Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was a better educated Elon.

He wasn’t better educated. How did someone from Phillips Andover have such a low SAT score and still get into Princeton? His verbal SAT was arounc 610. He got plenty of C’s, D’s and F’s at Princeton. Someone on the documentary alluded to the fact it was surprising he had an engineering degree because he clearly didn’t understand so many things.

lol are you seriously asking this question? He was a legacy at Princeton. Do you honestly believe everyone who gets into Princeton is just super smart?

You wouldn’t get into Princeton nowadays with those scores unless your parents donated a whole wing of buildings. But it was possible in the 70s as just a regular rich legacy. Things have changed so much over time.

OK, but when he got in it was not on the basis of his stellar intellect.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was a better educated Elon.

He wasn’t better educated. How did someone from Phillips Andover have such a low SAT score and still get into Princeton? His verbal SAT was arounc 610. He got plenty of C’s, D’s and F’s at Princeton. Someone on the documentary alluded to the fact it was surprising he had an engineering degree because he clearly didn’t understand so many things.

lol are you seriously asking this question? He was a legacy at Princeton. Do you honestly believe everyone who gets into Princeton is just super smart?

You wouldn’t get into Princeton nowadays with those scores unless your parents donated a whole wing of buildings. But it was possible in the 70s as just a regular rich legacy. Things have changed so much over time.

your kid is at p?

I watched the Netflix one and the Discovery one. The involvement of Nargeolet is baffling. Maybe he thought he was minimizing harm with his involvement and had already lived a full life and so was incautious. But his imprimatur gave cover that it shouldn't have.

Contrast that with the filmmaker, Josh Gates, in the Discovery one who went on board in 2021 to get background for a planned Discovery Channel episode about an expedition. He ended up deciding that there were so many red flags in what he saw that there was no way it did not end in calamity and he simply could not take moral responsibility that his documentary might cause people to want to go on the Titan, so he called his bosses and told them to pull the plug on the film project.

These documentaries were well-made yet totally outrageous, which I think was the point. The whole story is outrageous. I'd like to hope I'd be one of the principled people featured who would state my honest opinion and walk away, if I ever ended up in a situation like that, but I'm sure all the people who ended up being complicit in this and rolling over for Stockton Rush's personality disorder or whatever psychopathology he had going on, thought they would, too. And didn't.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was a better educated Elon.

He wasn’t better educated. How did someone from Phillips Andover have such a low SAT score and still get into Princeton? His verbal SAT was arounc 610. He got plenty of C’s, D’s and F’s at Princeton. Someone on the documentary alluded to the fact it was surprising he had an engineering degree because he clearly didn’t understand so many things.

lol are you seriously asking this question? He was a legacy at Princeton. Do you honestly believe everyone who gets into Princeton is just super smart?

You wouldn’t get into Princeton nowadays with those scores unless your parents donated a whole wing of buildings. But it was possible in the 70s as just a regular rich legacy. Things have changed so much over time.

I think what makes this case so fascinating is that this guy loved attention so there are just so many videos of him bragging about the exact stuff that got him killed.

The fact that there were just so so many warnings and red flags and he was so reckless about it is chilling. If you look into it, Nargolet had also had people warn him about the dangers and by lending his Titanic fame to Oceangate, he legitimized the operation.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He was a better educated Elon.

He wasn’t better educated. How did someone from Phillips Andover have such a low SAT score and still get into Princeton? His verbal SAT was arounc 610. He got plenty of C’s, D’s and F’s at Princeton. Someone on the documentary alluded to the fact it was surprising he had an engineering degree because he clearly didn’t understand so many things.

lol are you seriously asking this question? He was a legacy at Princeton. Do you honestly believe everyone who gets into Princeton is just super smart?

Anonymous wrote:He was a better educated Elon.

He wasn’t better educated. How did someone from Phillips Andover have such a low SAT score and still get into Princeton? His verbal SAT was arounc 610. He got plenty of C’s, D’s and F’s at Princeton. Someone on the documentary alluded to the fact it was surprising he had an engineering degree because he clearly didn’t understand so many things.

I watched the Netflix one and the HBO doc and thought the HBO version was much better

He was a better educated Elon.

I mean, this personality type is extremely common and these types of men can be found all over corporate America. The real problem is when this type of person has enough money to do real damage to other people.

It reminded me of maha. Stockton Rush is to submersibles as rfk jr is to public health.

Did it remind you of Trump at all? Hear me out.

Competent people kept quitting over the years (when they realized how narcissistic, delusional and dangerous he was).

I think the Republicans in Congress should watch it as a cautionary tale.

Zero percent shocked that he was a jerky rich guy Elon wannabe who felt that having money meant he could do what he wanted and out others at risk.

It was a good and thorough doc but I lost interest at parts.

I just finished this and it was really good. It’s of course sad but I was relieved that it wasn’t morbidly dwelling on the accident itself but instead looked back to the preceding years and how it was able to happen. (Spoiler: it was largely because the overgrown rich kid in charge seems to have been a sociopath with no technical chops whatsoever.)