What ever became...

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I have read exhaustively about this. There were 70 of these stations active worldwide at their peak. That we know of. The Soviets had their own, most of which we'll never know anything about.

To the best of my knowledge only the US still openl y operates one for scientific purposes.

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Autec is probably one.

And they're probably past the experimentation stage and into implementation.

>>14953852
>You will never have aquatic date night in your underwater hidey hole with your marine biologist waifu.

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The Soviet habitats like Chernomor involved "psychoisolation" experiments. The popular belief at the time was that humans are psychically connected all the time and there are so many voices it's like a static we subconsciously tune out. When there were far fewer humans on Earth this sixth sense worked properly but rapid population growth made it maladaptive, so we evolved a mute buttom to avoid going insane.

The experiments were intended to immerse human subjects deep underwater as it's a near perfect radiation shield and have them attempt telepathic communication with each other. Nothing came of it because our brains do not actually work that way.

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>>14953931
But you can do that now for about 600 bux. www.jul.com

what would it take to build a place like that on our own

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>>14953960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE0vVje7vMY

30 grand for a single 2 person dealie about the size of a ups van inside, like OPs image

Or 1.4 mil for 4 of em, like in the video, which will sleep 6 people plus one hab just as a common area with kitchen and tv

No where near as expensive as space, but still not cheap.

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Who fucking knows what they've been doing down there since the 70s. The kind of shit they don't ever want the public to know about.

China's all over this stuff too. I read fhey're planning nuclear powered, manned deep sea mining bases.

>>14954016
so... about as much as a small house...

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>>14954042
Yup. There may be cheaper methods like inflatables, but I wouldn't vouch for their safety.

http://boingboing.net/2010/08/26/inside-a-nevada-fami.html

>>14953852
They probably realized that people can live underwater, but it's a lot cheaper to not

>>14954016
wait, in what fucking world does 30k x 4 = 1.4mil
what the actual fuck?

I understand that bolting them together and sealing them would cost a little more than 120k but even then. Just what the fuck, is what I want to say.

For 1.4 mil, I'd expect something fucking gigantic. Since you are not taking up anyones space etc.

>>14953852
That chick looks hot

>>14953880
look he's bought ready to choke that mother fucker on day 800 for wearing short shorts again 799 days in a row

>>14954269
i know hey, trap me under with her ill come up with some babies godammit

>>14953852
>Did it really just stop, or continue in secret?
well they continue to operate submarines so I think so

>>14954196

Added cost of additional life support equipment, transport and emplacement costs, electronics, ballast weight. Etc. There is more to it than what you see in the pictures. They also hired a surface support crew to monitor them in case shit went wrong.

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>>14954269
>>14954285

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>>14954269
>>14954285

Begin ur lust

I know want to start an underwater cult.

Who wants in?

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>>14954285
>>14954269

>>14954361
yeah makes sense.

If that was something a person could do themselves it would obviously be way cheaper.

>>14954378
Already worship Dagon, works for me.

>>14954378
Fuck it, I'm doing nothing with my life.

>>14954378
im in

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>>14954382

If you do all of it yourself, it can be done for maybe 5 grand but it'll be small.

>>14954393
>>14954394
Alright, we will need to find living arrangements in one of these things. From there, we will begin creating our moral code and slowly converting any other tenants.

I vote we start out as a group of christians who slowly beging to replace doctrine with our own practices, so people ease into the cult mindset slowly over time.

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Cult teachings:

We must return to the sea and evolve to be like Dagon
We will take dolphin brides
We will surgically modify our bodies for the water and later genetically modify offspring
Ritualistic use of hallucinogens and blood drenched orgies
Forsake dry land, the sun and the surface world
Until the day we rise, as something beyond human, to cleanse it

>>14954436
>tfw no dolphin pussy

>>14954436
Blood from what? I vote octopods.

Also pain rituals using jellyfish.

>>14954474 #
Sharks. Octibros are intelligent and friendly as well as potentially trainable, or at least excellent pets.

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>>14954417
Us if we stay underneath for 20 years with minimal sunlight

>>14954500
Its evolution, you moron! We will become better than human!

>>14954498
A pet octopus? I like it.

Sharks however, may be too dangerous. Pain can be enlightening, but sharks can be fatal.

I say sharks are best use to deal with those who oppose us once we have established control.

>>14954498
Oh, you meant shark blood. Nevermind.

Full approval.

>>14954559
Use implants to mind control the sharks. They cam sarficie themselves to block torpedos or depth charges and patrol constantly for Navy infiltration divers.

>>14953944
Yeah, but where's the swagtastic 70's decor?

>>14954443
Dude you have no idea.
Their vag has like a massage function. Shit's cray.

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>>14954603
We'll have to ensure that makes it into the design obviously, as it's mission critical.

