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As we await the final investigation results from the loss of the Titan submersible, which killed five people last summer at a depth of over 12,000 feet in the Atlantic, the tragedy has drawn questions far above the ocean depths, asking whether similar hazards face the burgeoning private exploration of space.To be more realistic, these questions lead to an uncomfortable truth about what eventually will happen in space. No matter how safe a system or stringent regulations, someday, somehow, something will go wrong in…

The Yellow Submarine (London Pavilion) is a rather pretentious piece of popular entertainment. Its nominal stars are the Beatles, but – except for a shatteringly effective minute at the end of the film – we never see them, only rather inept cartoon caricatures instead. The backgrounds against which their non-story evolves are, however, brilliantly chic, constituting not an anthology but a veritable roll-call – one might almost say a pillage – of every contemporary artist: Hockney, Lichtenstein, Oldenburg, Blake – you name…

Lidar technology on MBARI’s Low-Altitude Survey System (LASS) uses pulses of lasers to record the bathymetry, or underwater topography, on the seafloor at centimeter-scale resolution. Surveys with this sensor suite at a scour field 1,840 meters (6,037 feet) deep on the floor of Monterey Canyon revealed how turbidity currents (green) and tides (blue) affected the structure of the seafloor. Credit: Monica Wolfson-Schwehr, MBARI…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNetflix is facing backlash for bringing James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic back to the streamer days after the submarine tragedy that killed all five passengers on board.Earlier this month, as part of an expensive tourist attraction run by OceanGate, five people went on an undersea expedition to visit the wreckage of the Titanic.During their descent towards the wreckage, the submersible…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeNetflix is facing backlash for bringing James Cameron’s 1997 film Titanic back to the streamer days after the submarine implosion that killed five people.Earlier this month, as part of an expensive tourist attraction run by OceanGate, five wealthy tourists went on an undersea expedition to visit the wreckage of the Titanic.During their descent towards the wreckage, the submersible they…

A slew of users of the online prediction marketplace Polymarket are betting tens of thousands of dollars on whether the missing Titanic tourist submersible, named the Titan, will be found by midnight ET on June 23, at which point it is likely the five passengers onboard will have run out of oxygen. What Rules Were Written for Skrulls and Their Powers in Secret Invasion? | io9 InterviewAs of Thursday afternoon, users had bet more than $220,000 on the event. The Titanic exploration submersible initiated its journey with a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeTitanic director James Cameron has responded to the news of the confirmed deaths onboard the tourist submersible named Titan on Thursday (22 June).Officials have determined that the submarine, which went missing on an expedition to view the Titanic shipwreck on Sunday (18 June), experienced a “catastrophic implosion” killing all five passengers aboard.68-year-old Cameron is known for…

Investigators are currently racing against time in order to find the Titan, a small commercial submarine that went missing in the North Atlantic on Sunday with five people aboard. Now, new reporting reveals that the company behind the ill-fated underwater tour previously fired an employee after he expressed concern over the safety of the missing vehicle’s design.Apple's Bigger-Screen 15-inch MacBook Air | Gizmodo ReviewOceanGate Expeditions, which charters insanely expensive aquatic trips like the one that went awry this…

A frantic search is underway for a submersible that disappeared while on a $250,000-per-person dive carrying five tourists to view the historic Titanic shipwreck on Sunday. The submarine, which was operated with a video game controller, reportedly carried one pilot and four passengers when it lost contact off the coast of Cape Cod. Would-be rescuers say they have not located the vessel. Passengers are subsisting on a 96-hour supply of oxygen. Trump Went Through Twitter WithdrawalA search-and-rescue effort began after the…