Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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Astro Galactic Megalul said:
It made me think whether this whole system was ever even tested, I'd be amazed if it wasn't, but not exactly surprised.

More like Stockton Crush amirite?
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According to Karl Stanley he had a couple of shakedown runs that's it, the first one Rush went alone, the second one he dragged Stanley along and scared the shit out of him with sound of shit banging and popping inside the hull. Considering the manufacturers thought it was meant for a single dive, those gunshot noises Stanley heard were the hull starting to give out by the second fucking dive.
If Stanleys theory about Rush being in a financial mess is right, Rush sunk everything into the project (lol) and I guess he figured dying on it was better than the embarrassment of going back to his Bohemian Grove buddies and telling them he'd wasted his and their money on a fucking custom carbon fiber coffin.
 
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Oxyjen said:
The Segway guy Segwayed off a cliff.
Anyone know any other examples?

(Not saying he was a bloated tick, just a very rich guy who died at the hand of his own creation)
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Ackshually, it wasn't Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, who Segwayed off a cliff; it was the guy who bought the Segway company from him once Kamen got bored with having to run it.
 
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Aparently there's a leaked engineering report, but I haven't been able to find a copy. Supposedly it mentioned that the hull had delaminated so badly you could shine a light through it. That was from the 2018 whistleblower lawsuit. It was a sign they had voids. And voids = delamination under stress. Although it might have been talking about the earlier sub Cyclops.
 
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Angry New Ager said:
Ackshually, it wasn't Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, who Segwayed off a cliff; it was the guy who bought the Segway company from him once Kamen got bored with having to run it.
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I guess the guy who sold it forgot to explain how the brakes work and what the turning distance was...
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RodgerDodger said:
Aparently there's a leaked engineering report, but I haven't been able to find a copy. Supposedly it mentioned that the hull had delaminated so badly you could shine a light through it. That was from the 2018 whistleblower lawsuit. It was a sign they had voids. And voids = delamination under stress. Although it might have been talking about the earlier sub Cyclops.
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If you're going to quote me, spelling mistakes and all, could you use the reply button? It works fine on short posts and on ling ones you can select the text you want to quote
 
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Angry New Ager said:
Ackshually, it wasn't Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, who Segwayed off a cliff; it was the guy who bought the Segway company from him once Kamen got bored with having to run it.
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I remember seeing a couple campus cops rolling around on those retarded things around when that happened. Has anyone seen that bullshit anywhere lately?

Dumbest and most useless invention ever.
 
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AnOminous said:
I remember seeing a couple campus cops rolling around on those retarded things around when that happened. Has anyone seen that bullshit anywhere lately?

Dumbest and most useless invention ever.
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Honestly, from a purely technical perspective they're pretty ingenious. Keep in mind Dean Kamen had also invented a self-balancing wheelchair prior to that as probably the least of his accomplishments considering he also made the first drug infusion pumps and has patents on portable dialysis machines, so you can't exactly doubt his skills. Its just that operating them is a bitch and you look gayer than a bicyclist while riding it.

Honestly the most disappointing part of reading up on the guy is that his work into cheap, easy access to clean water has gone nowhere, probably because its impossible to grift off how bad things are in the Third World if five figures will give a village clean water for years.
 
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Snekposter said:
Its just that operating them is a bitch and you look gayer than a bicyclist while riding it.
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Inventors should put serious thought into "will I look like a complete faggot using this thing" as a concept. I mean your invention will suffer market failure if you look like you suck dicks every time you use it, especially if you have to use it in public.
 
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AnOminous said:
Inventors should put serious thought into "will I look like a complete faggot using this thing" as a concept. I mean your invention will suffer market failure if you look like you suck dicks every time you use it, especially if you have to use it in public.
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Yeah, the X-32's derpy-faced look was probably a not-insubstantial contribution towards why it wasn't picked over what would become the F-35.
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Although to be fair to the Chair Force "Our pilots will probably kill themselves in shame if they have to fly this" is a pretty good reason to cancel something given how difficult pilots are to train.
 
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Snekposter said:
Yeah, the X-32's derpy-faced look was probably a not-insubstantial contribution towards why it wasn't picked over what would become the F-35.
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Although to be fair to the Chair Force "Our pilots will probably kill themselves in shame if they have to fly this" is a pretty good reason to cancel something given how difficult pilots are to train.
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Shame they couldn't just put a shark paintjob on it or something. Did it at least function well?
 
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Betonhaus said:
Shame they couldn't just put a shark paintjob on it or something. Did it at least function well?
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Ward Carroll, an ex F-14 RIO did an interview and discussion with one of the X-32 evaluation pilots.
TLDR Yeah Congress was never gonna buy it because it was ugly as fuck and looked embarasing. Lockheed delivered exactly what their brains were expecting. And then Lockheed pulled their Hollywood moment, where for their first Vertical Takeoff and Hover moment. They rolled out with a completely clean airplane, no parts missing and a respectable tank of gas. On attempt one, where the test was to take off, hover for a minute and come down. They took off. Spun. Transitioned to Horizontal Flight and jumped supersonic. Circled the airfield a few times, came back into a hover, and set it down without spilling anybodies coffee. Basically telling the evaluators "we can start building this bitch tomorrow"

The X-32 came out with all of the doors and hatches stripped off. Maybe 5 gallons of gas in the tank. It took them several tries to get it off the ground. And it impressed nobody. They were years behind on everything. And the plane they were showing off in testing was already determined to be complete different than what they would actually be selling.
 
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