Posted on 06/21/2023 1:21:57 AM PDT by 4Runner
Darwin, Murphy and money - always a bad combination.
Darwin might be in play here, Murphey certainly is.
Yep the submersible was never certified and spend 250K to take a ride down to the Titanic.
Smart and high IQ are not related
Somewhere between 5000 and 6000 PSI, from what I’ve read.
Try not to break your arms patting each other on the back.
Pressure is around 6,000 psi, or so it has been reported.... Any structural failure would be instantly catastrophic.
Thanks - and no doubt
You are being pretty nasty with your comments. I don’t understand why you need to bring it out the way you did...
Also, one thing you didn’t mention, is the ratio/percentage of those situations, which would make a BIG difference.
“We want to go deeper than anyone else has ever gone. We want to
be as great as we can possibly be,” he said. “That’s why we accept
risk. If we did not accept risk, we would never have crossed open
oceans, we would never have learned to sail ships, we would never
have flown airplanes.”--Alfred Hagen
We wrote to a number of the best known automobile
manufacturers in an endeavor to secure a motor for the new
machine. Not receiving favorable answers from any of these
we proceeded to design a motor of our own. ~ Orville Wright.
Wasnt one of the Wrights killed in a plane crash?
Try again.
One of the Stanley brothers died in the crash of a Stanley Steamer. Got going too fast down a steep hill and brakes failed.
That sounds so poetic but there is a difference between accepting unavoidable risks and ignoring safeguards. There is a difference between weighing risk and blithe indifference to probable consequences. Foolhardy ≠ courageous.
It’s easy to paint pictures with words to cast oneself as the hero. This man was not a hero, he was gambling with his own & other people’s lives. He ignored basic safeguards, had no redundancy to deal with failure of any component. There is nothing to admire in someone who is so committed to being a trailblazer that he ignores risk to others so he can posture.
You appear to be fixated on one unnamed man, presumably Stockton Rush. There are four other souls aboard the missing sub, including premier French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, with 35 dives to the Titanic shipwreck under his belt.
Hamish Harding has dived to 36,000 ft in the Mariana Trench, circumnavigated the globe via North and South Poles, accompanied U.S. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin to the South Pole, and rode the Blue Origin into space.
You find it imperative to lambast a man today, while search and rescue continues in earnest.
Your anger and overwhelming need to assign blame is disturbing when nobody actually knows why the sub is missing. There is plenty of time to dissect and analyze cause and effect when the sub is recovered.
Very histrionic & over the top. It is my sorrow for all of the men that informs my comments as well as a reaction to your romanticism.
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