— Musings —06.21.2023 01:54 PM
Submarined
Look, I hope the little submarine people are rescued. But they should be sent a big bill when they are. They were completely reckless about the risks and went ahead anyway – for rich-guy tourism in what is a graveyard for 1,500 people. They obviously don’t deserve to perish. But they sure don’t deserve the slavish front-page fawning, either.
Warren,
After all those poor bastards croak, the lawsuits are going to be epic.
I am actually surprised that the author of this book hasn’t been asked to weigh in(that I have seen). Like her first book, I could not put it down. The technology used to rescue the passengers in the book is the technology used to rescue sunken submarines:
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/59345230
Was released three weeks ago.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1663227496689700865
…not to mention, what a contrast: hundreds of refugees drown in the Mediterranean when their rickety boat sinks, while millions are spent looking for 5 wealthy people (they each paid $250 000 for this trip)
Derek,
Let’s just say that not too many in power automatically self-ask the question, What would Jesus do?…
It’s all about money, power and being well connected. And then they start screaming or go beserk when we bring up social or criminal justice reform. Pretty fucking pathetic as societies.
You, Sir, are spot on.
Innocent III,
Thank you, sir or madam. To me it’s logical that if government can take our money as individuals, in the form of taxes, then it’s automatically obligated to do all it can to make society a better place and help collectively speaking, as much as it can. It isn’t rocket science, now is it? We need to look to what Karen Bass is doing in LA as part of our future national template.
It was an extremely foolhardy venture, and it is beginning to sound more and more like the operator of the vessel may have been in way over his head (sorry for the pun). I agree that valuable and expensive resources are being deployed that could in all likelihood be put to better uses (not to mention the inherent danger in ant rescue attempt). Perhaps these types of “adventure tourists” should be required to post a bond in case expensive public resources are required to save them from their own foolishness.
As someone who lives within spitting distance of the north Atlantic in Nova Scotia, I shook my head when I saw that these people are going into a cold and very deep ocean in that little capsule. Leave that grave site alone, respect the loss of those lives. There are grave sites in the city of Halifax to visit if one wishes to honor those lost on the Titanic, but stay out of the wreckage site.
The capsule reminds me of something Red Green might have rigged up. But as the owner of the company mentioned; something about stifling innovation and over regulated safety standards. So to the ocean floor with a role of duct tape and a cheap game controller. And he got rich people to think it was a good idea so he took their money. And now here we are trying to save rich foolish “adventurers” who paid big bucks for the experience. As I saw mentioned on the interwebs, let them breathe their money. Cold notion but an indication of how fed up people are with the billionaire set.
And I wondered the same thing; who is getting a bill for this operation that must be costing millions per day.
Lynn,
You, me and the taxpayer, Canadian or American. That’s who.
By the by, we now have our first trillionaire. Hope he does some good for his fellow humans.
Maybe the ghosts of the Titanic have had enough probing and disturbance. Maybe they are asking for us to respect their eternal peace. My Dad was in the Navy and I played this at his funeral and it may be fitting now-
Eternal Father – The “Navy Hymn”
Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Christ! Whose voice the waters heard
And hushed their raging at Thy word,
Who walked’st on the foaming deep,
And calm amidst its rage didst sleep;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
Most Holy Spirit! Who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace;
Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee,
For those in peril on the sea!
O Trinity of love and power!
Our brethren shield in danger’s hour;
From rock and tempest, fire and foe,
Protect them wheresoe’er they go;
Thus evermore shall rise to Thee
Glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Everyone should be educated in terms of behavioural risk taking when they are kids. Billionaires engaged in
behavioural risk such as gambling with their lives to the point of signing a waiver just in case they die should be advised that their money can’t undo their unchecked behavioural risk taking and therefore they should expect to sleep with the fishes if they have the brains of a fish.
These five wealthy idiots deserve Darwin awards posthumously.
Lemon socialism socializes losses and privatizes gains
for the socialists with the most money. I like the ‘post a bond’ idea mentioned above as that would fix their wagons.
Billionaires aren’t real people anyways so there’s no loss really.
I’d like to see Trump go on one of these billionaire adventures, frankly.
😉
Warren,
Unfortunately, the Titan imploded and they’re all dead.
The book FUTILITY , first published in 1898, was about The Titan Wreck. Now, even that, in an unexpected way, has come true.