http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-07/china-pushes-plan-for-oceanic-space-station-in-south-china-sea
Reportedly the prototype/initial base will support 12 men. Then it will either be expanded or replaced so that it can support 33 men. It wil lbe nuclear powered and, contrary to earlier reports it will be a fixed seafloor habitat rather than a mobile submarine.
What is it for, /x/? Surely there are cheaper ways of accessing seafloor minerals. What if there's something else down there that the Chinese government alone knows about?
the irl sealab2021?
>>17791750
chinese are too jew to build shit properly, they'll drown to death before they find anything
>>17791750
bottom of the ocean before mars makes sense
>>17791750
The base might be a test platform for several new mining technologies, and one of them may see daylight or not.
>>17792431
That or... China may be trying to brake America with MIC catch-up spending.
Probably for microorganism testing and storage, but it could be a deep sea research station.
BioShock...that is all.
It's a fucking sub base for a future war in the pacific against Japan and SK.
Look at the poor state of their carrier capabilities and tin can air force, it's the only way to protect their newly acquired offshore assets.
If they can't take out naval threats, they'll lose air superiority and have to rely on SAMs to protect their hordes of infantry from getting bullied by stealth aircraft.
Building a Bond villain-esque sub base is the same thing the Krauts and then Ivan tried.
We in the west should recognize this for what it was then and what it is now; fear and desperation leading to plans of using wunder-strategie to win against a superior enemy.
If this development threatens us, I'm sure this base will have a mysterious explosion in the night delivered from orbit a la Tianjin.
>>17791833
That's public buildings. This is a government facility.
>>17792518
Have you seen Gravity? That movie proves manned spaceflight is doomed, so we should stop trying, right?
>>17792540
Would orbital weapons even work against a target this far underwater?
>>17792562
As underwater combat seems to deal with delivering massive shock waves to the target, I'd say yes.
If you're worried about a bit of seawater dampening the fireworks, why not fire an evenly spaced volley to displace some of it first so the later shots can have an effect?
>>17792573
I meant rods from god. If it's a missile there will be time to track and intercept it.
>>17792574
As did I.
>>17791750
This sounds like, if it is what it sounds like, a doomsday safe for people...
If cali breaks off the safest place would be west of the Marrianas Trench as the plate will be forced into a quick folding. The volcanic release will also make much of the ring of fire be slingin slag comets so it would be good to be relatively underwater.
I guess all those years of oil platform (terraforming) research wasn't all for nothing...
>scratches head
What it is 'going' to be used for, there are a plethora of possibilities...
>>17792540
I remember reading about an antarctic submarine base with nuclear capabilities that the US built. Allegedly its stocked for 50 years of independent operation for warfare.
I've completely forgotten what the base was called. It was supposed to be scrapped or suspended, but knowing the United States military, they just said that so people would forget about it.
>>17794017
Another diagram
>>17791750
Because it's always China building survival structures
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>>17791750
I mean its probably just practice for space mining, its got similar problems (pressure & corrosion not withstanding) so its alright moving forward.
>>17794022
>>17794017
these were plans from the early 60s that never got built, the main problem was population.. sure you stock and power the subs to fight on but how do you crew them? no women down there to breed with etc
>>17794017
>>17794022
It's like Iron Sky but Ameriburgers instead of Nazis, and the ocean floor instead of the Moon.
Imagine if a Russo-Chinese alliance believed they totally wiped us out, only for our subs to wipe out their navy, then nuke the rest of their military infrastructure into molten slag
>>17794076
I hope they have stimutacs!
I really need the strength of a bear that has the strength of 2 bears!
AAHHHHH!
>>17791750
>What if there's something else down there that the Chinese government alone knows about?
That they need their presence, inhaited shit included, in the South China Sea?
Oh no.
>>17794330
They can do this with artificial islands much more cheaply.
>>17792573
>>17792574
>>17792576
That's exactly what happened in Tianjin. Notice the multiple impacts and explosions.
>it was chemicals!
I won't even warrant that nonsense with a reply, that's facebook mom tier knowledge of conspiracies
