• @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    The best part is that it’s a coffin. Even if they get to the surface, they are still bolted in from the outside. Also it has no flares, no redundancies, no balloon that floats up, absolutely no backups in case anything goes wrong. No reasonable person would look at this and think: “Yep! Perfect excursion for my vacation!”

    • Yardy Sardley
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      292 years ago

      I can still barely believe it’s real. The Titanic is a living monument to the importance of safety regulations, slowly dissolving at the bottom of the ocean because its builders and operators were a little too presumtuous with their risk assessment. With that in mind, why wouldn’t you name your rickety deathtrap of a submarine “Titan” of all fucking things, plot a course to the wreckage, and proceed with a similarly cavalier attitude towards safety and a considerable lack of contingency planning? It’s like they wanted to see exactly how much temptation fate was capable of resisting.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      No, the craziest part is how staunchly anti safety regulation the company’s founder was. Per NPR:

      The Titan, the small submersible operated by a Washington state-based company called OceanGate, gives tours primarily in international waters, which means the experimental vessel avoided most U.S. safety rules.

      In a 2019 interview with Smithsonian magazine, OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush — currently missing aboard the Titan — complained about government rules.

      “There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It’s obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations,” Rush told the magazine. “But it also hasn’t innovated or grown — because they have all these regulations.”

    • PropaGandalf
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      12 years ago

      …and pay some hundert thousands dallons to get a traumatizing, claustrophobic experience

    • Scrof
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      12 years ago

      Jesus… Not exactly seaworthy is it?

  • keeb420
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    while i do have some empathy for them. if you were homeless theyd walk right over top of you on their way to spend $250,000 to view the titanic from a morons submarine and not even think about helping.

  • Overzeetop
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    202 years ago

    What do you call three billionaires trapped at the bottom of the ocean?

    A good start.

    (with apologies to lawyers, who were the OG subject of this joke)

  • @[email protected]
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    152 years ago

    Guys, I’m making a new submarine. Can you tell Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk I’d really like them on board? Anyone with a yacht is welcome.

  • Dyggvi
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    132 years ago

    While I’m against capitalists as much as the next person here, wishing death on them is a bit harsh.

      • moosetwin
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        -32 years ago

        You people can be so callous sometimes, they’re still actual people. I know you people hate rich snobs not spending their money on things that actually matter, (cough cough not going to the fucking titanic for fun) but just because they’re some rich assholes you think they deserve to die.

        • @[email protected]
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          132 years ago

          It’s OK to acknowledge that some people actively make the world a worse place for many other people.

        • @[email protected]
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          82 years ago

          This week a ship with immigrants sank by the greek coast. Hundreds of people are missing and likely dead, no one send help. There are children starving in poverty around the clock while we technically do produce enough food in the world to end world hunger (most ends in the trash) the logistics are deemed too expensive. Of course we should recognize that the submarine passengers are people and the loss of life is always tragic but the millions of spend capital, resources and media attention saving specifically those 5 is a bitter reminder of the cruelty of our world. This is the internet, we are allowed a laugh, even if its dark sometimes.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Moreover, nobody gets that rich without screwing us, the workers. Why shouldn’t we rejoice when people who actively make our lives worse get their due?

    • @[email protected]
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      Don’t worry they will be back. their brain was downloaded before they left, they are still working out the kinks of training an instantance of chatGPT on the brain data and getting it to run in a Boston dynamics atalis body.

      • Dyggvi
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        12 years ago

        Our bleak world gets more dystopian by the day.

  • Child Eater
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    If anyone is interested in the specifics of why the titan expedition was a terrible idea, here is a video of a submarine pilot/expert explaining it in detail based off the information that is public.

    TLDW: a lot

    Disclaimer: I know nothing about submarines or anything of the sort. I make no claim regarding the legitimacy of this video.

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    Am I a bad person for laughing at this?

    I have to admit that I’m more than a little tired of the entitlement of billionaires.

  • @[email protected]
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    42 years ago

    I’m out of the loop on this. Was the sub actually controlled by a Logitech game controller?

    • kopper [they/them]
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      Yes, and apparently things like that are standard.

      IIRC the US military buys genuine Xbox controllers, but the only source I have for that is another Lemmy comment so take it with more salt than however much manages to seep into the submarine from the ocean water.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      Yes, but it did also have hardwired emergency controls that they could use if the controller failed.

      Compare that to Crew Dragon, which flies Astronauts to the ISS with a touchscreen (also with a backup)