unfortunately, it is totally possible to make that trip if you have a submarine that wasn’t designed by a startup-brained moron
they’ll probably be fine
Yeah, I’m not sure what point he’s trying to prove. Of course the industry is safe, that’s what all the safety requirements when building and operating a submarine is all about.
thats the point though there kinda aren’t any requirements I thought? Its all voluntary iirc?
There are standards, that’s why the OceanGate rich fools also had to sign a waiver acknowledging that the craft was not certified at all
The standards are if James Cameron writes you a letter that says “Damn dude you’re gonna fucking die you dumb motherfucker. Eywa is gonna hear you when you’re becoming crab food at the bottom of the ocean.” You have to up your game.
James Cameron has the woke mind virus, do not listen to him billionaires like Elon Musk. Build sheet metal tubes and plunge yourselves to the darkest depths of the ocean it’s safe.
I’m legitimately convinced we could solve the musk problem by saying that woke moralists are trying to impose their will through draconian reinforced double hull theories.
I guess a lot of standards are this way to some extent but like, a voluntary certification produced by some random company for profit is barely a standard at all, when it comes to certification of life-safety-critical equipment. That’s what I meant by “kinda aren’t any requirements, it’s all voluntary”.
It’s kinda silly that the guy who tries to go out to sea in a plastic bubble or whatever gets stopped by the coast guard but rich idiots they’re like “go ahead sir right away sir”
Like with most thing there’s all those requirements are to get government funding. (That red tape you hear people who don’t know what delta p means whining about)
Any numbnuts can put a bucket over their head and jump off a ship in the middle of the ocean.
Triton Submersibles is actually one of those companies that knows what they’re doing. Their big project was the DSV Limiting Factor, which is a legitimate deep sea research vessel, so unless they’re using another shed build submarine they’ll probably survive
But it might mean that more startup brained billionaires get lulled into a false sense of security and build more OceanGate style tubs
I’ve been saying we should all act like this is the coolest thing ever because musk will absolutely try to copy it but lead the design himself leading to an actual ocean gate 2.0.
log onto Twitter
@ elon musk “bet you couldn’t make a sub that could reach the OceanGate wreck”
Log off
Wait
I did hear someone say that these subs tend to cost 2x what the one these nerds are going down in. So here’s hoping that 2x savings owns them.
Yea the last one failed because they bought used parts that were literally advertised as being non viable for deep water trips.
If a billionaire decided to not try to save a couple grand by using second hand parts and a madcatz controller this should be trivial for them. It’s why the last one was so funny. He had all the money in the world so he thought that made him smarter than nature.
“why has nobody thought to build a submarine like an airplane hull? truly, I am a world-historic genius”
At least we can take solace in the fact that they’re going to be miserable for several days a cold, cramped submarine instead of relaxing and enjoying themselves in the luxury of their private island or whatever
The orcas have a chance to do the funniest thing possible.
By Gawd, that’s White Gladis’s music!
Hold on, actually let’s hope for this to succeed so they relax and we get a bigger catch next time
Someone who’s good with art, help me pitch rich people on a massive underwater city that’s only for rich people and nothing bad will ever happen to rich people there
Build it as the Ayn Rand dream for good measure
I really gotta play that game eventually, tho they say it’s not cool enough cuz it’s a libertarian critique of libertarianism
It deconstructs Ayn Rand by playing it straight. Don’t expect Disco Elysium analysis, but it does have good writing. Excellent twist for its time, and I won’t spoil it just in case.
The twist is an m. night shamelan (close enough) “free will is an illusion” rug pull but I really don’t think it takes away from the criticism of how they got to that point.
Good plan, good plan
I will completely unironically become a Poseidon worshiper if he grants us this miracle
Lol, let’s hope its in another ship that has a name that’s an affront to comrade Poseidon, or another ocean deity.
If they were smart, they’d name it The Nobody
I guess being stuck roaming for years on end is better than dead. With a name like Nemo though maybe there’s some sea monster sized sea turtles we haven’t discovered yet.
Sea turtles eat squid, and since there are giant squid surely there must be giant turtles to eat them.
Welcome to the true faith. Hallowed are his rippling abs.
Welcome to the Crossroads. Death to Chronos.
no more half measures walter
No more half pressures water
This time it’s a garbage can with some duct tape and a playstation 1 controller
Mad Katz controller
off brand ps1 controller
I was talking to a coworker about this and had to defend my glee by proving that this billionaire is a demon. Found an old reddit thread where someone in Dayton, OH was being sued by his real estate investment firm, Connor Group, for one million (1,000,000) dollars for publicly complaining about them not sending maintenance crews to fix problems with his apartment.
Found a few others with people warning others not to move into his apartment complexes for the same reason.
Sad to hear that Triton is a real submarine company and he won’t die due to a Logitech controller shorting out or whatever.
SpaceX is a real company, and their rockets explode all the time… Inshallah on this sub
From your lips comrade
inshallah someone on the crew understands humanity’s predicament and will do what needs to be done
oh and also: Davy Jones’ Lockerbie
Can’t wait for the pilot to forget his wrist straps and accidentally throw his Wiimote steering wheel into the viewport.
How many billionaires are gonna fit inside this one?
Praying that everyone on that sub has an extremely ΔP time in the North Atlantic
Every year we should let the billionaires compete to see who gets to go die trying to see a boat
Bring Les with you.
I would love for billionaires to turn this into a dick measuring contest. Just lining up to die one after the other because, “those guys were chumps let me show your how much billionairer I am”.