Alright guys, i feel good about this.

What name shall we choose?

We need something fitting of our swanky 70s decor, but also our commitment to the all powerful ocean and its blessings.

>>14954651
Where was the shit stored?
Also why the hell is this asshole smoking?

>>14954675
Shit went up a tube to the septic tank of the boat chilling overhead. Also where the air compressor that supplied their fresh air was mounted.

That's Jacques Cousteau. The one who looks like an auschwitz survivor. He is french so of course he brought wine, cigarettes and a woman. Also a parrot.

>>14954675
>>14954702

/x/: poop questions

>>14954669
I've got a few:
Sealab 2014
Order of Aquarius
The Poseidon Adventure (because creativity)

I like the Aquarius one. It was a popular motif back in the day, plus we could call ourselves Aquarians, which has a groovy, somewhat mysterious ring to it.

Whats the point of this?
You're going to have to come up to land eventually whether it be for:
>Restocking supplies
>Repairs
>Vitamin D

>>14954407
anything to protect from nuclear threat

>>14955208
Maybe your operating a super secret nuclear submarine that stays submerged for days. Who knows?

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>>14954277

LOL

>>14954443
There is, somewhere on the net, a video of a man fucking a dolphin. B had it a couple nights ago.

>>14953933
It's hard to believe the atheist communists were that superstitious/paranoid. That sounds more like something the nazis would do.

>>14954498
We can make octopi our trained shuggoth slaves

>>14955208
Food supplies can be caught from ocean, we can have a restocking crew who serve the cult but don't live as members of it, vitamin d can be provided by lightboxes

So does anyone know if anyone besides the US and Soviets did underwater experiments like this?

>>14954436

I've been hit by jellies a few times in my life, and I can say, conclusively, FUCK THAT.

>>14954987

I like it. Order of Aquarius. Has a neat ring to it.

Personally, Im ok with an all fish and algae diet.

Lets do this.

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I hereby nominate myself for the position of interior decorator.

>>14957306
voted

>>14956024
Fuck yes, fish and algae are paleo as fuark.
We all gon get shredded brahs.

I wonder whatever became of this dude.

http://underseacolony.com/prime/mainhub_revA.html

>>14953898
What am I meant to be looking at in that picture?

If its the dark patch which runs through the shallows, that has pretty obviously been deepens to allow access to vessels.

>>14953933
>Nothing came of it because our brains do not actually work that way.
Citations?

>>14957634
Different person, but your citations are, "all of reality, to date." The supposition there was never sponsored by fact, it was just haphazard conjecture in opposition to all known precedent.

>>14957644
Citations?

>>14957662
Shut the fuck up

>>14957665
Why are you getting so mad? Are there angry people around you right now?

>>14957667
Shhhhhhhh

>>14957669
Is this a library?

>>14955612
See yeah, for cult purposes, holidaying and "just for fun" is the only reason we'd bother thinking of these.
Going self-sufficient Captain Nemo style is impossible.

>>14954498
preach it.cthulhu fhtagn

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Are we gonna get uniforms?

These would look good on male or female.

>>14955556
sauce?

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Our best bet for a structure would be some sort of spoked-wheel thing, with multi-story pods radiating out from a central hub.

Sorta like this, but without all that glass. Don't need the whole colony knowing who I'm shagging.

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this thread is such supreme win

>>14955571
>atheist communists

you can believe in as few gods as you want, but you can't fix the stupidity of a backwater nation of dirt farmers overnight...

instead of skyscrapers why don't kids build giant underground bunkers?

>>14957993
>implying that the Soviets involved in politics and science were dirt farmers

>>14958000
I used to build ginormous blanket tents as a kid. Things that would take up entire rooms.

>>14955612
Three words: Shark Assault Crew

We can loot passing ships for supplies and give crew members a chance to learn our ways.

>>14957703
>tfw no turtleneck-wearing undersea cult gf

>>14958328
Can sharks be trained? Whales can, dolphins can.

Has anyone ever trained a shark?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5428522/Sharks-can-be-cuddled-like-dolphins-say-scientists.html

Aquarians, let us begin! We shall ride sharks in unity, praise the ocean!

>>14953852
looks like vault-tec is now conducting social experiments

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>>14957634
>Citations?

>>14958346
i seriously doubt theyre smart enough to be trained any farther than just "aiming" them at tasty stuff
itd be like trying to teach a catfish tricks

>>14958650
>>14958444

I chose the impossible. I chose rapture.

>>14957993
Those dirt farmers put the first man into space.

>>14961124
>implying that wasnt staged

http://4archive.org/x/thread/14953852

>>14961124
Whoop de fucking doo. The US went to the moon and left some really cool shit and took some boring ass rocks in return. By comparison, all they did was go really, really high. Fucker had to parachute out anyway since the engineers didn't trust their own death ball.

