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    Not surprising, the card was filled with… UNCOMPRESSIBLE DATA!

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    Tragic?

    Try “predictable”

    Please watch the Netflix documentary if you havent.

    The sub was never meant for that depth and they knew it.

    They could literally hear the carbon fibers snapping every dive.

    They had to retire an entire chassis because it failed at similar depths.

    Nahh, the tragedy is rich people think they are better than physics itself.

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      The tragedy is that more of these rich people don’t test that belief against reality.

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        At least two billionaires keep firing rockets into space as a hobby. It’s only a matter of time.

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            Appeal to their vanity. Start saying how brave the astronauts are and make them celebrities. Give them all the credit. Don’t mention the funders at all.

            Next ones go up with a billionaire on board for sure.

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        it was DIY from start o finish on the craft. as opposed to spending 5-10mil on a spherical TITATANIUM sub. instead he used carbon fiber which was defective airplane parts.

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          How many atmospheres can this ship withstand?

          Well it’s a spaceship airplane, so I’d say anywhere between zero and one."

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          So his goal was to make a deep sea taxi of sorts. Rich guy affordable and capable of carrying more than 1 or 2 people at a time. Based on what I’ve read and seen he had two main reasons for the design:

          1. Titanium/steel would’ve been too heavy and required a different design.
          2. A sphere has too little volume to carry the number of passengers he wanted so he used a cylinder.

          His use of CF was not only mostly untested but where it had been tried it was found lacking. It is strong in one direction but not others. The manufacturing process was very difficult and fraught with issues. Making such a large component that thick meant many many wrappings that had to be precisely done. For instance, they would get bulges that had to be reduced immediately or they’d amplify with more wrappings. So they would grind down those spots and wrap over them. The problem here is now you’ve broken the fibers and created end points and fracture initiation points. Things like the junction between the metal end caps and the CF tube were also an issue.

          He was very cocky about how often you could reuse the vessel and tried to be cheap on testing which would involve sacrificing vessels. At 5,600 PSI small things that you could ignore in, say, an airplane structure, become wildly amplified.

          Personally I didn’t see the point of the whole trip except for bragging rights. You’d be watching most things on a monitor anyway and your porthole was this little, very thick, acrylic hole. You might as well send a robot down and watch on a screen on the ship.

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            being a cylinder there was also greater surface area for pressure points too. i read the articles after it imploded, he reused the sub, after it already has been too deep.

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        Considering that is basically the only time it could fail, I would say the chances were pretty high.

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      The main issue with the Titan wasn’t as much the depth as it was cyclic loading

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        No, it was entirely the depth. They tested it in the lab and saw many failures but never changed the design.

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    Damn, that’s promotional material that SanDisk would probably not want to have.

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      Why not? If anything, it shows how durable their product is. If it were my company, I would market the shit out of this.

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        It shows how durable their product is… when stored in an enclosure designed to protect it. The SD card probably didn’t even experience an increase in air pressure.

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      Nah, more like great promo material for the camera that survived the whole mess mostly intact.

      Too bad they dropped the ball by not having the decryption keys for the actual video on the card.

      Edit: Apparently they’ve recover the files.

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    Spoiler: Nothing about the big boom or that trip was on it (as designed, lol), but it’s cool that it survived.

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      A tragedy is an event of great loss, usually of human life. Such an event is said to be tragic. Traditionally, the event would require “some element of moral failure, some flaw in character, or some extraordinary combination of elements” to be tragic.

      To me this is tragic even in the Greek sense

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    That even a depth rated camera is broken can easily explained with the point that the implosion produced shock waves with pressure spikes easily exceeding the official ratings of the camera.

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      I would feel bad if we had to kill a very young adult and respectable frenchman for every three asshole-rich fat cats. Maybe I’m wrong about the frenchman, but I don’t recall him being rich, just the ‘expert’ on the dive. I think tragic still applies for them.

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        Well, he was probably “rich” in that he has acquired his own wealth, but I don’t think that’s what you mean.

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      Encrypted. Was a whole thing to recover the keys from a damaged board, only to find old videos and photos from previous dives.

      Apparently they were streaming the video to the inside of the sub, so it wasn’t saved to that card.

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    “Somewhat disappointingly, the images and videos shared in the report were taken in the vicinity of the ROV shop at the Marine Institute”

    There, saved you a long read

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    Unfortunately it only had older still photos and videos, nothing from the last dive. Looks like they had the camera configured to send the data to the onboard computers and those were smashed into a soild mass, of which, no data was able to be recovered from.

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    Tragic? What was tragic about it? It were just some insanely rich doing something insanely stupid: dive in an untested home made tube built from rejected discarded build materials to dive to insane depths to disrupt a protected monument of something which killed thousands.

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      The kid that was killed didn’t want to be there. He was terrified. He only went because rich daddy insisted & paid for him to come along. That’s tragic.

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            I never said that. I’m just annoyed that when a rich person dies, it’s world news and “a tragedy” while when a poor kid or a non-white kid dies no one gives a shit. A school shooting and too man doors are being blamed and it is written off as “collateral damage” to preserve the second amendment but when a rich guy is killed the murderer is being labeled a terrorist and the death penalty is being sought. Steal 3 times something small from the store and get 25 years but scam thousands of people including the government for millions/billions and get 2 months if any at all. Why would I care about a rich kid when the rich only care about themselves. Sure, it’s sad for the kid he got pushed into something completely stupid and dangerous and had to pay for it with his life. At the same time we as the west are still supporting genocide and other horrible war crimes, costing the lives of thousands of children while people protesting this are treated as terrorists and criminals. It’s just a matter of perspective. Most rich kids end up not paying taxes like their parents and getting richer at the cost of others. So when a rich kid dies, I’m not going to care more than when anyone else dies. Especially when it happens by something so dumb as the Titan “tragedy”.

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              Those rich people are demanding Trump to take away the health care from millions, so they can get a tax cut they don’t need, and won’t even notice. That kid would have been doing the same thing in 20 years, so I don’t feel bad for him or any of the rest of them. They paid a lot of money for an adventure that would give them bragging rights, and got a bigger adventure than they bargained for.

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      There was also a famous ocean explorer on board they were using as a prop for their company. He’d done great work exploring shipwrecks previously and not a billionaire

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        And despite his knowledge and experience, chose to join the haphazard mission in pursuit of something he apparently valued more than the risks. So it sounds like he made a very clear choice and was dealt the expected hand from said choice.

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      I think maybe the point about the Kid is being missed.

      Yeah super rich. Yeah didn’t want to be there.

      But to change things you need people with resources on your side. The young are significantly easier to do this with.

      If we demonstrate that we have empathy for all of the vulnerable (as we should) those young ones can see the power of empathy.

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        “Then I stepped back and gave them space to set [Suleman] up, because he really wanted to go,” she said."

        This is from the mom in a BBC article. And he was 19 not a kid.

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          In older articles they stated he did not want to go and they never gave his age. Were they early attempts at propagandizing sympathy for the rich?

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        Yeah, hating on the kid simply because his dad has money forces him into an us-vs-them situation. It does nothing to help.

        Not to mention, it is exceedingly gross to cheer the death of someone just because their dad has money.