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Forgive me if somebody else has already posted about this. What’s going on with that submarine that tried to tour the titanic wreckage?
Is it a stupid idea in the first place? Is there any chance they’ll be rescued?
I’ve been fascinated by the fact that even the richest among us are only surviving because Mother Earth decided not to crush them today. Seems like these people just had their luck run out, and maybe made a really stupid decision?
The more I read about it, the more idiotic it seems.
First, using the Titanic site as a tourist destination seems a little tacky. It's a gravesite, after all. But hey, Modern Times, make money out of dead men's bones, why not?
Then the details of "billionaire paid to go on trip" and the cost, and the details that they used a repurposed game controller to drive the thing.
Now, maybe that's actually feasible, but somehow it doesn't give me a good impression of the entire operation.
I hope the people are rescued, I don't want any deaths, but I also hope this stops this kind of ghoulish monetisation.
Thus has it ever been.
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