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Daily random discussion - Jun 24, 2023

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Daily random discussion - Jun 24, 2023 - Lemmy.world

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Show threadYeonturaJun 23, 2023

I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic. In your race to [the] Titanic you are mirroring that famous catch cry: 'She is unsinkable'.

-Rob McCallum, leading deep sea exploration specialist, in an email to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush

Show threadwillnever_fadeawayJun 23, 2023
are we supposed to feel bad for the billionaires? they don't give two shits about us.
Show threadExploringLiterature

I only feel bad for the only teenager on the expedition, but this is coming from the fact that they were too young to go. The second article below makes me feel sadder as there was way more loss of life, but oddly enough, not much mention of it on official media channels, at least to my knowledge.

For the OceanGate casualty that was young, allegedly, according to a relative of the teenager who perished, the boy was, in her words, terrified and wasn't up for it. Saying he only did it because it was father's day.

Quite terrifying to imagine the last moments of this young boy, or several hundred of the refugees from the news article below, what they were feeling as they were staring down at their final moments of existence.

Also, it should be noted that another tragedy also happened just this week around the same time the OceanGate thing was happening. It's been heavily debated online why the OceanGate disaster had more airtime as opposed to this massive loss of life just because those who died were richer.

I am only just starting to read up on the immigrant tragedy, and it's a total shitstorm to say the least.

Titanic submersible passenger’s aunt says he was ‘terrified’ before trip

The sister of Shahzada Dawood and aunt to his son, Suleman, spoke after the disappearance and presumed deaths of her relatives in the Titan submersible.

NBC News
Jun 23, 2023 at 8:17pmWeb
Show threadRevalvierJun 23, 2023

For them, based on the report, it is implosion that killed them instantly. So for them, it is like "ooh, the ocean is so dark down here..." then bam! No more consciousness since they are compressed within 0.03 seconds, surely crushing their brains and bodies including that teenager, instantly and turning them into ocean mush for the bottom dwellers to feed.

But of course, dead men and boys don't tell no tales, so we cannot be certain. The scenario above is a rough estimate based on empirical data on the materials of the sub, the depth they are in upon implosion and the simulations of scientists on that situation.

Show threadwillnever_fadeawayJun 23, 2023
Yeah I've seen that news report on the hundreds of refugees that were left to die at sea. But of course the billionaire gets the airtime, a stupid one at that.