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Ralph Crammed In posted:Imagine being a billionaire and cheaping out on your submarine expedition. You could go in the nice one James Cameron went down on but no you got to get into the fart tube to save the equivalent of the money you make while taking a shower in the morning. Was just about to post the same thing. You managed to amass over a billion dollars and you're willing to bet it all on some shitbox someone threw together in their backyard. WTF.
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Ralph Crammed In posted:When I first read about this I thought "oh drat, one of those submersibles went down? Those are so technically advanced! Something very unfortunate must have happened." I was thinking of the ALVIN or ALVIN 2, which if you are of a certain age you may have seen the IMAX documentary featuring it and its trip to the Titanic. And then I saw it was that jury-rigged fiberglass tube. You couldn't get me on that to explore the bottom of Lake Coeur d'alene, much less 4 kilometers down. Oh yeah, I used to think ALVIN was the coolest thing ever when I was a kid because I was a huge nerd. I actually met a couple of people who had worked with it about 10 years back through the sons of my mom's boyfriend at the time. Sadly, I don't really remember anything about the interaction.
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Tarkus posted:He makes a satisfying ping when he hits. I involuntarily giggled in the theater when that happened and I got some looks. I laughed out loud and also got some looks.
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Ratjaculation posted:Just catching up on the lols And most likely because the company wanted to try to blame government response to skirt any sort of liability for being incredibly incompentent.
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