Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Bruh. There's a difference between "This man killed and raped an 8 year old child who he randomly grabbed off the side of the road. Let's shoot him" and "An experimental, high risk vehicle failed - killing all occupants including its creator".

Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?

I mean, if you're asking an average farmer, they probably would. That aside, the Wright brothers didn't have the benefit of decades (centuries?) of research by others on the subject, material studies and practical application with abundant experience and expertise to fall back on, so it's an unfair comparison. In fact, these morons went against proven, conventional wisdom. Dumbass tried to reinvent the wheel thinking he was smarter than everyone else, failed to heed the warnings and paid the ultimate price for his hubris.

He ain't no Wright brothers, he's a tide-pod-eating manchild, a dead one at that.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Yup. Carbon fiber hull that had been subjected to multiple compression cycles, and apparently carbon fiber can delaminate at extremely low temperatures (like you find two and a half fucking miles under the North Atlantic) and a titanium end cap fucking glued onto it and the glue itself can lose integrity under extremes of cold and pressure.
Plus the portholes were only rated down to 1300 meters and Titanic is almost 4000.
Its a miracle it lasted as long as it did, but everytime its been subjected to the stressers it underwent going to that depth and back up, its weakened to integrity a little bit more.
The guy who blew the whistle about it being a deathtrap was fired by the asshole CEO.
The basic design was flawed from the start, and the lack of safety precautions and failsafes/fallbacks only compounded it.
And the same asshole CEO hired a bunch of diversity hires to run/operate it.
Only thing that would have made it more perfect is if the thing was sponsored by Bud Light and painted like a Budweiser can.

And the engineers only had enough data to calculate the Carbon Fiber Hull's rating down to 3000 meters. That's all it was rated for. The paperwork about that is in the lawsuit.

 

[Fornicario]

I won't shed a single tear. The only one I feel remotely sorry for is Suleman. Kid trusted his dad to take him on a once in a lifetime trip. I guess Daddy delivered tho

They certainly talked about it for the rest of their lives.

 

[Meat Target]

Matt Walsh sneeding is just a bonus. The only thing that could make this more entertaining is if leftoids get pissed at Walsh despite being unable to break decorum by loling at the sub itself.

He has no trouble being a dick to basically everyone else, but the poor retarded billionairinos are off-limits?

 

[Hokuriku]

If nothing else, I hope the victims died quickly when the sub imploded. Hubris is fun and all, but I'm afraid of drowning myself... I wouldn't wish it even on these idiots.

If it imploded they'd have been vaporized instantaneously. They probably wouldn't have even realized there was a leak.

 

[CaptainRockall]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye3vmNScpVU&ab_channel=BenSharmak

It's time, frens, it's time....

 

[sodaboard]

listed shares of Logitech International SA, a Swiss maker of computer peripherals and software, fell about 3.6% on Wednesday, amid reports that one of the company’s gamepads was being used to steer the submersible that went missing while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic.

proof that the cattle controlling the stock market don't understand a fucking thing about the companies they invest in, just "news article that beifly mentions company in positive/negative light no matter how relevant it is = bullish/bearish"
billionaires are cattle

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

What I don't understand is why the US Navy hasn't stepped forward to say if they picked any events up on their hydrophone arrays.
Those arrays picked up Scorpion's implosion all the way over at the Azores in 1968. Detecting something by the Titanic wreck should be a piece of piss.

Maybe they did but aren't saying anything.

There was a potential system using handheld spheres that would implode at a specific depth and create a wave that could travel long distances to the microphone arrays through this special layer in the ocean. The microphones are apparently that sensitive and that layer of the ocean propagates noise very well.
Use of Imploding Spheres: an Alternative to Explosives as Acoustic Sources at Mid-Latitude SOFAR Channel Depths

 

[AssignedEva]

According to the press conference, likely an implosion in the water column with the wreckage coming to rest less than 200 metres from the Titanic's bow. So they never saw the Titanic, but their remains landed by it. There's like a cruel double irony there.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I wonder if oceansgate would be charged with anything? All the families are definitely gonna sue.

 

[D_Tractor]

Celine Dion trends as sick trolls joke about 'My heart will go on' amid frantic search for Titanic sub​

https://meaww.com/celine-dion-trends-as-sick-trolls-joke-about-my-heart-will-go-on-amid-frantic-search-for-titanic-sub

https://archive.is/sixBe

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Might be a bit conspiratorial but at this stage, there's so many stupid fuckups in this whole thing that it makes me wonder whether this is essentially a coverup to make the guy and a few paying customers "disappear" and setup life elsewhere for some reason.

I mean a death in such a remote place would be incredibly difficult to prove, and the types of clients he attracts definitely wouldn't mind chucking tens of millions at the guy to make it happen. A half-dozen billionaires can effectively erase their public presence and do whatever the hell they want with that newfound anonymity. Maybe getting away from people, or maybe it's just easier to be powerful as fuck when nobody knows you exist.

