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re: US Navy to install XBox controllers for periscopes
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:12 pm to Tigeralum2008
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:12 pm to Tigeralum2008
As long as they've been playing around with them, I'm surprised they haven't developed their own controller or at the least upgraded to either an elite or ps4 (current).
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:27 pm to SeeeeK
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Xbox>>>>>>>Sony
American company >>>>>>>> Japanese company.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:04 pm to Tigeralum2008
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The current photonic mast controls cost roughly $38,000, whereas an Xbox 360 controller can be bought online for about $20.
Now this is something that I can get behind.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:11 pm to Rouge
Only if it drives the price up, we like em.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:15 pm to upgrayedd
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It's like how we spent all that money on pens that write in space and the Russians just used a pencil.
That's false you know?
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NASA never asked Paul C. Fisher to produce a pen. When the astronauts began to fly, like the Russians, they used pencils, but the leads sometimes broke and became a hazard by floating in the [capsule’s] atmosphere where there was no gravity. They could float into an eye or nose or cause a short in an electrical
device. In addition, both the lead and the wood of the pencil could burn rapidly in the pure oxygen atmosphere. Paul Fisher realized the astronauts needed a safer and more dependable writing instrument, so in July 1965 he developed the pressurized ball pen, with its ink enclosed in a sealed, pressurized ink cartridge.
Fisher sent the first samples to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Director of the Houston Space Center. The pens were all metal except for the ink, which had a flash point above 200°C. The sample Space Pens were thoroughly tested by NASA. They passed all the tests and have been used ever since on all manned space flights, American and Russian. All research and development costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government. Because of the fire in Apollo 1, in which three Astronauts died, NASA required a writing instrument that would not burn in a 100% oxygen atmosphere. It also had to work in the extreme conditions of outer space:
In a vacuum.
With no gravity.
In hot temperatures of +150°C in sunlight and also in the cold shadows of space where the temperatures drop to -120°C
(NASA tested the pressurized Space Pens at -50°C, but because of the residential [sic] heat in the pen it also writes for many minutes in the cold shadows.)
Fisher spent over one million dollars in trying to perfect the ball point pen before he made his first successful pressurized pens in 1965. Samples were immediately sent to Dr. Robert Gilruth, Manager of the Houston Space Center, where they were thoroughly tested and approved for use in Space in September 1965. In December 1967 he sold 400 Fisher Space Pens to NASA for $2.95 each.
Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968. Fisher Space Pens are more dependable than lead pencils and cannot create the hazard of a broken piece of lead floating through the gravity-less atmosphere.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:32 pm to Tigeralum2008
Just another reason why XBOX > PlayStation.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:33 pm to Tigeralum2008
$38k replaced by something that costs $20? MAGA
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:55 pm to Tigeralum2008
Whatever keeps them from running into shite.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:57 pm to Tigeralum2008
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This post was edited on 10/19/21 at 10:18 pm
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:59 pm to Tigeralum2008
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Xbox 360 controller
I mean pc gaming is tGOAT so I don't see why a mouse and keyboard wouldn't be just as effective
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:59 pm to Tigeralum2008
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OOD: Up Scope NavET: Sir, I am sorry but I can't execute that command OOD: Why the Hell Not? NavET: I forgot to charge the controller
360 controllers are hardwired
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:59 pm to Tigeralum2008
I've actually wondered for some time when they might start doing this.
This post was edited on 9/19/17 at 7:01 pm
Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:26 pm to Tigeralum2008
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an Xbox 360 controller can be bought online for about $20.
I'm sure we will negotiate with Microsoft to buy them direct in bulk for $7,000 a piece.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:32 pm to Tigeralum2008
If they're serious, give everything a Youporn interface.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:39 pm to Tigeralum2008
"That sailor there is playing Galaga. Didn't think we'd notice."
Posted on 9/19/17 at 7:48 pm to stout
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All research and development costs were paid by Paul Fisher. No development costs have ever been charged to the government.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 8:20 pm to nes2010
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Not only is the Xbox 360 controller easier to use, it's also more cost effective. The current photonic mast controls cost roughly $38,000, whereas an Xbox 360 controller can be bought online for about $20.
Someone is losing their gravy train.
The Pentagon will gladly pay $38,000 for an Xbox controller.
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