We need to get a carbon fiber sub full of billionaires down there to investigate pronto!
Can it be poorly built with a disregard for safety?
Oh boy, can it!
That’s deeper than the Titanic! 12,500 vs 16,000 feet.
Can we send Jeffrey Bezos or Elon Musk down in a submarine to confirm the find?
Probably need 3 to man the sub. May as well send both and everyone agrees on the third. Dont even need to name him.
Both Koch bros. get to fight over the xbox controller on live stream.
Good news, one died quite awhile ago. There’s a comedy show called Upload made by the office creator that parodies his death to hilarious effect with some supporting characters.
I always forget if it was Charles or David who died, but honestly who fucking cares. They’re just knockoff Palpatine A and B to me.
Yeah, that was my attempt at funny: one mummy, one corpse, fighting over the controller while the other fuckos watch and they all dive deeper into the crushing depths. 🤗🥰
Thought we couldn’t dump raw sewage in the ocean
That is not a problem for the wealthy, they know what is best because they are so smart. They have the be brilliant because they have that much money.
In a sub designed specifically for them by their own employees, knowing that Bezos and Musk will be the only individuals to ever stress test the vessel? I’m sure that would go swimmingly. 😁
I worry they’ll get their dreams crushed.
Swimmingly, indeed.
These comments are drowning in puns.
Controlled by a Nintendo switch controller with stick drift
Fingers crossed it’s made of carbon fiber.
If Elon designs it, will be made out of stainless steel that rusts in seawater
Second hand, “vintage” carbon fiber.
Everyone knows old CF has that resonate frequency that just sounds better than modern digital CF designs.
Death by hipsterism.
is she ok
Na she’s in the Delta quadrant.
I am here for that comment, thanks!
Does that mean she’s not coming on then?
Correct, Amelia’s not coming on anything.
They’ve “found” her plane several times. I remember 5 years ago it was found near Papua New Guinea. Before that, people found a fragment and bones on an atoll. Before that, people claimed she was pictured with Noonan in some Japanese photos.
I remember when they found it in the Delta Quadrant.
Actually they didn’t find the plane. Just a rusty old truck.
I remember when they found it in my alphabet soup!
I remenber when they found it in my jean’s pocket
Holy shit! I hope she’s OK.
I’m copying my comment from the other thread:
I listened to an interview with the owner of the company on the radio this morning. He’s a commercial real estate investor who sold everything near the start of the pandemic (smart). He then decided to form an ocean exploration company to search for things like lost planes and ships and such. He chose this as his very first search because he was curious, but also because he wanted to generate publicity for his company. They set up a 90-day search mission and were filming it for a documentary. And they found the object on literally the very last day of the search. They say it could be the plane, but that it could also just be a group of rocks in the shape of a plane. He’s already gotten one [person? company?] to hire him to look for another lost item underwater and had other inquiries.
Honestly? I don’t think it’s the plane, just a guy drumming up publicity for his new business, especially since it’s in a field that he’s not established in. They’re going to go back and either not be able to find that image again, or it’ll turn out to be a bunch of rocks. Possibly even a bunch of rocks they spotted earlier and came back to in the last day with the idea of “eh, close enough” for publicity purposes. As for the image? Remember this?
One of the reasons my ex hated me is because I was skeptical about everything.
But in today’s modern age, everyone’s a grifter and I have yet to see video or photos of something clearly a ghost or ET.
Amelia Earharts wreck has been sought for so long, and has had many false positives. Since there is the smallest wiff of a grift here, I think we can safely say, yeah I’ll believe when it’s recovered.
My ex hated that about me too. She absolutely despised it. When we got together I thought she was like that too, but she was mirroring my attitudes about things.
By the end she was saying “law of attraction” and reading tarot cards.
It’s magic stones and government coverups here >.<
A new journey on the oceangate brochure
I was holding out hope for the Delta quadrant.
Who was the best ‘person from the 20th century frozen and come back to life on a Federation starship,’ Amelia Earhart, Khan or that country singer dude from the TOS episode where they also unfroze the asshole businessman that found out he was in a post-scarcity society?
I’d say the country singer dude. He was pretty chill.
It does raise a ton of questions, though. If 24th-century medical science can easily revive a person who’d been frozen with primitive 20th-century cryonics, why did they ever “give up” on people dying of things in sickbay? Stick them in the freezer and ship them to a better facility on a starbase. Having emergency freezers in shuttles or escape pods would also make sense.
That’s nothing. It’s established that the transporter can keep you alive indefinitely in the pattern buffer, make an exact copy of you and turn you back into a child.
The transporter is a death machine. They established that in the episode with the two Rikers created by some interaction between the transporter and the field around the planet, leaving one stranded. Normally it kills you and creates a duplicate. You’re actually dead while your doppelganger takes your place.
