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offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-21 00:55 [#02628774]
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how do we feel about ourselves as we wait to find out the
inevitable: a bunch of rich twits have just made themselves
a permanent part of the titanic wreck, including one "Ham
Harding," the submarine CEO Stockton Rush, standard rich
people names, then Paul Henry Nargeolet, obviously a french
sub piloot, then some pakistani billionaire and his son

the idea of "give rich people a tour to pay for research"
oh, well, i guess it about cancels out. solid enough. then
it goes wrong and is it just me or is it in the back of
everyone's brain, a growing giggle that these people have
paid $250k a head to bury themselves under the ocean? more
than most earn in a year for a lark, and it ends them?

and i feel the collective psyche torn between human
compassion and schadenfreude

do you feel this to be an accurate summation of the sub
situation?
[proud of my phrasing, here]


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-21 01:02 [#02628775]
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summary: the sub suffered a catastrophic event due to
weather on the way to the titantic wreck. they didn't even
get to see it on the sub's TV screens. "it disappeared" and
"it's a submarine" lead to some obvious fucking conclusions,
esp. if you've already gone out to where you lost it and
don't find it floating on the surface with an emergency
lamp. weather sent it into rocks, the hull imploded, and "we
lost a lost of valuable clients today" takes on new meaning
etc

but it's the predictable "oh technically the sub has two
days air left" when that probably all of that leaked out on
impact. just my two cents, though as i am not a british
billionaire adventurer i may have it wrong


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-21 01:02 [#02628776]
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richard never bought a submarine because it's even stupider
than the helicopter idea


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2023-06-21 07:41 [#02628781]
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i can see this project appeared kind of pointless.
however i love deep sea diving and i respect everyone who
has the guts to go down miles and tons of water. just hoping
they dont ruin the deep sea with mining as they plan to do,
submersible machines scraping all along the bottom of the
sea, killing everything in their way for a little mangan.
that is a real tragedy in my eyes.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 01:18 [#02628814]
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i cannot imagine a more horrid way to die than slowly
suffocating on a submarine with a pakistani billionaire and
his obese son. the smell would be intolerable. or imagine if
it was simply dead and you're ten kliks under and the sub is
just rolling like a-ing pin and then vomit gets involved

so it's probably rather kind that CNN is using the words
"catastrophic implosion." that it was quick and not a slow
death of stewing in curry farts


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 01:40 [#02628815]
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meanwhile i hear shit back like "well you didn't submit the
proper paperwork to survive america's healthcare system" and
boo hoo they all died.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 01:45 [#02628816]
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still dealing with nonsense bills from my foot, as, for like
six weeks, i was depressed, useless, and obviously not
getting much work done. there was no coherent option of
disability whatever available and apparently it's my fault
my foot is broken and i live in a house with a basement, two
floors, studio in the attic, forced to move to more than
what i need after landlady sold the rental out from
underneath everyone in 2020, and i'm so fucked if i have to
move now. so my mood is rather unforgiving, here: enjoy your
$250k per person catastrophic implosion vacation you
overpriviledged shits. that firefox thinks underprivileged
is a word but overprivileged isn't. and a pakistani fart
ruptured dat hull.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 04:02 [#02628824]
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Azmeh Dawood — the older sister of Pakistani
businessman Shahzada Dawood — told NBC News that her
nephew, Suleman, informed a relative that he “wasn’t
very up for it” and felt “terrified” about the trip to
explore the wreckage of the Titanic.


smart kid!

But the 19-year-old ended up going aboard OceanGate’s
22-foot submersible because the trip fell over Father’s
Day weekend and he was eager to please his dad, who was
passionate about the lore of the Titanic, according to
Azmeh.


nevermind; dumb shit.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 04:07 [#02628825]
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personally? it's a bit of a strange tangent. my father was
generally sure of himself but if i vehemently mounted a
coherent argument, then, well, kind of furrowing of the
brows, and... really? do you think so?

because if my son thinks this might be so, then perhaps i'm
wrong and it is, because he's my son, after all, and i
should expect to be over-ruled at times if he has anything
close to what i hope for out of him with respect to clever.

...but my father was not a billionaire with the overinflated
ego that comes along with it, and, i swear -- if this was my
dad and i, even at the tender age of 19, i would have
strongly argued against this idea and my dad would have
listened. but when dad is a billionaire, it's harder to
question him, and the whole dynasty goes down to the ship;
good riddance.

sending some of my bile down to the depths with them.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 04:18 [#02628826]
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LAZY_TITLE


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 04:22 [#02628827]
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that i'm posting that for the lyrics, the subject... but
jeebush garsh... i so need to sample... 3:18, tho, just
after she's under the miller's dam... that twWAaaaWong,..
that has been one of my favorite sonic moments since i was
like ten. yes i am behind on sampling here


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2023-06-23 07:51 [#02628828]
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anyone wondered how tasteless it is to visit the wet grave
of thousands of immigrants/travellers? i mean i said i
respect deep divers and i do, but its not really a "nice"
place for a visit.
so now they join company. r.i.p.

people in europe are talking now about how millions are
spent looking for those guys, while thousands drown in the
mediterranean each year trying to escape drought, hunger,
torture, religious nonsense and war.
and rightfully so! coast guard gives a shit and its a
disgrace what politicians do these days to keep immigrants
out.

as for the implosion, im pretty sure its the works of the
atlantians.

im also sorry you have to move out of your flat, epics
thats fucked.
and stop being a fart nazi, curry is great.


 

offline RussellDust on 2023-06-23 19:25 [#02628836]
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Need to change thread tittle to « dead submarine
twits »

I just get annoyed every time someone tells me how stupid
these people are/were. It seems to be the general consensus.



