#oceangate — Public Fediverse posts

Regent’s challenging path to a seaglider first flight

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theaircurrent.com/aircraft-development/regent-viceroy-seaglider-first-flight/

Remember #OceanGate ?

Well, thats yesterdays news!

Killing #billionaires in the deep sea just isn't any challenge at all.

We can do better then that:

"#Söhnlein believes humans could live in that area IF a #SpaceStation could be designed to withstand the #SulfuricAcid in the clouds." (emphasis added)

Yea, that's more like it. Building a structure to survive a in an acid atmo, hangiging over a hellish hot place, closer to the sun.

And I was making fun of #SpaceGate.

https://interestingengineering.com/science/oceangate-co-founder-wants-to-send-1000-people-to-venus-by-2050

" 'It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,' she told the New Yorker."

#OceanGate's former finance director said she quit when #StocktonRush asked her to be the #TitanicSub|mersible's chief pilot after firing the original one for raising safety issues: report

https://news.yahoo.com/oceangates-former-finance-director-said-051737973.html

#ExtremeTourism #ExtremeCretinism #MoveFastAndKillPeople

Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65998914
#TitanicSub #OceanGate

Peter Brookes Times cartoon
2023-06-21 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-brookes-times-cartoon-june-22-2023-5x8sr09zh
#PeterBrookes #Timescartoon #cartoon
#Titanicsub #Titanic #OceanGate #Titan #TitanicRescue #submarinemissing #IMPLODED #Titansub #Titansubmersible #2023Titansubmersibleincident
#Mediterraneanmigrantboat
#2023Messeniamigrantboatdisaster

While tragic, at least the passengers on the Titan probably died quickly. The contrast with events in the Mediterranean is stark.
Image credit: https://twitter.com/NeuroPoetica/status/1671922719997173761
#TitanicSub #Titan #OceanGate #Refugees