Nothing really supports this theory right now as all efforts are going towards search and rescue ops. But I'm wondering if in time it will come out that some of the passengers had suspicious withdrawals before their trip.

I dunno, the fuckups seem so crazy it's hard to believe they genuinely occurred. But there are plenty of fucking idiots in the world. Plus, if the goal was to get a bunch of people off the radar then this being such a big thing in the media is the last thing they'd want, as it brings in nosy people.

There's no such thing as a secret billionaire, if a billionaire tried something like that they would no longer have access to their money.

 

[AnOminous]

Retarded "I love science" normalfags always repeat the "startships would be like submarines IN SPACE!" like brainless idiots

They're alike in about one major respect. The slightest fuckup will kill you, whether instantly or excruciatingly slowly.

Only thing that would have made it more perfect is if the thing was sponsored by Bud Light and painted like a Budweiser can.

And had a repulsive picture of that gurning troon on it.

Honestly? Yes. "Look at these retards thinking they can glue some muslin sheets onto some spruce wood and thinkin' they could fly, they even tried to control it with a logitech 12hp engine!"

That dead fucking mongoloid was not the goddamn Wright Brothers. It's already known how to do this shit and this dumbass went and deliberately did it in the most fucked-up ass-backwards way it was possible to do. It's amazing this piece of shit didn't implode before it did.

I hope relying on shitty Bluetooth devices that randomly disconnect even under normal conditions made them crash into some shit. Fucking idiots.

 

[Evil Peter Griffin]

Let us mourn their passing in the tradition started by Hamish Harding the stepson of one of the billionaires. Listening to Blink 182 and jacking off to Onlyfans thots.

 

[AnOminous]

Celine Dion trends as sick trolls joke about 'My heart will go on' amid frantic search for Titanic sub​

https://meaww.com/celine-dion-trends-as-sick-trolls-joke-about-my-heart-will-go-on-amid-frantic-search-for-titanic-sub

https://archive.is/sixBe

"Sick trolls" lmao.

 

[LaxerBRO]

Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?

Your question is illogical as it's predicated on our knowledge of the accomplishments of the Wright Brothers whereas if they had died history would not have recorded their names.

Countless people have died before achieving powered flight and nearly all people would not be able to name a single one.

But answering your question, if I was alive then and a two eccentric people say they can defy gravity with powered heavier than air flight only to die, yes I would laugh at those fools.

 

[Near]

The worst part here is that this will likely kill the Logitech F series controllers. I still have the F310 and it's tough as nails. There's a reason it's been on the market for 13+ years now.


Next time sink some retarded billionaires with Microsoft Kinect, or a Madcatz controller, retard.

 

[Bunny Tracks]

Would you have laughed at the Wright brothers if their plane crashed on its maiden voyage?

Ngl, comparing this arrogant, greedy grave-gawker to the people who actually changed the world as we know it is one of the batshit insane takes I've ever seen.

 

[AnOminous]

But answering your question, if I was alive then and a two eccentric people say they can defy gravity with powered heavier than air flight only to die, yes I would laugh at those fools.

I might laugh at the situation but not necessarily the dudes themselves. They were risking only their own lives and for the benefit of humanity (and probably because there was some money to be made as well but whatever).

It's not like they built some fucked up contraption that completely defied reality to sell tickets to rich retards to go gawk at a mass grave that is there because a previous idiot thought he could do no wrong, then hilariously dying there in one of the few peak moments of actual irony this year has seen.

 

[Otterly]

What happens to laminate carbon fibre when it fails under compression? Crumple to flatness or shatter like safety glass or unwind?
Has the banging stopped or is the noise they heard still going?

Sheeeeit, are there pictures of that?

I don’t have any. I got a vivid description from someone who was involved with the op over a pint once.

like why is this piece of shit built out of a material absolutely nobody else uses for submarines?

Because nobody has ever told this man ‘no.’ He’s a billionaire and he thinks he’s a genius. His ideas are never tested or rejected or mocked, he never has to face his own failure and learn from it.
He fired anyone who said no to him and surrounds himself with young sycophants. When we were in that glorious age of engineering and test piloting stuff to take us to space there were no billionaire playboys involved, only genius engineers and techs and men of steel willing to fly the damn things. The culture of unwillingness to say no or offend coupled with complete lack of knowledge and grit is a disaster for any kind of rigourous exploration.
Ranulph Fiennes didn’t want to bother anyone with his frostbitten fingers so he took the secateurs to them himself in the shed at home. Shackleton went through hell and didn’t lose a single man. I’m sure he listened to the chippy who built the boat that got them from elephant island to South Georgia rather than insisting it should be built from twigs and craft materials from wickes. Our current explorers seem to work on tech and hubris