The team he wants to work with has already been deeper than Titanic. If he is able to not interfere, and give them the resources they need, it needn't end the same way.
Exactly. Let's encourage them, pretend like we all think it's so cool that billionaires keep doing these things and "bravely" risk their lives with a 90% failure rate. Watch them go extinct
Calm down, bloodthirsty children. The Triton submersibles are not using experimental designs and they're far from being untested. They'll be fine. You'll have to get your schadenfreude elsewhere.
Can't we just go with the woodchipper? Not only does it expedite the process with little need for clean-up, we can turn the otherwise worthless carcass into fertilizer in-situ.
Tell you what, beers are on the one that takes the longest to clean up the scene. You take, death by woodchipper, and I'll take the one where there's fuck-all being left of them after a pressurised underwater implosion
Supposedly some other billionaire was planning to build a new titanic, they seem hellbent on keeping the cycle alive somehow. I also fully support these brave business decisions.
What i don't get is the obsession with Titanic. Ok, so it was a historical ocean liner that sunk. And then there was a movie with a fictional love story about it. What else? Why do they obsess about it so much?
I think that one might have been Clive Palmer. The same guy who owned a nickel mine and then stiffed all the workers. The same guy who ran a campaign copying Trump's, paying more for his campaign than the other parties combined and still failed to get a single seat.
If it's the same guy I read about and who was also involved with the "Billionaire Implosion Machine I", he at least planned to hire proven professionals this time.
I mean it isnt that hard to do anymore. The worlds best deepsee submersibles are almost all payed for by excentric ultra rich guys, James Cameron with his Deepsea Challenger then came Victor Vecsovo with the most advanced submersible ever build. The difference is that they didn't cheap out on the construction and design. The DSV Limiting Factor costs 20 times what the Titan did. It was even bought by Gabe Newells deepsea exploration company in 2022 and is still in use today.
And the company that made Limiting Factor is building the new Titanic sub for this billionaire, so sadly he's not gonna pull a Captain Crunch Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
I'm not even really mad about the Limiting Factor, yeah they take tourists with them, but all their dives seem to have been for different reasons and had scientific purpose as well (they mapped out severeal deep sea trenches, observed new deep sea life and identified and explored three WWII shipwrecks). In comparison the Titan was a scam and the boat could as well has been made by ACME...
MyCommentsUsuallyHaveTypos
God, that’s dark. And funny.
purgruv
🎵We all die by the Hell-no Submarine, Hell-no Submarine, Hell-no Submarine…🎶
asaruthismenother
*yoink
Vogerl
I'm still giggling every time I remember the comment "Captain Crunch" :D
Trelis
The team he wants to work with has already been deeper than Titanic. If he is able to not interfere, and give them the resources they need, it needn't end the same way.
VibratingNipples
keyblader1985
This is Concerned Tom energy
gonzar09
Oh, damn! I didn't see this one before, and I'm giggling like a schoolkid.
fnoigy
Exactly. Let's encourage them, pretend like we all think it's so cool that billionaires keep doing these things and "bravely" risk their lives with a 90% failure rate. Watch them go extinct
BrokenAnimal
The classic is more cost effective. Which, ironically, the billionaires should apprechiate.
HelloDarknessMyOld
Doesn't work that way. After using a guillotine you then have to redistribute their wealth.
koitk
new model lets you take your friends with you
tallyhoho
They're doing it again boys! Break out the popcorn for more billionaires imploding under water
16bitStarbuck
Nothing is going to happen. It's a well-tested submersible not made of the experimental crap from before.
FractalShoggoth
You mean like a REAL Xbox controller???
Shoutrr
it's a nice novelty by i kinda like the charm of a public execution
16bitStarbuck
Calm down, bloodthirsty children. The Triton submersibles are not using experimental designs and they're far from being untested. They'll be fine. You'll have to get your schadenfreude elsewhere.
iusedtodream
Unless the Orcas hit it on the way down. A girl can dream.
Dreamscapevast
PhailRaptor
Can't we just go with the woodchipper? Not only does it expedite the process with little need for clean-up, we can turn the otherwise worthless carcass into fertilizer in-situ.
