Posted on 06/22/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by lowbridge
Left-wing “fact-checking” site Snopes tried to place some of the blame for the loss of the ill-fated Titan submersible on Elon Musk, but a little thing called “facts” got in the way of its partisan hackery.
The site initially tried to tar Elon Musk’s Starlink Internet services with vague links to the company that launched the submersible that went missing Sunday in the Atlantic Ocean somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland. Authorities announced Thursday that they had found debris from the submersible and that the occupants are believed deceased.
In its June 20 “fact-check” piece, entitled “Was the Missing Titanic Submersible Using Satellites from Elon Musk’s Company?” Snopes claimed that the submersible that went missing “relied” on Starlink for communications.
“OceanGate, the company behind the submersible that went missing in June 2023 on a Titanic wreckage exploration, relied on Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites to provide communications during the expedition,” the “claim” segment read.
The “rating” Snopes gave to the so-called fact-check was “True.”
You can see that original post on the internet site Wayback Machine, which archives past website postings.
But hours later, the site made an about-face and gave the claim an “unproven” rating after Twitter’s community notes took Snopes to school with actual scientific facts.
Then, after more alterations to its post, the “fact-check” suddenly switched to a “false” rating.
Now, the Snopes page reads as a “false” rating and features four updates telling readers that the story was “amended” to “add details.”
The “false” rating suddenly showed up after Snopes got a community note on its own tweet about its false “fact-check.”
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Do liberals ever stop lying?
(rimshot)
Thanks, I’ll be here all week!
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Yeah but he got rid of the big wife and got one that occupies less space
He should sue them
It is amazing how lying leftist a-holes mange to dominate 90% of public facing entities. Even so called fact checkers who MSM refer to are some of the worst of the propagandists.
Nor is starlink even capable of functioning 12500 under water. Or even 12.5 feet underwater
Isn’t Elon one of those 50(ish) old guys the CEO hated?
I’m blaming Reagan. I mean, the original Titanic wreckage was found in 1985, on his watch. If it hadn’t been discovered, this billionaire guy wouldn’t have founded his company and led people to their deaths.
Yup. Carbon fiber is an extremely strong material. Until it isn’t. From strong to failure happens in the blink of an eye.
He was in the Navy during WW1. And thanks to him, not a single German U-Boat got past Waukegan.
“it was made out of carbon fiber composite”
That’s what I don’t get. Wouldn’t carbon fiber composite be better suited for keeping something CONTAINED under pressure so that the carbon fiber would be under tension? Not the other way around?
Who reads Snopes anymore?
Carbon Fiber is a great composite material, but it’s strength is limited. I would trust it to make a bicycle, but I would not trust it to build a rocket ship out of. It’s great for car frames, but not so hot for tanks.
Within its range, it’s great material. If he was still going to build his sub out of carbon fiber, he would have been better off to divide its structural structure by 5 and figure out how deep he can take it at that point, instead of assuming he would be safe at 2.5 times the strength of the expected atmospheres.
He could have then plowed his profits into creating a real sub that can withstand the pressure of 500 atmospheres by a factor of 5 or 10.
Carbon Fiber is a great composite material, but it’s strength is limited. I would trust it to make a bicycle, but I would not trust it to build a rocket ship out of. It’s great for car frames, but not so hot for tanks.
Within its range, it’s great material. If he was still going to build his sub out of carbon fiber, he would have been better off to divide its structural strength by 5 and figure out how deep he can take it at that point, instead of assuming he would be safe at 2.5 times the strength of the expected atmospheres.
He could have then plowed his profits into creating a real sub that can withstand the pressure of 500 atmospheres by a factor of 5 or 10.
A complete lack of honesty makes a Snopes’ ruling impossible to believe. On any subject.
I love that guy.
Man, I wish there were more of these guys.
I didn’t know anyone relied on snopes after it faked stories to support John z Kerry’s stolen valor
Things don’t talk under the sea at the depth without a cable. To even suggest this was a satellite link is perhaps the dumbest thing ever.
I can’t vouch for the veracity of it but I heard somewhere that a signal from Starlink could only penetrate 8 cms of water. ie 3.1 inches.
Sounds about right to me.
“Wasn’t Snopes started by a couple of old liberal hacks that had nothing better to do?”
yep, and they named the site after their cat ... AND they got into a nasty public divorce fight after their website achieved a spot of fame ...
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