>>14954366
How does the water not float up into it?

>>14962534
lol get a load of this faglord.

>>14962487
>By comparison, all they did was go really, really high.
He made it into orbit, unlike the first yank who went up.

First satellite, first animal, first man, first moon probe, first mars probe and so on all go to the dirt farmers.
Let's see who goes to mars first, I wouldn't bet on the nation that has to hire other nations spacecraft for lack of their own.

>>14962577
I'd like to know ;_;
:-D

>>14962534
The air pressure inside. Same concept when you hold a cup upside down and put it underwater, and it holds a pocket of air.

>>14962586
Do they have to have some sort of system maintaining the pressure then?

>>14962583
>First!
Tell me again what that's supposed mean? Because being first means shit if you don't follow up with anything useful. US Jews are better than Dirt farmer Jews, so I know where to bet my money on.

This was such a enjoyable thread but then you guys made it into your proving grounds for a new /x/ile SLASH motherfucking cult. Like always!

>>14962584
Okay so you know how you cup your hands and put it in water and a bubble forms? Same thing.
The air only can go upward but since there's the metal above it, it stays where it is and pushes the water out.

>>14962591
As long as air isn't entering or leaving in excess amounts, no. As I said:

>Same concept when you hold a cup upside down and put it underwater, and it holds a pocket of air.

Also, air is lighter then water, so as long as you have a way to hold the air in place like in that setup the water wont enter. Put a hole some where in the rig near the top and air will begin escaping and the water will move into the rig to fill the space being left by the air. It's simple fluid dynamics.

>>14962583
>the nation that has to hire other nations spacecraft for lack of their own.
At least that's changing finally(hopefully). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Launch_System

>>14962643
Ok, I get that. But presumably the air is cycled to keep it fresh and breathable. So where does the new air come from? I may be wrong, but I figure that the air that was originally there when it was made doesn't stay forever.

>>14962651
It was mentioned back up there. There is a unit on the surface that cycles out the air and keeps up the pressure.

>>14953933
>Nothing came of it because our brains do not actually work that way.
Holy shit, this made me crack up. 10/10, best anti-pasta ever.

>>14955556

You may be mistaking it for a crocodile.

Shit was disgusting.

>>14962651
>but I figure that the air that was originally there when it was made doesn't stay forever.

How would it even leave? If you're talking about actually breathing it, all you're doing is exchanging the Oxygen for Carbon Dioxide. The volume of air present in the rig doesn't change. This is in a closed system obviously.

In one where you're getting fresh air from the surface, a simple compressor on the surface maintains pressure while supplying air to the rig.

>jew and commie discussions on /x/

please don't do this guys, this was my safe haven. I get enough of this on /pol/, I just want to read about spoopy skellingtons and underwater bases here

>>14962696
I guess I meant it would leave from the system, since the now carbon dioxide rich air would need to be removed. It makes sense though when you say that some sort of pump or air pressure system is used, because it's slowly removing bad air and replacing it with oxygen rich air. I say further up in the thread here >>14954407
something about a BioCoil thing which seems to perform that function. What I'm interested in is where it's getting the oxygen from. I know that it's absorbing the carbon dioxide, but I don't understand how it's producing new, good air. Does it draw it through the water by some method, like that breather device they had in The Phantom Menace?

>>14962724
When you breath Oxygen, it's converted to Carbon Dioxide. When the Algae in the coil breaths Carbon Dioxide, it's converted to Oxygen. There is no change in the volume of air in the rig. No air is entering or leaving the system in this process.

>>14962744
Ok, I get it now. Thanks for putting it into simple terms, I understand now.

>>14958444
Construction shall begin immediately, someone call /diy/.

And this shall be our theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvdn2a9EFf4

>>14954500
Bathing in UV for twenty minutes a day will probably help us maintain a normal complexion.

>>14953852
Wow that sounds like it would be a fun experiment to be a part of. I'd volunteer. I'd spend all day looking out the window seeing if I could spot giant squid or even the 52 herz whale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale

>>14954407
>water delivered from surface world
>not filtering or distilling salt water
That could also have turbines which generate power from tides or ocean currents.

>>14962591
No, they just have to make sure they don't run out of Oxygen.

>>14963577
>conducting pain rituals and orgies to that song

Might be ok.

>>14964932

Interesting!

>>14957611
Interesting. We should infiltrate that.

>>14954436
better than hfy shit

>>14965302
If he even gets this one off the ground.

>>14964932
Can the other whales even here those calls?

>>14954407
That looks insanely dangerous.

>>14954366
nice i wonder if there is any porn movie with this subject

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>>14957703
At least we now know where Roddenberry got his costume ideas.

>>14953852
Aquarius is still running:

http://aquarius.fiu.edu/