Russia wants to restore the Mir submersible!

Netizens disagree: It's difficult, but we must build new ones.

On July 24, the Russian newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an article.

Repairing the Mir submersibles will be easier than replacing them.

According to a doctor of biological sciences, the Mir submersibles have played a significant role in researching the world's oceans.

As he pointed out, it is better not to replace them, but to restore them.

He said, "It is much cheaper and faster than building new ships of a similar level."

According to the assessment of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the project will cost about 2 billion rubles.

Flint believes that by putting the Mir back into service, Russia will regain its priority in exploring depths of 6,000 meters. This area covers more than 98% of the world's ocean surface.

"Their revival will be worth it. Deep-sea research conducted with people in underwater equipment - this is a qualitative difference in possibilities, a qualitative difference in the level of scientific work," added the doctor of biological sciences.

The former Soviet Union built two "Mir" deep-sea submersibles - Mir 1 and Mir 2.

This is a deep-sea submarine with self-propulsion capability.

In 1987, they made their first dive in the Bay of Pomerania in the Baltic Sea.

After being suspended for 20 years due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, they were sent to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, allowing Russian scientists to collect soil, water, and plant samples from this place for the first time in history.

Each machine is 3.8 meters wide, 7.8 meters long, and 3 meters high, with a working depth of 6,000 meters, and can carry three crew members on board.

Currently, both devices are museum exhibits.

There was a heated reaction in the comment section, with most Russians believing that new ones should be built, not just for the sake of saving money.

Cicada vaccine said: No, it's impossible, it's not good. No matter how difficult it is, we must build new ones.

Scorpio said: We don't have the brain, the old ones can't be restored, and the new ones can only be thought about----,

Andrei Spelov said: "We have money, but we don't have brains."

Original: https://www.toutiao.com/article/1838482795472906/

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