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.
We won't need guillotines if we can just make it trendy for billionaires to do dumb shit like this. 👍
Like ~~moths~~ billionaires to ~~a flame~~ the wreck of the Titanic.
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?
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.
Please take the muskrat with you.
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!
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.
If Elon Musk were a real man and billionaire, he would make his own carbon fiber sub to dive to the titanic.
No need, didn't you hear the cybertruck is rated to 6000 psi of external pressure.
Auto correct can't figure out cybertruck
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.
Please please please please...
Who needs guillotines when we can just crush all the billionaires beneath the weight of mile of ocean?
An innocent kid was on board the Titan, in case everyone has forgotten. He didn't want to go. Limit your laughter a bit.
Ok, I'll pause for a second, then continue laughing.
Apparently he was a huge douche canoe too.
Oh, well, that's alright then.
Fine, just hold tight to this here anchor and jump. You'll be on site in no time.
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
Please proceed
The strangest thing about this is a billionaire thinks Ohio is a good place to live.
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.
Even a trillionaire couldn't force Ohio to be worth living in.
Damn, not Wexner
Proceed, governor
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