The people lost in the missing Titan submersible are dead-bolted in with at least 17 bolts and have no way out unless they're found

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[–]Maniak🥃😾[M] [score hidden] stickied comment (0 children)

Winner of the thread, /u/stickdog:

What happened to this sub?

[–]stickdog 11 insightful - 11 fun11 insightful - 10 fun12 insightful - 11 fun -  (5 children)

What happened to this sub?

[–]CrazyjanecreepyjeffReality Monger[S] 9 insightful - 8 fun9 insightful - 7 fun10 insightful - 8 fun -  (0 children)

It's really sunk to new lows

[–]Maniak🥃😾 8 insightful - 5 fun8 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

Damn, if only it was possible to sticky others' comments. This one deserves to be all the way at the top.

[–]NetweaselContinuing the struggle 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Damn, if only it was possible to sticky others' comments.

Here's the workaround: Make a comment thusly:

A comment from [Person], that is worth staying at the top

[comment]

And sticky it.

In this specific example, just say it and sticky it. I'm sure that u/stickdog would understand.
Especially with this discussion further down the thread....

[–]Maniak🥃😾 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Done and done.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 14 insightful - 6 fun14 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

Perhaps next year another crew of amateurs can build yet another carbon fiber sub and take tourists down to view the remains of the Titan lying next to the Titanic on the ocean floor.

If enough rich people keep paying $250K a pop to do this, eventually our problems will be solved.

[–]Super_Soviet_Gundam 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

There are around 3,000 billionaires. It'll take too long.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Now 2,999. We need a can-do attitude, not this defeatism.

[–]Maniak🥃😾 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

They should up the price to half a million each then, at least. The more stupidly expensive it is, the more billionaires will jump at the occasion to show just how much money they have.

They'll pay to have more subs built so they can all go fuck all the way d(r)own in bigger groups.

[–]hfxB0oyA 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Best case for them would be that the sub imploded from the pressure.

[–]Promyka5When in the course of human events... 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Since the trip costs a cool quarter-million dollars, it seems to me that as the oxygen begins to be depleted, the occupants could determine which of the millionaires and billionaires is the least rich, then kill that millionaire to conserve oxygen. Then as it further depletes, kill the next-poorest millionaire, then the next, while they await rescue. You know, just like they do to us poors in this sick society.

Is there a video camera on-board recording all of this?

[–]Maniak🥃😾 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sad for the 19 year old. Being only a beneficiary of the money but not actually owning it makes him the obvious first one to go. Well, unless he gets his father first I guess.

They could make multiple movies from this. Moneyhunger Games.

[–]kingsmegLiberté, égalité, fraternité 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The people inside the missing Titan submersible are currently -sealed- flattened inside a(n) -airtight vessel- pancake.

The people who built this thing appear to have improvised, without the necessary materials and engineering to do this safely. There's a reason no one else is diving crewed submersibles to this depth, because it is exceedingly dangerous even with the best-built vessel. Even the Soviets AFAIK abandoned their submarine that could dive to great depths, and even they weren't crazy enough to go this deep.

[–]CrazyjanecreepyjeffReality Monger[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

https://twitter.com/Pogue/status/1670834475901632527

David Pogue @Pogue You may remember that the @OceanGateExped sub to the #Titanic got lost for a few hours LAST summer, too, when I was aboard…Here’s the relevant part of that story. https://youtu.be/29co_Hksk6o

[–]CrazyjanecreepyjeffReality Monger[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The footage of inside the vessel looks nightmare inducing to me.

[–]CrazyjanecreepyjeffReality Monger[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Pogue said that he was hesitant about getting into the submersible in November because the equipment on board appeared to be "improvised" and "off the shelf."

"You steer this sub with an Xbox game controller, some of the ballast is abandoned construction pipes," Pogue told the BBC.

And there are billionaires and millionaires on board: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/who-is-on-missing-titanic-submarine-passengers-hamish-harding-shahzada-dawood

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Look... I believe in natural selection.

This is hard evidence in that.

[–]CaelianPost No Toasties 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

Billionaires and millionaires using their wealth to rig the Darwin Awards?

[–]InumaGaming Socialist 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They certainly wanted to put themselves high on that list.

God had to call them early.