Missing Titanic Submersible

[stuckathuntermtn]

I understand he's very professional on the set, so Cruise probably does things the opposite of how Rush did them.
Ya know, actually taking advice from experts and spending money on testing and safety and all that.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Wow. Fake it til you make it was replaced with fake it til you break it.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...src=AUTO_PRINT

[stuckathuntermtn]

Anyone who took one look at that janky piece of shit should have known it was an accident waiting to happen. It looks like such a kludge that "accident" is a very liberal word to use.

[stuckathuntermtn]

How about a piper cub and a treadmill on either side of the crossing?

Those'll kill ya. I would know.

[bobz]

Wow. Fake it til you make it was replaced with fake it til you break it.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...src=AUTO_PRINT

One tidbit in that article is that the submersible was registered in the Bahamas and officially owned by a Bahamian entity, apparently to stay out of the reach of US laws and regulations, yay Libertarianism. So, uhhh... I guess the Bahamian government will be covering the costs of attempted rescue and recovery. Right???

[bennymac]

Wow. Fake it til you make it was replaced with fake it til you break it.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...src=AUTO_PRINT

“It’s not about being a disruptor. It’s about the laws of physics.”

Gawd that sentence could apply to so many topics over the last 5 years

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

“It’s not about being a disruptor. It’s about the laws of physics.”

He did his own research.

[From_the_NEK]

A few weeks later, McDevitt contacted OceanGate, noting that he was looking into Lochridge’s firing as a whistle-blower-protection matter. OceanGate’s lawyer Thomas Gilman soon issued Lochridge a court summons: he had ten days to withdraw his osha claim and pay OceanGate almost ten thousand dollars in legal expenses. Otherwise, Gilman wrote, OceanGate would sue him, take measures to destroy his professional reputation, and accuse him of immigration fraud. Gilman also reported to osha that Lochridge had orchestrated his own firing because he “wanted to leave his job and maintain his ability to collect unemployment benefits.” (McDevitt, of osha, notified the Coast Guard of Lochridge’s complaint. There is no evidence that the Coast Guard ever followed up.)

Lochridge received the summons while he was at his father’s funeral. He and his wife hired a lawyer, but it quickly became clear that “he didn’t have the money to fight this guy,” Lahey told me. (Lochridge declined to be interviewed.) Lahey covered the rest of the expenses, but, after more than half a year of legal wrangling, and threats of deportation, Lochridge withdrew his whistle-blower claim with osha so that he could go on with his life. Lahey was crestfallen. “He didn’t consult me about that decision,” Lahey recalled. “It’s not that he had to—it was his fight, not mine. But I was underwriting the cost of it, because I believed in the idea that this inspection report, which he wouldn’t share with anybody, needed to see the light of day.”

Holy fuck, if you didn't think Rush was a bonified narcissistic glory seeking asshole, this pretty much adds that final nail to his self made coffin.

[Core Shot]

I feel like there's an aquatic moped comment in here somewhere.

No fat chicks on aquatic mopeds

[SkiBall]

https://twitter.com/GraffitiRadical/...521303040?s=20

[highangle]

[bennymac]

Wow. Fake it til you make it was replaced with fake it til you break it.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...src=AUTO_PRINT

Thanks for linking that - perfect article to sum up the hubris and willful ignorance.

[LongShortLong]

15 minutes about the efforts to find/rescue Titan using various submersibles.

[BmillsSkier]

Oh man, there’s outrage, outrage I tells ya about that sign!!!

It’s almost like those offended missed the last 3 weeks of memes and gallows humor on top of forgetting that Subway corporate probably doesn’t approve each and every marquis message. Oh well, at least they’ll move on in a week when something else fills their social media feed.

[JimmyCarter]

Oh man, there’s outrage, outrage I tells ya about that sign!!!

It’s almost like those offended missed the last 3 weeks of memes and gallows humor on top of forgetting that Subway corporate probably doesn’t approve each and every marquis message. Oh well, at least they’ll move on in a week when something else fills their social media feed.

I thought it was understood that subway was tasteless?

[BmillsSkier]

I thought it was understood that subway was tasteless?

LOL.

There’s also a Chris Hansen joke in here somewhere but that would actually be insensitive.

[Mazderati]

If the transcript between the sub and support ship is real the people on board had 20 minutes to think about what was happening.

[BmillsSkier]

If the transcript between the sub and support ship is real the people on board had 20 minutes to think about what was happening.

Ugh, pass.

[Supermoon]

If the transcript between the sub and support ship is real the people on board had 20 minutes to think about what was happening.

Yikes.

[Dantheman]

Ugh, pass.

x2

[LongShortLong]

If the transcript between the sub and support ship is real the people on board had 20 minutes to think about what was happening.

Some say the transcript is fake, but if it's true -
They were descending about 50% too fast, and they didn't notice, but maybe the control ship did and didn't communicate that properly. And they heard various noises. And had trouble dropping ballast, Then dropped the landing frame too, after which they were rising slowly. Lots of "red lights" including the carbon fiber hull and the power system. Then nothing more was heard that morning.

Maybe someone ate too many subs and lied about their weight. (not really, dropping the landing frame would offset a few hundred pounds)

This guy discusses, though I think he overdramatizes, but so do most media types
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dj8IJbP41c

[old goat]

“It’s not about being a disruptor. It’s about the laws of physics.”

Gawd that sentence could apply to so many topics over the last 5 years

Yeah, "move fast and break things'" works better for social media than for submersibles.

[LongShortLong]

Yeah, "move fast and break things'" works better for social media than for submersibles.

Does it though? How much bad policy is due to social media? I choose 4 dead billionaires over social media electing autocrats and populist idiots.

[JimmyCarter]

In case anyone wondered what asshole billionaire’s asshole son has been up to since the accident:

[fomofo]

In case anyone wondered what asshole billionaire’s asshole son has been up to since the accident:

Sticking with the nautical theme and rich-folk-behaving-badlyTriangle of Sadness is now streaming on Kanopy.