But thats kind of my point at large. Woke just seems to be ‘thing that annoys me’. It’s a word with almost no meaning.
I am talking about churches with female pastors and LGBTQXYZ flags on their entrance. Everyone understood what I meant except for phonics (to everyone's surprise, I am sure). @phonics, if you don't like the term I used, try using context to understand what I mean. I just found it amusing that in a Pride event, most booths were from churches.
It should probably worry me how few opinions I have, based on reading here.
I'm a twit
It's best not to have any.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-65942430
Are you absolutely sure?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65953872It is not clear how many people, if any, were on board at the time it went missing.
The bar for operating submersibles is significantly lower than I expected it to be, perhaps that's what they were looking for.
What an completely bizarre thing to want to spend $250,000 on. If they offered to pay me a hundred times that and I absolutely would not get in that fucking thing and go two and a half miles under the sea. Fuck that. I can't wrap my head it.
On the flip side, if I had enough money that a quarter of a mil didn’t touch the sides I’d have done it long ago.
Good job the Mellin thing didn't come in for us in retrospect then Yev, could have been you!
"A British man is missing and presumed seething."
Submarines do not sound like a fun place, they are somewhere you are recovered from rather than rescued. Although if something bad happens the worse the better, I'd rather be flattened instantly than trapped in the back end of the Kursk getting melted/set on fire for days on end.
The only submarines worth being in are in museums.
It seems once you are rich enough to do anything your only options to alleviate boredom when the novelty wears off are needlessly risk your life or become a sex criminal.
This is why golf is such a social good, keeps all those men out of the paedo farms.
Away from the full titanic experience package (watery grave in the icy depth of the Atlantic included) what the actual fuck is this all about?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-65951188
Jesus christ
The game controller thing has to be a wind up, surely?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/...qh_dp_hza?th=1
£42.60 and you too can consign billionaires to a murky death
Yeah, the more that comes out about this 'submersible' the more you think what the fuck?
I get that these things are, by their nature, going to be a bit Heath Robinson, but hearing how it got a bit stuck under the Titanic's propeller when an ABC reporter went on it in 2000 makes you think anyone would have to be insane to get in it. Imagine just being stuck down there, waiting to die. Do they have a stash of cyanide?
Third party controllers should never be trusted.
I wonder if the US military still runs that server bank of Playstation 3's.
Having seen the circumstances in which these trips were run I withdraw handing over my fictional cash to partake.
Charging $250k for that sticky back plastic experience is an absolute scandal.
For the risk involved, I'd say that's a fair price. How much are Virgin charging for the edge of space flights?
Most third party controllers have a turbo button so surely that's some help
Is it possible they got lost due to stick drift?
It looks tiny. Is the bit shown in the video the only compartment? How on earth are five people willingly cramming themselves into that?
Bodging console controllers to use in other applications is pretty common I think.
They're used a lot in in various militaries because they're so intuitive, there was certainly a point where US drones were being controlled in some fashion with old 360 pads.
Fucking hell. Who in their right mind would get into that thing?
Team Fuck That being proven objectively right here.
And space is about the same cost, no? If so it’s clearly better value as it simply must cost more to be propelled into space than sink to the bottom of the ocean in something made from the contents of an undergrad’s dorm room.
Seeing the Earth from space would also shit all over a rusty boat.
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I'm surprised there's even enough oxygen in that thing to take people down and back up.
So how would one actually die in that thing? Run out of oxygen and know it’s going to happen for a few minutes?
Wonder if it's plausible that the electrics/ballast fail but the oxygen supply holds up for a few days. Probably the worst conceivable way to go.
If that did happen and they somehow survive we’ll now have 5 multi-millionaires with messiah complexes. 4 out of 5 become celebs. Guaranteed.
I'm sure Elon Musk is gathering a Thai kids football team to perform the rescue.
What laws, if any, apply 3 miles under the sea in the middle of the Atlantic? What I'm getting at here is 5 days oxygen for 5 people (and presumably food/water) would last 1 person a fair while longer.
Physics.
How do you know?
It's conceivable that it could be disabled above it's crush depth and they'll take a few days to die but I wouldn't bet on it.
That's the first I've ever heard the term 'crush depth'.
Nasty business.
Given it was going to see the Titanic it must be rated (or at least able) to go all the way to the bottom so I suppose that gives them a bit more of a chance but that relies on them staying in the same area. Imagine losing power or drive and then getting swept off into the deeps until it goes pop, that would be bad but probably better than three days gradually succumbing to billionaires farts.