- flatbield ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) English50•1 year ago
Sounds like Rush was one of those risk takers and visionaries. These sorts of people hold themselves up as beacons of light and others do too until the risk taking catches up.
I remember I had a boss that liked some book they read about one of these sorts of people. My boss even had the company buy each of us a copy to read. I skipped it. What I remember though was the the guy died while doing one of their risky things maybe 6 months later. Just thought it was classic. Guy held up as an example by people in authority shows how stupid those people are by getting himself killed.
- detectivemittens ( @detectivemittens@beehaw.org ) English20•1 year ago
The nicest thing I can say about this guy is… umm… he died doing what he loved?
- androogee (they/she) ( @androogee@midwest.social ) English20•1 year ago
Honestly… I can only hope that when I go, I take a handful of rich businessmen with me.
- FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
And also one of their kids, who didn’t really want to go?
I don’t like gloating over the death of random rich people. If people being rich is a problem then this isn’t the right solution.
- kembik ( @kembik@lemm.ee ) English18•1 year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIyin68vEE
This interview with James Cameron is pretty good, talks about the design issues in detail.
- wet_lettuce ( @wet_lettuce@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
James Cameron seems like a really smart dude.
- LemonKiwiCherry ( @LemonKiwiCherry@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
Why does he look like Father Ted Crilly, though? 🤔
- livus ( @livus@kbin.social ) 12•1 year ago
“I hear you’re a submarinist now, Father”.
Careful now.
- Zacpod ( @Zacpod@lemmy.villa-straylight.social ) 8•1 year ago
The water was just resting in the submarine!
- dave ( @dave@feddit.uk ) English3•1 year ago
And the money was just resting in his account.
- Anissem ( @Anissem@kbin.social ) 15•1 year ago
The cracking is science noises that you just can’t understand, now that will be 250k
- hawkwind ( @hawkwind@lemmy.management ) English9•1 year ago
Say what you want about the guy. He was confident enough to convince others and hubris fucked him hard. No human deserves to die, but there should be consequences if your this fucking delusional.
- CrimsonOnoscopy ( @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org ) English3•1 year ago
Idk: I can think of some tyrants and war criminals who deserve death.
I don’t think Nuremberg was a mistake
- abogical ( @abogical@lemmy.one ) English8•1 year ago
I doubt this is true. The hull is made out of carbon fiber. It doesn’t “crack”, it shatters.
- Killer57 ( @Killer57@lemmynsfw.com ) English7•1 year ago
Stockton Rush, the former CEO of Oceangate held a patent on a system that would listen for cracking of the hull that would warn of hull failure, I wonder how it worked out for him.
- Hedup ( @Hedup@lemm.ee ) English4•1 year ago
As Cameron said, when you hear these “warnings” they tell you that you are already dead.
- BitOneZero ( @BitOneZero@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Since the 1990’s I’ve known people who ride around in old VW’s because they were cool. They are not overbuilt and rust is a real problem, but I don’t see people worry when 4 people are in the car. I see 6 people in the back of a pickup truck on a regular basis. People will do very risky things on wheeled transportation with high death rates. But when it comes to airplanes, they are hyper concerned about safety. I think people worry too much about the way they are gong to die or the details of a person’s last week alive. Makes them ignore the risks in front of them, like car wrecks.