I definitely think he should. Maybe he can recruit a few more billionaires to prove that it was just a freak accident.
I would like to recommend my e-book, “How to build a totally safe paper-mache deepsea submersible” available on Amazon for free.
A coupon for free discarded Boeing carbon components offered with every copy.
Why for free? Tout yourself as the guru of paper submarines and sell that 130 page book for $99 on your personal site. Make some money off them first.
A classic.
I agree but I have a little paperwork for him to sign first, and we’ll need someone other than me to witness it. Some silly rule about beneficiaries.
Paper mache! Ooh wee sign me up. /s
Larry Connor is a real estate investor in Dayton, Ohio
Oh, a landlord. Does he have any friends in the business he can take with him?
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.
All right, get into the idiot squisher.
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.
Good. Can we get more billionaire onto this trend of offing themselves?
The Titanic is hungry. It must be fed. The spice must flow
I support this.
Tf? This is the new Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.
then shalt thou count to three…
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three!
Right. One, Two, Five
the ocean can be “kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way.”
yeah, like if you make a series of staged* test dives to determine the vessel’s endurance and viability before filling it with a group of rich dummies and going straight to the bottom in one go.
*“staged” as in test diving in successive stages of increasing depth, not “staged” as in “faked”
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.
Okay, the article is way more level headed than the headline.
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Right? I know we don’t like reading the articles around here, but this is about a $20 million submersible being commissioned from a company that has successfully gone down to Challenger Deep before.
It’s still billionaire wankery, but it’s much more reasonable in its budget.
Fine, just hold tight to this here anchor and jump. You’ll be on site in no time.