Madv1lla1n
Tell you what, beers are on the one that takes the longest to clean up the scene. You take, death by woodchipper, and I'll take the one where there's fuck-all being left of them after a pressurised underwater implosion
mastshin
only if we do feet first.
ironymus
mrshihtzu
Clearly, next time make sub out of shoe
FerbIsMySpiritAnimal
Shoe crab shoe
compused
The lower photo was released?
chaylar
Heh. Crab. We know why he's there.
SoupCanMan
Because in the end, everyone is crab.
chaylar
crab food
vu1f
Supposedly some other billionaire was planning to build a new titanic, they seem hellbent on keeping the cycle alive somehow. I also fully support these brave business decisions.
Bluedinosaur
What i don't get is the obsession with Titanic. Ok, so it was a historical ocean liner that sunk. And then there was a movie with a fictional love story about it. What else? Why do they obsess about it so much?
neochild
Now we need this to sink and another idiot to build a sub to dive to this new titanic
SlyMrFox
I recall an idea from 20 years ago of building the equivalent of an apartment complex out on the open sea. Wonder what happened to that.
WaterNerdDummy
It's a slow process, once the great Pacific garbage patch gets about 20 feet deep and starts solidifying, we Begin the next step
darkninja2992
Sometimes we have to let natural selection take it's course
Trelis
He also wants it to be anti-vaccine only.
adiving
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-class_ocean_liner#Olympic
Radix865
It is kinda funny how two of the three sunk and the one survivor actually sunk another ship...
FailedMitosis
Ratchet600
I bet they're now doing it to see who doesn't die as a weird dick measuring contest.
KoRplussomeletters
Titanic isn't even that big by modern ship standards.
RyanH42
How do we trick Elon into doing this?
BojanglesTheFlyingCar
You know what would be cool? Riding a Tesla car into space
ahernandez
Really we just need to tell Elon cyber truck drivers look cool. It’ll be taken care of quickly after that
cosonfused
Tell them there are kids stuck in another underground cave.
kahooki
Nah. Just tell him he can't do that.
PrincessDaystar
Some Australian businessdude. "Titanic II" - it failed last i yeard and was being scrapped
evilspyre
Think there is also some rich Chinese dude trying to build one too.
wilkgr
I think that one might have been Clive Palmer. The same guy who owned a nickel mine and then stiffed all the workers. The same guy who ran a campaign copying Trump's, paying more for his campaign than the other parties combined and still failed to get a single seat.
PrincessDaystar
Thats the name yea!
Radix865
According to wikipedia at least, it's being revived and the construction is meant to resume next year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_II#Project_status
PrincessDaystar
..wow same dude he really wants that built
cosonfused
another billionaire is building another submarine to prove it's safe to dive to the titanic.
Radix865
If it's the same guy I read about and who was also involved with the "Billionaire Implosion Machine I", he at least planned to hire proven professionals this time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton_Submarines#Abyssal_Explorer
Admiral27
I mean it isnt that hard to do anymore. The worlds best deepsee submersibles are almost all payed for by excentric ultra rich guys, James Cameron with his Deepsea Challenger then came Victor Vecsovo with the most advanced submersible ever build. The difference is that they didn't cheap out on the construction and design. The DSV Limiting Factor costs 20 times what the Titan did. It was even bought by Gabe Newells deepsea exploration company in 2022 and is still in use today.
PballQhead
And the company that made Limiting Factor is building the new Titanic sub for this billionaire, so sadly he's not gonna pull a Captain Crunch Part 2 Electric Boogaloo
WaterNerdDummy
Captain Crunch Part 2 Electric Boogaloo, made me actually laugh out loud, thanks for that
Admiral27
I'm not even really mad about the Limiting Factor, yeah they take tourists with them, but all their dives seem to have been for different reasons and had scientific purpose as well (they mapped out severeal deep sea trenches, observed new deep sea life and identified and explored three WWII shipwrecks). In comparison the Titan was a scam and the boat could as well has been made by ACME...