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Did Karma Come A Full Circle With Titan?

Posted by $ rainman0720 10 months, 1 week ago to Culture
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Recently, Stockton Rush (CEO of OceanGate) boasted that he hired people to drive the sub Titan who specifically were not "50 year old white guys with military experience"; rather, he wanted his team "to be younger, to be insprational".

When I saw that, I started laughing; in my head, I had a vision that one of his "diversity" pilots did something stupid (or did something no experienced sub captain would have done) and ultimately crashed the mini-sub. And whatever mistake this "younger" and "inspirational" pilot made, I'm fairly certain that a "50-year-old-white-guy-with-military-experience" would probably NOT made that mistake.

If I'm right, it's too bad that four other people lost their lives when nature decided to clean the gene pool by deep-sixing this idiot (pun intended).
SOURCE URL: https://www.westernjournal.com/titanic-sub-ceo-admitted-hired-diversity-shunned-50-year-old-white-guys-military-experience/

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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 10 months, 1 week ago
    This is a theory that's been bothering me for quite a while. Let's trash all the 'old' people...they've outlived their usefulness. If you believe that BS I'll sell you a bridge. Some people still have a brain
    after 50, 60, 70, even 80! And my Aunt Jodie chastised me when she was 104! NB
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  • Posted by mhubb 10 months, 1 week ago
    was likely a scam
    no one was on that junk pile
    they likely wanted new lives

    so now presumed dead

    an implosion at 12,500 feet down... nothing left

    just my theory
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    • Posted by $ BobCat 10 months, 1 week ago
      Something doesn't smell right. Now I read that they detected an implosion shortly after contact was lost...??? Some of the so-called facts and stories just don't add up. I hope some old white 50+ something journalist starts ' following the money trail"....
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    • Posted by AmericanWoman 10 months, 1 week ago
      You sure might be on to something...did anyone see pictures like when they shoot huge sums of money into the atmosphere....those "lost" people walking into the little sub...I have not seen any such pictures one way to get out of debt.
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    • Posted by term2 10 months, 1 week ago
      Interesting theory, but I kind of doubt it. Too many people would have to be in on it, who could spill the beans after the fact.
      I think they were in the sub, it couldn't handle the pressure at some point and came apart, catastrophically making trash out of the sub and the inhabitants ( I wonder if the game controller survived). It happened when they lost contact with the mother ship, basically in close proximity to the titanic wreck.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 10 months, 1 week ago
    He probably couldn't hire any old white dudes, because A. They would want a salary commensurate with their experience and B. They probably all looked at his contraption and knew enough to say "hell no".
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    • Posted by $ rainman0720 10 months, 1 week ago
      Laughing...you may be right about your B option. I've seen a number of articles where former employees and former potential clients voiced everything from trepidations to serious safety concerns about that thing.
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      • Posted by evlwhtguy 10 months, 1 week ago
        saw an interview on youtube with josh Gates that does an exploration/adventure mystery show on history channel or maybe TLC.....I never liked the guy because he always seemed overdramatic in his show getting over the top excited about ridiculously insignificant finds.....He was given a demo ride and offered a full trip to the Titanic...which would have been fabulous for his show. He said that after they experienced 3 system failures in the check ride, he refused to go on the thing again and missed out on a fabulous opportunity to do a show on it,. He was completely different than when he is on his show. I always thought the guy was a nit wit....but apparently this was just an affectation on his part to introduce drama for his shows. He seemed very sharp and pragmatic on that interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7gy3...
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  • Posted by GaryL 10 months, 1 week ago
    In pressures around 6,000 PSI, any bodies down there would be about the size of a Barbi Doll. A loss of interior pressure would result in the tube being crushed to the size of a tuna can. Prayers for the families but those who adventure to the bottom of the sea, top of the mountains and out of our earth's atmosphere no they are playing with death.
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    • Posted by term2 10 months, 1 week ago
      I am not sure exactly how the events would unfold. ultimately once the 6000 psi was applied to the peoples bodies, they would be squashed into a fraction of their current size. As to the hull, the rush of 6000 psi water would probably create some sort of water hammer effect inside the sub and blow it apart. In any event, its not going to be some sort of slow internal pressurization thing resulting in squeezing of life out of the occupants and just s lot of water inside the sub but no breakup.
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      • Posted by $ Markus_Katabri 10 months, 1 week ago
        The Carbon Fiber construction suggests to me instant catastrophic structural failure.
        CF is incredibly rigid.....until it’s not. Then it shatters. There’s minimal deformation.
        But hey.....I’m just a 50 year old White Guy. What do I know?
        Apparently more than a spoon in the mouth former aerospace engineer named Rush.
        CF is a terrible material choice for that application. But I’m sure it was much cheaper than HY80. On the plus side CF is very light. So there is that. If weight was a huge concern. But I’m finding it hard to justify that benefit in this application.
        The most ingenious submersible ever invented was Trieste. Absolutely jaw dropping in it’s simplicity and functionality.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 10 months, 1 week ago
    With age comes wisdom. The older i get the more i wonder how I made it to my age. And the more i appreciate my Dad and his work ethic and accomplishments. He was an Annapolis grad (with honors) and would have taken one look at the sub and said - not on my watch!
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 10 months, 1 week ago
    Yesterday me dino learned that those who sign the OceanGate suicide sub mission liability waiver reads some form of a "you may get killed way, way down there" in three places on the first page.
    Well, hey, what the hell? Now CEO Stockton Rush remains free of liability to go back to the good ole' drawing board to design a sub that "builds back better." Blub! Blub!
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  • Posted by $ gharkness 10 months, 1 week ago
    While all this was going on, we were driving 900 miles, and I refuse to allow satellite radio in my vehicle. So....I know very little, but sounds like a nice, big SNAFU to keep everyone's attention off Hunter and his legal woes.

    Looks like it worked for the most part, too.
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  • Posted by term2 10 months, 1 week ago
    The CEO WAS the captain and pilot. I think it will come out that it was the hull that came apart in the area above the actual sea floor. we will c hor it comes out. Looking at the time the dive started and when they lost contact, compared with the time the navy hears the explosion sonar anomaly will tell a lot.

    It not an issue of karma. Its pressure and construction and perhaps minute cracks in the materials that gave way.
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