A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Aug 7, 2023

ALL IN THE SAME BOAT

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

A few months ago some rich people paid a company called OceanGate a whole lot of money to get into a submersible to go to the bottom of the ocean in order to see the wreckage of the Titanic.

That's a lot of terms. Some definitions are likely in order.

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/all-in-the-same-boat

All In The Same Boat

A story about different kinds of innovation, and re-asking an ancient question.

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“The Titanic” is a very large ship from early last century that was unsinkable, its builders and owners said, and they believed it, too—so much that in order to make its maiden trip a bit more convenient and impressively speedy, the captain set a course and a velocity that risked collision with North Atlantic icebergs, and then the Titanic collided with one of those icebergs.
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@JuliusGoat Yeah, considering it was never tested against anti-ship cannons/guns, that seems like such a very weird statement to me.

What exactly were they relying on to claim it couldn't be sunk that didn't amount to hopes & wishes (and gratuitous grifting)?

Aug 7, 2023 at 4:36pmWeb