the Titan submersible was somehow - I know, this is genuinely difficult to believe - even stupider than you think click through for a great thread, as long as your “oh god why” tolerance is at high levels
I had a friend with a classic car that for a period of time had a large bucket to catch a rain leak and a plastic garden chair temporarily bolted to the floor in lieu of a passenger seat and I was wary about travelling any distance in that. On land.
Sacrificing safety to do things cheaper is no news at all. What I find astonishing is the fact that the owner did this even though he himself was in the sub for most of the dives. Usually they only risk other peoples lifes.
God I was actually just having a conversation about the Titan sub earlier. My main conclusion was that maybe we should ban flags of convenience because there's no way the US Coast Guard would have allowed that shit in more than a foot of water
The whole thing is astonishingly fractally stupid. Pick any detail, look more closely, and you discover another, stupider recapitulation of all the mistakes at the level of detail you were looking before.
This guy thought rules and regulations based on a century of deep diving experience were bullshit, with predictable results. And Elon Musk is just like this guy.
To be fair though, they did not die from the CO2 scrubbers being basically made of Legos
So the game away I get from this is that the Logitech controller everyone was horrified about when this happened was probably the most robust part of the whole thing.
Imagine trusting your life to some MakerLab bullshit that they let sit uncovered in a parking lot for the better part of a year
What I want to know is who in their right mind cleared this for use? Didn't it have to pass inspection before being allowed to take paying customers?
Omg I have unfinished model starship kits from my childhood that are more seaworthy than this.