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| Nuclear submarines crash; Don't worry ! | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 17 2009, 10:48 AM (157 Views) | |
| Wim | Feb 17 2009, 10:48 AM Post #1 |
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This drew quite some attention in Europe: Nuclear submarines According to French and Belgian television journal the two submarines collided as they were unvisible to see each other, due to their anti-detection apparatus Wim |
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| big al | Feb 17 2009, 11:11 AM Post #2 |
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I heard that story last night as I was driving home. I thought that they've done a fine job of making the nuclear deterrent undetectable if this can occur. They also stated that NATO submarines are coordinated by some central agency to avoid just this sort of thing, but as France is not currently believed to be a participant, they may not know where the French subs are (and I'm sure they don't know where the Russian subs are unless they can track them). They don't call it the Silent Service for nothing. I'd be interested in seeing what OT can tell us. Big Al |
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| Klaus | Feb 17 2009, 11:20 AM Post #3 |
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What I don't understand: Isn't it incredibly unlikely that two submarines collide in the middle of the Atlantic? So unlikely, in fact, that it is almost impossible? I could only imagine that this happens when there is some particularly interesting stuff (from the perspective of a military sub) that attracts many submarines in one small place. |
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| George K | Feb 17 2009, 11:50 AM Post #4 |
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Submarines always play "cat and mouse." The USSR and USA did that for decades (and probably still do). Lots of close calls, near misses. This was not a fluke, not at all. |
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| big al | Feb 17 2009, 12:33 PM Post #5 |
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I think the Brits were afraid the French were planning an attack and felt they had to shadow them. It's happened before, you know, and with D'Oh there, there's an extra high-value target. Big Al |
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| QuantumIvory | Feb 17 2009, 12:42 PM Post #6 |
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What they are not telling you... Blurp |
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| Piano*Dad | Feb 17 2009, 12:47 PM Post #7 |
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I'm guessing these two ships were deliberately playing cat and mouse in order to test each other's detection capabilities. Two 400 foot underwater behemoths dancing around each other leaves little room for error, though. BTW, the fact that two ships blundering into each other in the Atlantic is a low probability event does not mean that it is a zero probability event. Just because something bad happens does not mean that it wasn't random. Diseases, for instance, sometimes show up as clusters without any true causal connection. The chances that three kids will have a rare cancer in one small town is quite low. When it happens, people automatically seek an external cause (something in the water, EM radiation, whatever). The reason instead may be pure randomness. |
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