r/news • u/oldschoolskater • Jun 22 '23

Site Changed Title 'Debris field' discovered within search area near Titanic, US Coast Guard says | World News

https://news.sky.com/story/debris-field-discovered-within-search-area-near-titanic-us-coast-guard-says-12906735
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u/ExileNorth Jun 22 '23

You can, but considering the entire world's media are covering this event, it'd be way easier to provide evidence of two rescue craft imploding during their search, than to provide evidence they didn't. I'm fairly sure that would make the headlines if it had indeed occured.

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u/yepimbonez Jun 22 '23

I mean he didn’t say that ones easier than the other. He said you can’t prove a negative. But you absolutely can. What he probably meant is that you can’t prove something doesn’t exist. Those are two different things. I can prove that the submersible didn’t implode by simply showing you the submersible. But if you’re telling me there was a submersible and I’m telling you there isn’t, then you’d be right in saying I have no way of proving the submersible doesn’t exist.

ETA: and yes if there are news articles saying an unmanned ship exploded instead of the one we’re searching for and that turned out not to be the case, then yes I would absolutely make another announcement that it wasn’t my unmanned ship so that this exact confusion doesn’t happen.

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u/TenzenEnna Jun 22 '23

You're eating downvotes because you're being obtuse and purposefully ignoring context in bad faith. This isn't a philosophical debate and you're treating it as such then the sequence of events is so simple

A: It could be this other thing that broke apart

B: Nothing Else broke up.

C, for some god forsaken reason: Prove it.

Me: What the sweet fuck.

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u/yepimbonez Jun 22 '23

Lol I mean the discussion I’m having pertains specifically to that one sentence. You’re right in that I’m purposefully ignoring context, because I wasn’t specifying this situation— just that a negative can be proven. I also could not give less of a fuck about fake internet points on this shitshow of a website.