Yeh, I figured surfacing it would help.
(oh god, no pun intended here)
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So when do the tours of the tour wreckage site begin…/s (?)
This from the coast guard makes me a bit quesy, given the other recent boating disater which could have been avoided with somewhat less gear.
US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger said teams had the appropriate gear in the search effort for the Titan submersible.
Teams were “able to mobilize an immense amount of gear to the site in just really a remarkable amount of time,” he said Thursday, especially “given the fact that we started without any sort of vessel response plan for this or any sort of pre-staged resources.”
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Why admire the engineering when it was probably their third-rate corner-cutting that got them killed?
Maybe now CNN can focus on Supreme Court corruption or something.
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I’m guessing it was something that failed on the sub with out it hitting anything. Like the porthole not rated for 4000m. Or the carbonfiber which couldn’t be tested for weak spots or errors.
For the 4 adults, I am filing this under “play stupid games…”
The 19 year old likely was relying on his dad and didn’t know any better.
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In other words…
Quick, but far from painless.
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That demo is from just one atmosphere of pressure. The depth they are believed to have imploded at would have been 345 atmospheres. To quote xkcd on an unrelated hypothetical catastrophe: “You wouldn’t really die of anything, in the traditional sense.You would just stop being biology and start being physics.”
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Even worse.
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In the span of a millisecond. Too quick to even realize anything happened.
Meanwhile, prescience from 2022:
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The most charitable explanation is specialist as in “has read an unhealtny number of pop history books about the Titanic and won’t shut up about it”.
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Faster than the nerve impulses that would carry any sensation to the brain, right? They would literally not feel a thing.
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Then you’ll be paying for the cost of the rescue efforts, right?
Yeah, so don’t go conducting any ghoulish, overpriced, tourist visits to the site of the debris from where the Titan went down. That would be disrespectful or something.
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Perhaps the implosion happened at the moment the sub lost comms with its mothership during its initial descent. Reportedly, though, the sub used to lose comms on every outing. We’ll probably never know what happened.
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Same with (for example) children who have fallen into wells and need rescuing. White children top the list of news coverage for such events.
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Suffixing your name with a “Gate” never ends well. See Heaven’s Gate.
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Also, if you’re bound and determined to make it out of carbon fiber, for God’s sake don’t make it a cylinder. Compressive strength perpendicular to the length axis is going to be garbage compared to e.g. a sphere. Gluing on a couple of hemispherical endcaps doesn’t cut it.
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