Goban
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Oceangate
Jun 23, 2023 6:51:05 GMT
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Post by Goban on Jun 23, 2023 6:51:05 GMT
I haven't really followed this, was it a shonky sub then?
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Oceangate
Jun 23, 2023 6:56:11 GMT
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Jun 23, 2023 6:56:11 GMT
*voice of Churchy the dog
Oh yes!
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cubby
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Jun 23, 2023 6:59:31 GMT
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Post by cubby on Jun 23, 2023 6:59:31 GMT
Now it's all the reputable submariners doing the damage control tour of the news channels. Jimmy C himself made an appearance on BBC breakfast to say these guys were fucking cowboys.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 7:01:48 GMT
Of all the things to get obsessed about - and I’m someone with a deeply unhealthy Pokémon problem - the Titanic is the most troubling. Being fascinated with a mass death event is a strange one, but Jack The Ripper freaks are worse. Presumably years from now The Yorkshire Ripper Experience will be a fun day out in Bradford for the 22nd Century family. |
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Jun 23, 2023 7:06:47 GMT
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jun 23, 2023 7:06:47 GMT
Now it's all the reputable submariners doing the damage control tour of the news channels. Jimmy C himself made an appearance on BBC breakfast to say these guys were fucking cowboys. The guy on R5 from the maritime certification board or whatever it is made it very clear that these guys were intentionally operating under their own steam and that it wouldn't have been certified to use in UK/US/Canadian waters. He made it sound like a case to use as a selling point in future certification conversations... 🤔 |
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Jun 23, 2023 7:23:45 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 23, 2023 7:23:45 GMT
Of all the things to get obsessed about - and I’m someone with a deeply unhealthy Pokémon problem - the Titanic is the most troubling. Being fascinated with a mass death event is a strange one, but Jack The Ripper freaks are worse. Presumably years from now The Yorkshire Ripper Experience will be a fun day out in Bradford for the 22nd Century family. They can meet up with the Zodiac club. I find that stuff interesting mainly due to the lack of proof on who the killers were but yeah many take it to the extreme. |
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Jun 23, 2023 7:24:03 GMT
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Post by askew on Jun 23, 2023 7:24:03 GMT
“Move fast and break things”
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Post by Dougs on Jun 23, 2023 7:25:26 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 23, 2023 7:27:57 GMT
Rapture confirmed.
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 23, 2023 7:28:17 GMT
Yep really far fetched that a bunch of billionaires would just blow money like that.
Meanwhile we have 2 trying to set up a cage fight.
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jono62
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Jun 23, 2023 7:28:31 GMT
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Post by jono62 on Jun 23, 2023 7:28:31 GMT
Layah knows.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 23, 2023 7:33:44 GMT
I have bungee jumped before. Yes you have to sign a form, but come on, nobody would have a bungee jumping business if there were any reasonable chance of something going wrong. Even if they weren't legally accountable for a bungee jumping death, their business would be ruined. And rightly so! There's a huge difference between that and taking people to 4km below sea level in a tin can. Maybe that will change with more regulation and safety restrictions, but right now, what they did looks like the height of idiocy. Maybe, but in each case you're basically putting your faith in the company and/or the equipment, and you have limited ability to check it out yourself (unless you're an expert) There's an average of 1.1 bungee jumping deaths per year, and the US alone has 15-20 skydiving deaths per year. So there is risk, but people carry on doing it anyway. |
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Oceangate
Jun 23, 2023 7:40:57 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 23, 2023 7:40:57 GMT
Yeah lots of things have risk but chances are a company giving Bungee jumping experiences are using approved equipment and following safety rules.
This lot cut corners every chance they got.
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Ulythium
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Post by Ulythium on Jun 23, 2023 7:45:22 GMT
Part of me kind of likes the fact that a blue checkmark on Twitter used to be a visual shorthand for, 'noteworthy public figure', and under Musk it has become a visual shorthand for, 'alt-right conspiracy moron.'
