Oh dear...

[doodab]

BBC News - Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down

That's an expensive failure.

[cojak]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thresher_(SSN-593) Better than this one ... Very nasty.

http://youtu.be/ha90jo3cnZI

[DimPrawn]

BBC News - Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down

That's an expensive failure.

This costs more.

3 bedroom flat for sale in Portman Towers, George Street, London, W1H

[NickFitz]

Wonder if the conspiracy theorists have started on it yet.

Something like: it was destroyed by the Chinese because it was going to be used to look for Flight MH370 and would have discovered that the plane isn't in the Indian Ocean after all, which would make people start looking elsewhere and they'd find it hidden on a top secret airstrip in Tibet.

[NickFitz]

Blog post from the project team: A sad day :: HADES - interesting for the several systems designed to let it get back to the surface in case of communications breakdown, though of course they weren't any use in this case.

[doodab]

Blog post from the project team: A sad day :: HADES - interesting for the several systems designed to let it get back to the surface in case of communications breakdown, though of course they weren't any use in this case.

It is a say day. That was pretty much the state of the art in deep sea exploration at the moment and they had quite a program mapped out over the next few years, it was in Sci Am a month or so back. Given how little we actually know about those sort of depths it's a real loss to science.

[evilagent]

BBC News - Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down

That's an expensive failure.

The next step is to find out why it failed, and build a better boat.

[KentPhilip]

This costs more.

3 bedroom flat for sale in Portman Towers, George Street, London, W1H

5 million quid for a large central London flat.

Insane.

And look at the side bar on that advert, showing some of the historical prices for flats in that block:

17 Jan 2014 76, Portman Towers, George Street, W1H £2,900,000
14 Dec 2012 69, Portman Towers, George Street, W1H £1,900,000
17 Dec 2009 48, Portman Towers, George Street, W1H £675,000

And in 2002 one of them sold for only £275,000

[OwlHoot]

This costs more.

3 bedroom flat for sale in Portman Towers, George Street, London, W1H

That's utterly bonkers for the floor area - Marylebone isn't even a prime area like Knightsbridge AFAIK.

It isn't even one of those grand old high-ceilinged places, just a grotty tower block by the look of it.

[doodab]

That's utterly bonkers for the floor area - Marylebone isn't even a prime area like Knightsbridge AFAIK.

It depends. If you're talking about the area from the north side of oxford street up to the ring road or places around regents park then you are talking serious money. It might not be mayfair or knightsbridge but it's pretty close.