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  1. Watching a documentary on #Oceangate. #StocktonRush is like when you were a kid and wanted to make a submarine out of the box your parents' refrigerator came in.

  2. Musk whines about this sort of thing all the time, and his latest rockets keep exploding? Hmmmmm

    #SpaceX #ElonMusk #Musk #Oceangate #StocktonRush

  3. Does #Antifa or #Socialism have a means of giving people a posthumous #medal, I wonder? I suspect Stockton Rush would be high on their list:

    > “He definitely knew it was going to end like this [...]" Stanley said. “He was the last person to murder two #billionaires at once and have them pay for the privilege.”

    > “I think Stockton was designing a mousetrap for billionaires,” Stanley added.

    theguardian.com/world/2023/jul

    #AntifaHQ #StocktonRush #Oceangate #Titan #BuildABetterMousetrap #Awards

  4. @madhukumarc @almondtree

    I'd like to be remembered as an innovator. I think it was General [Douglas] MacArthur who said, 'You're remembered for the rules you break…And I've broken some rules to make this. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me." —#StocktonRush #TitanSubmersible

  5. @maegul @hrefna Innovation my asp. #stocktonrush was in a hurry to exploit deep sea mining & he didn’t have the money or investors to do it properly. His solution? Put the lives of people at risk. It was greed, entitlement, & a desperate need to be as well-known as Branson or Elon. #titan #titanic

  6. I asked #BingChat (creative) to write a nursery rhyme about a billionaire visiting the Titanic wreck in his submersible

    The chatbot generated something a bit dark

    Notice that I made no mention of #Titan, #StocktonRush, or #OceanGate and it doesn't look like it did a specific Internet search for the prompt

    #generativeAI #LargeLanguageModels

  7. @deegeese @mihor IKR ? His solutions to the chronic safety issues of Titan all seemed to be based on whether they sounded “tech” rather than being of any use. He seems to have been a delusional salesman rather than an engineer. #Titan #stocktonrush

  8. " '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

    news.yahoo.com/oceangates-form

    #ExtremeTourism #ExtremeCretinism #MoveFastAndKillPeople

  9. tfw you finally have enough discretionary income to lash out on a (discounted, introductory offer) subscription to #TheNewYorker.
    Time to go back to all of those links I saved for the day when the paywall was no barrier.
    Huzzah!
    Props to @Dhmspector for the tweet and @dropbear for the boost of the article about #StocktonRush and the #Titan. You gave me the nudge I needed. Muchas gracias.

  10. CW: Stockton Rush and his failed submersible

    This New Yorker report is both fascinating and appalling. As I read of Stockton Rush and how he operates, I was *strongly* reminded of Elon Musk, another rash disrupter.

    Recommended.

    archive.ph/GGoDi

    #Titanic #Titan #OceanGate #StocktonRush