Goddammit. Seriously?! That is extra fucked up.
Thanks a lot. Now I’m scared of transporters. Only shuttles for me from now on.
Not enough people recognize the transporter is an immortality engine. Thank you for being this important point to light. It would actually solve the Lower Decks question if how do the officers come back to life instead of the black mountain and screaming koala.
Only the bridge crew gets immortality.
This is almost canon thanks to Lower Decks where Lt. Shaxs died heroically in one episode and then a few episodes later was back at his post, with one lower-ranking crewman explaining it to the other with a simple “he’s bridge crew” and a shrug.
That’s why I said it. :)
Don’t know about TOS, but TNG did country singer, asshole businessman, and woman. It was still the wacky seasons so it had that feel.
Whoops. Meant TNG.
Every time I re-watch that episode all I wanna do is hang out with the country dude. Like, imagine a farmer from the 1820s who’s somehow still alive and all they wanna do is play guitar and sing folk songs. I’d be that person’s best damn friend.
I watched a documentary on Amelia recently and her sister was like (paraphrasing) “Amelia would have been so mad they’ve wasted this much money looking for her body, pilots died all the time back then.”
One thing I’d forgotten was that she had another person with her during that last flight—her navigator
That poor Fred Noonan is the most forgotten man in history
I bet I could beat that.
I literally had no idea you even existed until you posted. So you have some tough competition. I don’t believe in you!
The fact that you know his name tells me he’s not.
Definitely looks like AN airplane, whether or not it’s THE airplane, I guess we’ll find out in a few years.
Hope they send a drone down first.
Nah let’s send another billionaire.
Elon Musk, if you happen to read this, I believe you’re the only one that can go down there. You’re so brave and amazing, nobody else could handle such pressures.
I’d bet you could even go down there alone and do excellent work. We all believe in you. Go. Seriously, do it.
Agreed! What we find down there could save humanity, and, honestly, no one else is really brave enough or smart enough to do it.
We need to send at least two. You can’t just trust the words of one billionaire. We should probably send at least 3 just to be on the safe side.
Always send a drone first, D-class second, MTF third, and lastly a second MTF to rescue the first MTF.
This MTF specializes in being rescued by a subsequent, cooler MTF lol
4876.8 Meters or 4.8km
Didn’t they find parts from an Electra in the surf on the edge of a South Pacific atoll several years ago, with no other Electra ever reported lost in the area, and signs of decades old brief human habitation on the island?
That’s only about 25% deeper than the Titanic.
I can’t wait for more billionaires to fuck around with the ocean and find out.They should convert a Boeing fuselage to a submarine.
Might be a good sector for Boeing to go into. Clearly the whole concept of up isn’t working out for them, maybe the other direction would be better.
Tony Romeo, a pilot and former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, told the Wall Street Journal that he funded the $11 million search by selling off his commercial real estate properties.
Well, it’s as good a time to sell off commercial real estate as any. I can’t help but wonder if the search actually cost as much as his investment cash-out, or if this is just a smokescreen to cash out without getting in the news for cashing out.
Do people generally need a smoke screen when they sell their (assumedly) legitimate investments for profit…?
How would funding a very public search be used as a method for staying out of the news?
I think the implication is the appearance of doing it for a good reason, rather than the timing implying that they want to pull out right now to get theirs at the expense of anyone still left in.
The stock market doesn’t create money from nothing, it’s people with good timing taking money from people with bad timing. When someone cashes out, it slightly hurts all other holders and the company itself. The bigger the cash out, the more it hits the rest. A big enough cash out can also trigger more people to do the same.
Basically, getting rich on the stock market, just like almost every other way of getting rich, comes at the expense of other people. It’s just a bit easier to handle since you’ll likely never meet or even hear about the people you hurt. So it’s easier for people to stomache, or pretend it isn’t their problem.
The stock market doesn’t create money from nothing
The derivatives market is valued around 1,000,000,000,000,000 USD, around ten times the world’s GDP. Where’d that come from then?
Where indeed would that money come from. It hasn’t come from anywhere yet.
If someone were to try to pull that money out, it would certainly have to come from somewhere. And my bet is it’ll be the same as the rest of the stock market, it’ll come a little bit from each other person that didn’t pull out yet.
If anything it just sounds like that is a bubble that pretty much has to burst at some point and really fuck over the vast majority of people participating if it literally can’t possibly be realized. I would stay away from anything that has bloated to a theoretical value that is beyond possible.
Can they just fine the plan so bad sci-fi writers can stop doing “Akshaully she was transported to the future and had sex with Jack Harkness and then she met Janeway!111”
Sorry “Over-the-top Sci-Fi answer for mundane mystery” is just… cringe bro
