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Posted on 06/21/2023 12:02:51 PM PDT by VAFreedom
In a 2019 interview, the Titan's maker lamented "obscenely safe" diving security regulations.
CEO Stockton Rush said he understood the regulations but regretted their effect on innovation.
Rush is understood to be on board the submersible that lost contact with the surface Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
On another thread someone pointed out that the mini-sub goes to great depths. So any beacon would require a huge (and heavy) battery to send out a signal strong enough to be detected. Hence, no beacon.
I don’t know how true that is. But it makes sense.
“It had no beacon. 🙄”
That it would be equipped with such a device would certainly seem to me to be a no brainer.
Nor does it confer it.................
“I heard the CEO was under a lot of pressure.”
I suspect he’s under a lot more pressure now.
He couldn’t find a beacon manufacturer that was headed up by a non-binary black environmentalist, so he took a pass.
Let’s get ready for the usual chattering suspects to use this situation to attack Elon Musk and his approach to new tech.
Either word applies.
Exactly. But somehow blonde females think it does both......................
Essentially it was a plastic vessel with carbon fiber reinforcing. Carbon fiber has excellent tensile strength, compressive strength, not so much.
I see no additional reinforcement at the ends where the bow and stern are attached, just the same thickness throughout.
There is a reason most deep diving submersibles look like one or more spheres strung together, a sphere is the strongest shape possible, as you get away from a spherical shape, you start to weaken the structure.
Carbon fiber is the darling of aerospace construction due to its light weight and high tensile strength, neither of which is paramount in undersea craft construction.
But, what do I know, I am 50< and a white guy.
Imagine being trapped in a small space with limited oxygen along with the people that are going to die because of you. Not a good day.
“Heck, they used a wireless controller. Did they bring fresh batteries?”
Unreal... just unreal.
Agreed, the world has gone “safety” mad, largely on things that have very minimal impact, more like safety theater. This guy seems to be taking it to far to the other extreme.
Nor does it imply intelligence. Definitely doesn't infer it, given that the wealth has no intelligence to infer with.
Wonder what the tab is going to be for all of this. I say send the bill the the estates of Rush and all of his passengers. I don’t want to have to foot the bill for their stupidity.
His attitude seems to have been (I believe he is now “past tense”) “F it ... we’re just gonna go with what looks cool!”.
I wonder whether there is a place that they can hook onto even if they do find it.
How about you Old White Guy?
The bottom line:
"The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society."
Wonder how many young people will be inspired by this death wish of his ???? Inexperienced people, safety shortcuts, fantasy thinking the rules of reality don’t apply to him.....
I’ve had wireless mice fail and it wasn’t because of batteries. I assume the transponder wears out?
I’ve heard there were 12 trips before this then I heard 3 trips, so I wouldn’t think the transponder wore out, but...
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