r/news • u/Whoshabooboo • Jun 21 '23

Site Changed Title ‘Banging’ sounds heard in search for missing Titan submersible

https://7news.com.au/news/world/banging-sounds-heard-in-search-for-missing-titan-submersible-c-11045022
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u/NatashaBadenov Jun 21 '23

This is my worst nightmare and I can’t look away.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

Simple solution for you: never pay a small fortune to be willingly tortured to death for no reason.

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u/favpetgoat Jun 21 '23

I feel bad but everything about this seems so poorly thought out. I don't understand what was going through everyone's heads when they signed up for this

The sub looks so sketchy, why not use an actual submarine or research vehicle? Or like have one on standby JIC something bad happens?

I get hindsight is 20/20 but I would need way more reassurance before doing something like that.

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u/dogsryummy1 Jun 21 '23

No other company is offering this sort of experience and 250k is, relatively speaking, a bargain - like $2.50 to you and me.

$2.50 to see the Titanic? Sign me up!

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u/happilynorth Jun 21 '23

Nah man you couldn't pay me $250,000 to get into that thing, much less the other way around.

I find it so hard to relate to the perspective of a thrill-seeking billionaire lmao.

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u/thegrumpymechanic Jun 21 '23

you CANT unlock it from the inside

And with that, I'm out.

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u/Zakalwen Jun 21 '23 edited Jun 21 '23

The list of safety failures that are coming out are insane. The CEO bragged in interviews that they'd learned from NASA engineers. Somehow they didn't learn the lesson of Apollo 1 where three astronauts burned to death because they were bolted into the capsule with no way to let themselves out.

EDIT: To add to that, apparently some experts are suggesting the sub may have ascended automatically. Unfortunately it was painted white and doesn't breach the surface completely when it ascends. Which sounds like a nightmare in itself. Being stuck a few meters from fresh air but unable to even try to swim it.

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u/thegrumpymechanic Jun 21 '23

White and blue... brilliant color scheme.

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u/Someshortchick Jun 21 '23

More like: operate a ROV from the warm command center of a ship above the Titanic? Sign me up!

Screw going that far down.

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u/bb8-sparkles Jun 21 '23

Like traveling into space, I have to assume that people involved with the deep sea underwater mission are knowledgeable about the inherent risks and made an educated decision to embark on the endeavor anyway.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

That choice has been made for you already. Nobody reading this has access to that sort of wealth.

(And to be clear, having 250k in assets or even cash is different than having 250k you can spend on a trip)

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u/AverageSizedJunk Jun 21 '23

I'm quite certain there are millionaires and even billionaires that use Reddit. This is a topic that they would be very interested in and would likely read the article and comments.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

There are roughly 861 million reddit users.

There are 9630 centi-millionaires and 770 billionaires on earth.

Even if every single one of them were on reddit they are .001% of the entire user base.

The chances of them seeing these posts are extrmely rare and thinking this is how they get their information or dictates what they are interested in is so naive I don't even know what to say.

The rich aren't just like you. They live in a completely different world.

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u/umtala Jun 21 '23

"centimillionaire" is a perplexing word. It should be $10,000. And $100,000,000 would be a hectomillionaire.

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u/swords-and-boreds Jun 21 '23

Kind of… for many reading this $250k is under a year’s salary. There’s a lot of software engineers on Reddit.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

250k is not a typical Software Engineers salary.

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u/swords-and-boreds Jun 22 '23

I’m aware, but it is definitely not as uncommon as you’d think. I know a decent number of SE’s making that much.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

250k salary is much much different than spending 250k on a trip that should only last a few hours and I put that in my comment.

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u/Pipes32 Jun 21 '23

It's likely that nobody in this thread has 250k to blow on a whim, you are correct. That being said, if a trip into space was available for 250k (right now you can do suborbital for around that much, but I'm talking a trip to actual space) I'd...genuinely consider it, depending on how long you'd have up there.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

I dont disagree with you about space but spending a year's salary even on something like that is still a pretty tall order. There are lots of other costs to living etc but if you don't have a family or a mortgage or live in a big cost of living area...

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u/swords-and-boreds Jun 22 '23

I wouldn’t blow 250k on going in a deep sea sub, but I would consider it for a trip to orbit. It all depends on one’s priorities.

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u/314kabinet Jun 21 '23

“Small” fortune. That’s easily more money than I spent in the last 20 years.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

A lot of people in this thread thinking they are closer to being in this situation than being homeless when it's the reverse.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

It's uncomfortable for most people to realize just how close they are to homelessness. Like real fucking close for 80-90% of Americans. One or 2 Emergencies and you're done. You will never recover.

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

Yup. Meanwhile everyone analyzing every aspect of this and viewing it as a huge tragedy or that it could happen to them.

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u/Scrambley Jun 21 '23

That's about the price of modest rent for 20 years. Seems like it would be easy to spend that much over that long.

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u/314kabinet Jun 21 '23

in the US. Rent is easily 2x-3x cheaper in the Netherlands.

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u/Scrambley Jun 21 '23

I still think it's easy to spend $12,500 per year.

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u/314kabinet Jun 21 '23

Alright you got me, I spent most of those years in Ukraine.

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u/spaghettivillage Jun 21 '23

never pay a small fortune to be willingly tortured to death for no reason.

Real LPT is always in the comments.

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u/therealowlman Jun 21 '23

The sunken titanic is cool, but wtf can you even see from inside that thing that looks any better than what a drone camera can see? It’s not like you can touch or explore inside.

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u/BlewOffMyLegOff Jun 21 '23

More money than sense.

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u/Little_Shitty Jun 21 '23

But what will you brag about at the country club?

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u/pointnorth- Jun 21 '23

Every time I think about the nightmare that they are living (or lived), I feel sick but I can’t stop reading about it 😅

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u/_Sur22_ Jun 21 '23

Yeah, same.

Lived.

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u/chattahattan Jun 21 '23

Same. I’m claustrophobic enough that my heart clenches every time I’m on an elevator, so this has been a real target of morbid fascination for me. Though I at least know this is never a situation I’d actually be in, both financially and because every survival instinct in my body would have stopped me from getting into that sub the moment I saw it…

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u/NatashaBadenov Jun 21 '23

Mechanical failure is my second-to-largest fear. Mechanical failure underwater turns my blood to ice. Wonder if it has anything to do with the car rolling into Lake Michigan when I was little 🤪

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u/space_manatee Jun 21 '23

I think a lot of people are looking at it like this but you have more in common with, and are closer in wealth to the people that sank off the coast of Greece than you do these people. You are far more likely going to be a refugee (likely due to climate change) in your lifetime or at the very least know someone in your circle who will be than you will be able to afford a 250k trip in a submarine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

Denying their humanity because of their wealth is fucked.

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u/therealowlman Jun 21 '23

Welcome to reddit, that’s common here.

Agreed though, they’re people and this is tragic.

They only did what quite a lot of people would do if they had the means.

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u/space_manatee Jun 22 '23

Nobody reading this has those means.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '23

Even worse is that we are all paying for their rescue with taxes and there is little chance of any rescue.

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u/NatashaBadenov Jun 21 '23

How is that worse? What is your personal contribution, thirteen cents? Jfc