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Jun 23, 2023 7:48:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 7:48:09 GMT
Something feels a bit wrong with using a hashtag for implosion after people got turned into fish food.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 23, 2023 7:50:58 GMT
Jimmy C himself made an appearance on BBC breakfast to say these guys were fucking cowboys. ?  |
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Oceangate
Jun 23, 2023 7:51:18 GMT
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Post by baihu1983 on Jun 23, 2023 7:51:18 GMT
Something feels a bit wrong with using a hashtag for implosion after people got turned into fish food. What's made it even more wrong is twitter putting it under entertainment. |
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Post by dogbot on Jun 23, 2023 7:51:22 GMT
I have bungee jumped before. Yes you have to sign a form, but come on, nobody would have a bungee jumping business if there were any reasonable chance of something going wrong. Even if they weren't legally accountable for a bungee jumping death, their business would be ruined. And rightly so! There's a huge difference between that and taking people to 4km below sea level in a tin can. Maybe that will change with more regulation and safety restrictions, but right now, what they did looks like the height of idiocy. Maybe, but in each case you're basically putting your faith in the company and/or the equipment, and you have limited ability to check it out yourself (unless you're an expert) There's an average of 1.1 bungee jumping deaths per year, and the US alone has 15-20 skydiving deaths per year. So there is risk, but people carry on doing it anyway. Both are ridiculously safe compared to say, motorcycle racing. |
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Post by elstoof on Jun 23, 2023 7:52:59 GMT
It’s the canoe guy from Seaton Carew all over again |
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Bongo Heracles
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jun 23, 2023 7:53:27 GMT
This is 'woman falling in river' for people who played with meccano as kids. Its a good job it happened miles out to sea or you would be getting tiktok sleuths turning up to crack the case. |
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Oceangate
Jun 23, 2023 7:53:52 GMT
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Post by simple on Jun 23, 2023 7:53:52 GMT
Yeah lots of things have risk but chances are a company giving Bungee jumping experiences are using approved equipment and following safety rules. This lot cut corners every chance they got. It wasn’t even an on-brand Xbox pad. Total CEX job. |
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dogbot
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Post by dogbot on Jun 23, 2023 7:54:44 GMT
Could we perhaps persuade Elon Musk to put a load of TikTokers in another sub and...
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sport✅
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Post by sport✅ on Jun 23, 2023 7:55:18 GMT
"Titanic ruins"
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Post by elstoof on Jun 23, 2023 8:01:36 GMT
They’ve got more pressing things to do as billionaires surely, you don’t get rich without working hard every hour of the day folks!
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Jun 23, 2023 8:02:04 GMT
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Post by hedben on Jun 23, 2023 8:02:04 GMT
That’s not even a *good* conspiracy theory to push. If I was going for a conspiracy, I’d say they saw unspeakable horrors while they were down there, went mad, and the banging we heard was them trying (and eventually succeeding) to deliberately implode the sub rather than return to the surface.
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Post by elstoof on Jun 23, 2023 8:03:49 GMT
Communist submarine missile was fired to silence them
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Jun 23, 2023 8:12:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2023 8:12:10 GMT
That’s not even a *good* conspiracy theory to push. If I was going for a conspiracy, I’d say they saw unspeakable horrors while they were down there, went mad, and the banging we heard was them trying (and eventually succeeding) to deliberately implode the sub rather than return to the surface. Murder suicide. One of them decided to check out, and what better way than being crushed so fast you barely sense it. There are examples of airline pilots deciding to take a planeload with them, because why the hell not. Humanity. That's my conspiracing done for the day and I'm not even out of bed. |
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Post by mrpon on Jun 23, 2023 8:13:20 GMT
Jimmy C himself made an appearance on BBC breakfast to say these guys were fucking cowboys. ?  |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 23, 2023 8:17:49 GMT
Tom Cruise has let himself go
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Post by mothercruncher on Jun 23, 2023 8:18:57 GMT
Cameron was saying last night that when you’re taking a trip to the Titanic you worry about mitigating entanglement, not the basic integrity of the tub you’re sitting in- that should be a given.
Then, seen the comment from someone who’d been down before in it? They said each of the four times they’d been in it the communications had broken… they went a second, a third and a *fourth* time to find that happen 🙄
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