Is this sub story just another chapter in the ignore the experts / just do your own research / throw money at a problem / rules and regulations are just red tape there that stifles innovation
Could be cross posted to the Elon thread.
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Is this sub story just another chapter in the ignore the experts / just do your own research / throw money at a problem / rules and regulations are just red tape there that stifles innovation
Could be cross posted to the Elon thread.
Aw, hell no...
https://youtu.be/O-8U08yJlb8
Mmm, purlooQuote:
Originally Posted by frorider
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It’s getting really hard to keep up with the memes now that they’ve all merged the gentleman submersible, the orcas, and now the Russian half-revolt.
I just hope the whales win.
#metoo
This was a funky outfit in the big picture, but also in the small details...
Fucks sake, was there a corner anywhere at all that this guy didn't cut?Quote:
Over cigars one night, Rush told Weissmann that he got the carbon fiber for the Titan’s hull at a big discount because it was past its shelf-life for use in airplanes, Weissmann said. But Rush reassured him it was safe.
(Oh, and my brother just called me to say that Rush was his classmate in middle school in SF; said he was a nice kid.)
Has this made it here yet?
Over cigars one night, Rush told Weissmann that he got the carbon fiber for the Titan’s hull at a big discount because it was past its shelf-life for use in airplanes, Weissmann said. But Rush reassured him it was safe.
Heh.
What if the last sound on the recording before the catastrophe is the toilet flushing?
There's no way in the world I'm getting in that fucking thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
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It wasn't even a vessel. It was a tube with electronics attached to it. I mean WTF? Five people crammed into something the size of a bathtub. You sit on a metal floor. You can't stand up. You can't crawl. You can't even stretch your legs and the "bathroom" is a hole.Quote:
Originally Posted by ötzi
The guy was a billionaire. Couldn't he have built something more civilized? Are all deep submersibles like this?
Looks like Buck Rogers' space ship.
I wonder if they had drugs on board in case someone had a panic attack.
Did they do psych evals of passengers or was the only requirement that your check cleared?
Could possibly justify the 250k pricetag.Quote:
Originally Posted by KQ
Seriously. If 250k doesn't get you a proper seat it ought to at least help you get comfortable.Quote:
Originally Posted by BobMc
Watching them get sealed into that tube of death in the video was sobering.
They had cookies though
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Someone in this submarine approves.Quote:
Originally Posted by ticketchecker
https://youtu.be/LeYzjzl7cLI
These “influencers” are insufferable. Guy should go back to making videos of unboxing a pair of binoculars or whatever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I didn't find that guy insufferable at all. Shrug.
He was a bit too goofy for me. I would find him exhausting to be around but I suppose that's just my age showing. Def. would have been telling him to get off my lawn [emoji41]Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
I’m with Harry, had to fast forward a lot so I didn’t have to hear the forced optimism about everything, kid was insufferable.
It struck me when he said he was told it would maybe take 14 hours to come back up, my god that is crazy. Also the scene where they were trouble shooting the control system that randomly crashed, big hell no there. If I were crazy enough to go and sat in that meeting that would of been it.
Couldn’t pay me 100 billion to ride that even before the benefit of hindsight.
I made it 1 minute and shut it off. Insufferable twat