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   Jessica Rooster (rooster@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 02:52:34 JST Jessica Rooster

   I think people misunderstand what makes a submarine unique. Any boat can go underwater, what defines a submarine is being able to come back up.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 02:56:31 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @rooster For my family's TTRPG, I had to teach myself the fundamentals of submarine navigation and combat. Let me tell you...that is a *fascinating* rabbit hole to go down. It's a world foreign to our intuitions, but intuitive once you start to understand the inner logic to it. Subs are great at coming back up once going down, but it's what they can do in the deep that is almost mind expanding to work through.

     I realize you were joking, but I couldn't resist a short info dump.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 05:23:08 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @meohw @rooster So, first lesson here...I need to type slower when using my thumbs. And what I meant is that the most impressive features of a submarine are all about how they know where they are and where other things are when they're at depth. You can't really "see" down there. You don't have GPS. Active SONAR gives away your position so you try to avoid it. Communication is completely different.

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     mau (meohw@nerdculture.de)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Aug-2025 05:23:10 JST mau

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     @roadriverrail @rooster
     hey, thanks. You catched me. What are talking about, writing "what they can do in the deep tha is almost mind exoanding to work through"?