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[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 181 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

A coupon for free discarded Boeing carbon components offered with every copy.

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Breve@pawb.social 88 points 3 months ago

We won't need guillotines if we can just make it trendy for billionaires to do dumb shit like this. 👍

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

Like ~~moths~~ billionaires to ~~a flame~~ the wreck of the Titanic.

[-] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago

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?

[-] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

What happened with the Titan is the Ocean Gate guy thought he was smarter than everyone else

So a billionaire? Like this guy?

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[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 42 points 3 months ago

Please take the muskrat with you.

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[-] Railing5132@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

All right, get into the idiot squisher.

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Good. Can we get more billionaire onto this trend of offing themselves?

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Titanic is hungry. It must be fed. The spice must flow

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

I support this.

[-] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Tf? This is the new Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

then shalt thou count to three...

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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"

[-] arc@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

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.

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[-] sepi@piefed.social 14 points 3 months ago

If Elon Musk were a real man and billionaire, he would make his own carbon fiber sub to dive to the titanic.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

No need, didn't you hear the cybertruck is rated to 6000 psi of external pressure.

Auto correct can't figure out cybertruck

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Okay, the article is way more level headed than the headline.

Spelling

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Please please please please...

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 11 points 3 months ago

An innocent kid was on board the Titan, in case everyone has forgotten. He didn't want to go. Limit your laughter a bit.

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Ok, I'll pause for a second, then continue laughing.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Apparently he was a huge douche canoe too.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

Oh, well, that's alright then.

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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Who needs guillotines when we can just crush all the billionaires beneath the weight of mile of ocean?

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Fine, just hold tight to this here anchor and jump. You'll be on site in no time.

[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago
[-] SeattleRain@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Yes that one, it might need an update sooner than we think. :D

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Please proceed

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Damn, not Wexner

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago
[-] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

The strangest thing about this is a billionaire thinks Ohio is a good place to live.

[-] thejoker954@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

For a billionaire, anywhere can be a good place to live. You have money to force the shit around you to be what you want.

[-] Agrivar@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Even a trillionaire couldn't force Ohio to be worth living in.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Proceed, governor

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