Tourist submersible missing on visit to Titanic

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Anonymous wrote:I'll bet he had major financial problems that will be revealed in the coming months, hence the need to get those paying passengers down there asap.

This is what I think too. I read somewhere he wanted energy or defense sector to buy his idea: going to the Titanic was supposed to be proof of concept. When he went and they didn't bite, I wonder if he needed money to either pay bills or keep looking for a customer.

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Anonymous wrote:Was Rush an engineer? As an engineer myself I cannot understand what he was thinking or why the laws of physics and principles of engineering don’t apply to him

He was an aerospace engineer.

He was a failed astronaut.

He joined a fellow failed astronaut to start the company. His friend was the CEO for a few years until they part ways.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no idea why people feel compelled to explore life at the extremes like deep sea and space when we have an absolute miracle in front of us right here in the middle of the curve where humans are uniquely adapted to live.

That’s certainly one way to think of it, but I’m sure you enjoy air travel, driving a car, led lights, relatively inexpensive gasoline etc - all things that were made possible by crazed people pushing the limits and not taking no for an answer. I’m pretty risk averse, but I think that, along with intelligence, curiosity, opposable thumbs, and reliance on social communities, a certain amount of risk taking enabled humans to live in that “middle of the curve” that most of us enjoy.

And honestly, we are not actually “uniquely adapted” to live there. Take away our technology, our clothes, our electricity, our plumbing, our transportation and most of us would probably starve or die of exposure. We took risks, invented power grids, furnaces, air conditioning, Apple Watches, and here we are.

I think you mean here (?) and yes we are. We are uniquely adapted to live on Earth. Sure, not in extreme temperature regions and such, but we've been able to innovate and survive for ages because we're uniquely adapted (and belong) here.

Do you live in North America? Depending on the current theories, the reason people are here is because their ancestors took an enormous risk by either walking across a land bridge into the great unknown to escape the encroaching ice, or getting in a rickety boat across a vast ocean with no guarantee of ever seeing land again. For much of human history, taking enormous risks is part of living. Millions of women walk miles to get clean water, even today. The drive that made Polynesians traverse the ocean in canoes is the same drive that made the first cosmonauts climb into a rocket and made Jonas Salk try out his polio vaccine on his own son. We have vaccines and water filtration and satellites from risk taking that help us live comfortably, but can you imagine life without those? Wouldn’t be so comfortable.

I do live in North America and no--I can't really imagine life with all the amenities we have today but if the amenities were to suddenly vanish most of us would be fine. We'd just have to find other ways to keep surviving.

That said, there's no doubt that risks have afforded us the ability to live more comfortable lives. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "uniquely adapted" but what it means to me is that humans are able to live on this planet. We can breathe and exist here. Of course we need to find the right climate and adapt accordingly. And of course we need to find food and water. But we have the ability to live and thrive here. It's because of this unique adaptation that the great risk takers were able to focus on so many different things.
We are not uniquely adapted to living in space or living in water. We aren't "space creatures" or fish.

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Anonymous wrote:Was Rush an engineer? As an engineer myself I cannot understand what he was thinking or why the laws of physics and principles of engineering don’t apply to him

He was an aerospace engineer.

He was a failed astronaut.

He joined a fellow failed astronaut to start the company. His friend was the CEO for a few years until they part ways.

So he failed in space and failed in underwater?

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This is why the notion that we are going to live in the ocean or terraform Mars is so absurd. Earth and land is our only option.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else think it’s a bit distasteful, these people coming out of the woodwork with the ‘it could have been me’ stories?

No, I think they are reeling (the father and son who gave up their seats, after safety concerns!!) Plus the media is desperate fir new angles on the story.

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If I were a desperate CEO, I’d take my customers slowly to 1000m and fool them thinking it’s the 4000m depth. We will return to surface with no harm.

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Anonymous wrote:If I were a desperate CEO, I’d take my customers slowly to 1000m and fool them thinking it’s the 4000m depth. We will return to surface with no harm.

They expected to see Titanic out the porthole though.

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Anonymous wrote:If I were a desperate CEO, I’d take my customers slowly to 1000m and fool them thinking it’s the 4000m depth. We will return to surface with no harm.

They expected to see Titanic out the porthole though.

Put an ipad there in disguise and call it a day.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems this story has captured international interest.

The five lost at sea will be memorialized at two Titanic museums in the U.S.
Their names will be etched in a memorial wall at both locations.

Oh, FFS.

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Anonymous wrote:If I were a desperate CEO, I’d take my customers slowly to 1000m and fool them thinking it’s the 4000m depth. We will return to surface with no harm.

They expected to see Titanic out the porthole though.

Put an ipad there in disguise and call it a day.

Talk about going to great lengths..

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Anonymous wrote:Was Rush an engineer? As an engineer myself I cannot understand what he was thinking or why the laws of physics and principles of engineering don’t apply to him

He was an aerospace engineer.

He was a failed astronaut.

He joined a fellow failed astronaut to start the company. His friend was the CEO for a few years until they part ways.

So he failed in space and failed in underwater?

The worst part is that he carried four other people on his final failure.

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The deep blue sea once told me to go back to the surface and keep my feet on land. I listened. Safety is a big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems this story has captured international interest.

The five lost at sea will be memorialized at two Titanic museums in the U.S.
Their names will be etched in a memorial wall at both locations.

Oh, FFS.

It is so profoundly inappropriate.

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Anonymous wrote:Was Rush an engineer? As an engineer myself I cannot understand what he was thinking or why the laws of physics and principles of engineering don’t apply to him

He was an aerospace engineer.

The ones I have known already know everything.

+1. I hate to disparage a dead person, but these guys were all so full of themselves. You know the type.
There is a video on Insta of Hamish Harding and the rest of the tourists on his Blue Origins flight last year saying “Natural Selectioooon” instead of “cheese” when posing for a photo in space. As in, they thought they were the smartest sh&t there is, the optimal results in the natural selection process. But then karma thought otherwise.