[Uncle Joe]

15. What a coincidence, right after two satellites had collided in Earth Orbit. n/t

[Double T]

16. The two pilots of these subs need to waterboarded then............

forced to take a submarine safe driver's course.

[NutmegYankee]

21. That's like torturing a car driver for hitting the invisible man.

Two stealthy objects couldn't hear each other and collided. It's not the pilot's fault.

[Double T]

22. C'mon!! You are just across the river from our GIANT NUKE SUBS.

Couldn't hear or see? Engineering at GD needs to go back to the drawing board.

[NutmegYankee]

24. Actually No.

I'm across the river from the little attack submarines. The giant missile submarines are based out of Georgia.

As for seeing - You can't see that far anyway in the ocean. And for hearing, it works really well for listening in on ships and sealife, or just about anything else that isn't designed to be sickeningly quiet.


Oh, and The Electric Boat Company didn't design or build these submarines.

[mtnester]

18. CRAZY IVAN!

someone had to say it

[rurallib]

19. do you suppose anyone will take this as a warning and do

something to make sure such a tragedy doesn'toccur?
No? Me neither.

[ConcernedCanuk]

20. NO - but they WILL try harder to keep it out of the news . . .

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That being said . .

how much have we NOT heard about . . . ??

I'm sure we haven't heard about ALL of the boo-boos

OH

Isn't there still a missing nuke floating around the USA somewhere?

something to ponder . .

[bushmeister0]

23. Couldn't have seen this happening.

banthebomb.org:

"On the basis of recorded incidents involving Polaris and other British nuclear powered submarines it can be projected that Trident submarines are likely to be involved in between 2 and 5 collisions with other vessels. Trident submarines in service for 30 years will be in service for a total of 120 reactor years. The projected number of incidents for the projected lifetime of Trident, based on the figures for Polaris and for all British nuclear powered submarines are as follows:

Based on Polaris

5.9 fires
4.7 collisions (all vessels)
1.2 collisions with other submarines

Based on all submarines:

5.9 fires
1.9 collisions (all vessels)
0.6 collisions with other submarines"

http://www.banthebomb.org/archives/trisaf/ch3.htm#accident%20statistics

[Angleae]

25. And what do you expect them to see?

At the depth these ships operate it's very very dark. Even with night vision equipment you still won't see anything until it's close (no light for light amplification, no heat for infrared) and at that point, a 15000 ton ship doesn't turn quickly enough.

[HooptieWagon]

26. I recall hearing about a couple of collisions between US and Russian subs

and a few years ago a US sub ran into an uncharted undersea mountain in the Pacific.

But, those subs are seriously quiet. About 25 years ago, while sailing off Ft. Lauderdale, a sub surfaced right next to us at dawn. I don't know if they knew we were there, but we definately didn't know they were there until I glanced towards our port beam and saw a freakin' huge sub surfacing about 50 yards away. Surprised the shit out of us. Even surfaced, it was dead silent.