Do it! Take all the other billionaires with you! Any of the ones that don’t want to go down to the Titanic can be sent off to Mars with Elon.
I mean, he’ll probably be okay. Deep sea submersible technology is pretty nailed down at this point.
What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else and could make a deep sea submersible with non-standard components (carbon fiber that had passed it’s expiration date, off-the-shelf electronics, oh and a window not rated for the depths it was going). And to be fair the out of the 15 attempted dives down to the Titanic only one of them catastrophically failed. A 6.6% failure rate isn’t too bad… for some applications.
What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else
So a billionaire? Like this guy?
That is a Project Veritas level edit to generate a completely out of context quote.
I don’t know that it’s out of context to say that this guy who thinks he knows everything is doing the same thing that the last guy who thought he knew everything tried to do.
Honestly if it was just a drone it would have been pretty respectable. Using otherwise less desirable tech and materials to achieve a goal equivalent to high tech shit is pretty impressive. But they just gad to put people in it.
Every new detail I learn about the engineering of the Titan submersible takes me to a yet more profound depth of claustrophobia I did not know was possible.
I’m amazed that the local military is still mulling over the investigation to recommend criminal charges. Seems open and shut to me. Criminal negligence at least, multiple homicide well within reason. People were even warning him not to put people in an untested carbon fiber submarine before it’s journey resulted in failure.
What engineering? Every trained engineer he hired said “this is a terrible idea” and he fired them thinking he was smarter.
He had an 18 and 19 year old kids as engineers on his staff that were just first year students.
But what makes you think this particular billionaire doesn’t also suffer from delusions of grandeur and thinks he too can make a submarine with parts bought at home Depot?
Yeah, I came here to make pretty much the same comment. Submarines aren’t exactly the most difficult things in the world to buy or build, the OceanGate guy was just a catastrophic moron with a heart of rot.
Good. Can we get more billionaire onto this trend of offing themselves?
Godspeed.
All right, get into the idiot squisher.
There was a meme of a graph of Titanic deaths over time with a huge spike on it’s maiden voyage then a little bump a few years ago.
Yes that one, it might need an update sooner than we think. :D
Fuck helping humanity. They should have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps. This guy wants to be mentioned in the paper.
Damn, not Wexner
Hey. me too! I started tests using rocks. I figure, if a rock attached with a string can reach the bottom, then I should be able to go inside a larger rock and reach the bottom too!
With a string around the rock, ofcourse. I’m not crazy!
An innocent kid was on board the Titan, in case everyone has forgotten. He didn’t want to go. Limit your laughter a bit.
No one is laughing. When he finishes carving the new sub it will be a thing of beauty.
Ok, I’ll pause for a second, then continue laughing.
Apparently he was a huge douche canoe too.
Oh, well, that’s alright then.
Let him.
Please please please please…
Fine, just hold tight to this here anchor and jump. You’ll be on site in no time.
This guy seems to be taking safety slightly more seriously with his sub plans than the last guy. Which is unfortunate for people looking forward to more billionaires transforming themselves into paste.
