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That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the "move fast and break things" nonsense.
Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).
It's the teenager that makes it sad.
I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.
Their crack detector thing actually detected a problem on the previous trip.... Just nobody checked it....
What the fuck? That's mental. I'd never heard that little nugget before.
Pretty sure it's this one: https://youtu.be/FAAQVntpk00
Goes through the photos to get an idea where it failed (towards one end). Then looks at manufacturing photos (milling down carbon fiber in a pressure vessel is crazy!) then looks at strain guage graphs.
Yeah that's the one I just watched it through. Thanks for the link. Absolutely reckless behaviour from the owner after the previous crack event on dive 80 to go down again. Just so many bad choices.
Fascinating that they had the data to tell them it wasn't safe and just ploughed ahead without examining it.
OMG, that's just insane. It's not an overstatement to say that he had it coming.
Is this AI?
No this is Patrick
Nice.
Probably? Someone posted it shortly after the actual oceangate situation happened, and it went straight to my downloads folder, lol. No idea what the original source was.
Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy...when health and safety aren't a concern or have been addressed.
And to add on that R&D thing. It's supposed to be move fast and break things to learn what things are not working good enought so you can deliver a finished not-breaking-stuff-thing.
Break things not humans
The photo of the shitty Logitech controller will never not make me laugh... Anyone who has ever handled a controller before knows those things are absolute garbage lol
And he did break things
Please please remember before you callously laugh at a billionaire dying that reportedly the carbon fiber hull was heard making cracking noises while underway at depth in prior dives.
Imagine being such an entitled rich fuck that while you are thousands of feet down in the open atlantic ocean you hear the hull of your submarine cracking and you are so unfamiliar with the concept of not being able to pay your way out of the consequences (and then be praised for "solving" the issue as if you did so yourself rather than your wealth) that you continue to make deep sea dives with that sub and tell yourself you are smarter than experts who are telling you your sub is going to kill you.
Don't let the magnitude of how hilariously fatally egocentric that is slip by without taking a moment to laugh in the face of dead thieves.
The kid didn't deserve to die though :(