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 21:27 [#02628841]
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just randomly, one day, in the car -- for some reason, as
usual, i remember the exact physical location -- when i was
12 or 14, mum just randomly was telling me about dad. and
reportedly, my dad was emphatic when discussing the
possibility of kids with mum way back when: "I can't handle
it if they're stupid. I can handle it if they're ugly, but I
can't handle it if they're stupid"


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 22:16 [#02628842]
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that really, russell -- i am indignant, here. positively
indignant. with a side of incandescent/effervescent

i'm offering genuine innovation to the conversation with the
pakistani fart angle -- does being stuck on a submarine with
a farting pakistani billionaire seem a good use of $250k to
you? -- and all you can do is complain. SHEESH


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-23 22:17 [#02628844]
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somehow Ham Harding acquired a Riced Out Yugo account last
night and began posting. that site has no freaking quality
control


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2023-06-23 22:22 [#02628845]
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Getting crashed in a can in 0.2 sec with 4 others into human
soup is pretty horrific.


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-24 00:11 [#02628846]
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i still maintain that slowly running out of oxygen over 96
hours -- while trapped inside a small titanium can with a
farting pakistani billionaire and no windows to open -- is
far worse


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-24 00:12 [#02628847]
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i'd go out on a limb and say it was unpleasant in there even
before disaster struck. poor hamish


 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2023-06-24 09:17 [#02628862]
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are you suggesting someone opened the window deliberately?



 

offline RussellDust on 2023-06-24 11:15 [#02628864]
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What if it wasn’t a malfunction or design flaw, but
something spooky like a collision with an USO? Or maybe a
giant squid. Kidnapped by the Lardossen search squad…



 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2023-06-24 11:43 [#02628866]
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javascript:follow('2628828')
a t l a n t i a n s,
or gillmen from lardossa,
octopi are the type of creatures to develop tools and
advanced tech, like we did.
then youd see them cruisin in convertible subs,
casual with their arms out the side, sucked to the chassis,
while playing deep bass music in their pimped rides...


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-25 02:43 [#02628875]
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i'm starting to hear russell -- this is starting to get a
bit stale; we need to innovate a bit and find a new angle to
complain about.

so:

What type of airplanes were searching for the
submersible?


Three C-130 aircraft and three C-17 transport planes from
the U.S. military were scouring the sea in addition to
Canadian military aircraft with sound-sensing
equipment.


it continues:

Profile of the C-130 Hercules


Wingspan 132.7 feet
Length 97.9 ft.
Crew Five total: two pilots, a navigator, flight engineer
and loadmaster
Capacity Capable of airlifting 92 ground troops, 64 fully
equipped paratroopers or 45,000 pounds of cargo

Profile of a P-3C Orion aircraft


Primary function ~ Maritime surveillance and reconnaissance
aircraft, long-range anti-submarine capabilities
Wingspan
99.6 feet
Crew 3 pilots,
2 flight officers,
3 sensor operators,
1 technician


...and, are we keeping tally, here? how many pilots are we
up to now? i'm afraid i've lost count. that just the US
air force
sent at least fifty trained pilots on
top-shelf military gear. for air coverage

...wait, this is ocean. what about boats?

At least five vessels searched the ocean's surface, with
another five on the way, Capt. Jamie Frederick, the First
Coast Guard District response coordinator, said Wednesday.
Also on scene were several private vessels including the
Horizon Arctic, which found the wreckage, and Bahamian and
French research vessels.


...yes, let's contract some private help too. you know, just
in case. in case the government doesn't do a proper job. a
few hundred people from various governments dropping
everything they're doing to charge in and blow, i am sure,
tens of $millions on this "rescue" op... it simply might not
have been enough


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-25 02:45 [#02628876]
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are you suggesting someone opened the window
deliberately?


"In an insane world, it was the sanest choice."

*Linda Hamilton opens the window on the sub, causing
James Cameron's ego to flood in and crush everyone*



 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-25 02:57 [#02628879]
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summary: the sub suffered a catastrophic event due to
weather on the way to the titantic wreck. they didn't even
get to see it on the sub's TV screens. "it disappeared" and
"it's a submarine" lead to some obvious fucking conclusions,
esp. if you've already gone out to where you lost it and
don't find it floating on the surface with an emergency lamp
... "we lost a lost of valuable clients today" takes on new
meaning etc


--EpicMegatrax, June 20

Cameron told BBC News the past week had "felt like a
prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running
around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen
and all this other stuff".

"I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last
known depth and position. That's exactly where they found
it," he continued.


James Cameron -- the freaking hack -- on June 23rd;
clearly lifting the analysis of the world-renowned
submersible expert, EpicMegatrax

EpicMegatrax, wow, what a guy. He's so relevant that
Jean-Michel Basquiat shot up in his bathroom once

(...no, alright, i combined logic with a basic operating
knowledge of physics and said exactly what he said, three
days ahead of him, but i guess i need to learn about how to
talk about My Contacts if i'm to get Kevin Roose's job)


 

offline EpicMegatrax from Greatest Hits on 2023-06-25 03:12 [#02628880]
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° james cameron stealing my valuable research

° LAZY_TITLE fun facts about how the scale of this sub
hunt makes Wagner group look small by comparison

° while i'm on it: throw a rock and you'll hit a story
like... "new hampshire chaps face charges for being FUCKING
IDIOTS at hiking and requiring an expensive rescue" or
"Texas man sent bill for his own rescue because he is a
fucking idiot" -- but that's at the state level. at federal
level, i'm pretty sure no one's ever gotten a bill from the
coast guard. so this extra fancy rescue is on the
house. we have to do everything we can for the family of
hamish harding


 


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