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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

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  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  SydBarrett

  "That’s the wrong way round. Primates didn’t evolve from hominoids, hominoids evolved from early primates."
  
  Right you are.
  
  But the larger point of common ancestry still stands.
  
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  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

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  SydBarrett

  "People who say the term ape is “unhelpful” if used that way - Coft"
  
  It is unhelpful. Because it gives rise to dumb questions like "if humans evolved from ape's, then why are there still apes?"
  
  Humans, chimps, gorillas are all apes. We are different branches that all descended from a common hominoid ancestor. Go even further back and all primates including monkeys will have a common ancestor. (all apes are primates, but not all primates are apes)
  
  You can keep carrying it back and eventually you'll reach a common ancestor of all mammals. You can carry this even farther back until you reach a common single celled ancestor of all life on earth.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

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  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "Wasn't the CEO one of the passengers on this trip?"

  
  

  Yes. He was the one piloting it.
  
  "the craft was designed to reach depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet), where the Titanic rested. But, according to Lochridge, the passenger viewport was only certified for depths of up to 1,300 meters (4,265 feet), and OceanGate would not pay for the manufacturer to build a viewport certified for 4,000 meters."
  
  I dont think he was right in the head..
  
  He was quoted as stating his worst fear was a situation where he could not ascend to the surface. You'd think his worst fear would be descending to 3X the depth the viewport was rated for.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "Just more casulties of wokeness. The CEO wanted to be "inspirational" and "50 year old white guys" aren't so he didn't hire them."
  
  
  
  Try again. The CEO was a big time Republican donor and general shiatty person. More like, he didn't want to pay experienced 55 year old engineers what they were asking and they didn't want to take a ride in his suicide tube.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "Things like a secondary power and/or propulsion source, or a backup means of communicating with another vessel or the surface, should be the minimum safety for a deep-sea diving vessel such as this."

  
  I read that normally on these types of deep sea mini subs subs, the ballast (weights) that allow the vessel to sink to the ocean floor are held in place on the bottom of the sub with electro-magnets, so in the event of power loss, the magnets shut off, the ballast automatically drops and the ship ascends back to the surface. Since they are on the bottom, this works even if you're sitting on the ocean floor. Sounds like a pretty clever way to do things.
  
  However on the lost sub: "the ballast is abandoned construction pipes that are sitting on shelves on the side of the thing, and the way you detach the ballast is you get everybody on-board to lean to one side of the sub and they roll off"
  
  The problem with this is obvious. If you're sitting flat on the ocean floor with no power, you're not gonna be able to rock the sub side to side to have the ballast roll off. Seems like in addition to all the other questionable design decisions, just learning that this is your method of getting back home would cause any potential passengers to say 'oh hell no'.
  
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  196

  would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?

  by ExBethelitenowPIMA in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  a good question is would you be more happy not knowing what you now know?.

  were you more happy pimi?

  are all the pimis more happy than the the pimos or the pomos?.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  SydBarrett

  ".......and how it can brake the first and second law of thermodynamics, spontaneously"
  

  
  
  
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "Thanks for the post. I can’t figure why no gps or a hundred or so signaling devices so rescue can track in a case like this. How dumb to make such a vessel lacking undefeatable safety features such as emergency communications for tracking . Even if the vessels blows up or something they should have built it with fool proof communication first."
  
  I don't see that communication matters so much. Its more about how such vessels need to have multiple redundant features.

  
  I don't understand how they are gonna have a hard time finding it once they round up one of the few vessels capable of going that deep. It goes down. Directly down. 2 miles. It's gonna be in the vicinity of the Titanic. It's not gonna be off the coast of Australia.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "With taken adventures to going to the moon,,taking adventures to the Titanic on a submarine & climbing Mt Everest there is an assumed risk.

  Going into orbit around the earth,, an assumed risk."
  
  Not exactly the same, though. Climbing Everest these days you pass the the frozen corpses of people still in gear who died trying to do the same pointless thing thats already been done.
  
  Story Musgrave taking a risk as part of his profession to spacewalk and fix the Hubble Telescope is not the same as a bored fat multi-millionaire hiring some sherpa's to guide him to the top of Everest and getting everyone killed.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

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  SydBarrett

  "I wonder why I'm supposed to care about some morons that risk their lives to get some kicks. It seems like a dangerous affair, with the thing controlled by a crappy $15 game controller!

  So I don't give a damn, just as I don't care about the pricks that freeze to death on Everest - you wanted adventure? You got it ... oh, you thought it was going to be a cool anecdote at dinner parties did you? Too bad, so sad."
  
  Im not telling you to shed tears. I read both "into the wild" and "into thin air" by John Krakauer, and I thought both the amateur party that attempted Everest and the lone guy who went into the Alaskan wilderness with minimal supplies were morons. I can hold that they are morons while also being interested in the gory details.
  
  I just wonder if these particular morons were crushed in a fraction of an instant or if they are sitting at the bottom of the ocean in pitch dark with the hull creaking as we speak.
  
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  The currently missing 'Titan' submarine. What do you think?

  by SydBarrett in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface.

  terrifying.

  what's your gut feeling?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  SydBarrett

  Any opinions are just speculation, but my guess, being morbid, is that there was not a hull breach and implosion (although that would have been the most merciful fate for them), but instead the amateur level of building this thing meant that it lost power and communication and got itself tangled in the Titanic's wreckage or is sitting on the actual seabed with no way to release ballast to resurface. Terrifying.
  
  What's your gut feeling?