Moderators Zico Posted June 22, 2023 Moderators Share Posted June 22, 2023 If you're a billionaire why cut corners building a submarine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal white Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 6 minutes ago, Zico said: If you're a billionaire why cut corners building a submarine They’re obviously not being taxed enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leigh white Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Still a couple of Chinese cockle pickers missing in the sea at Morecambe Bay from nearly 20 years ago, they will never be found again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevieb Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 (edited) 13 minutes ago, leigh white said: Still a couple of Chinese cockle pickers missing in the sea at Morecambe Bay from nearly 20 years ago, they will never be found again. That's literally the first thing my Mrs told my 10 year old lad when we went a few weeks back in glorious sunshine at half term... The mountains of the lakes in the distance shimmering over the bay... Glorious Britain sunshine ... The shit of Morecambe behind us and out of mind... "loads of Chinese cockle pickers died in there because the tide came in too quick" Edited June 22, 2023 by stevieb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted June 22, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2023 Price of cockles never went up though. The market always wins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Faustus Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Defo not Reggie Perrin vs Star Trek DSV or whatever it was, is it? I’m the land of 1000 conspiracies, the optimist is king Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MancWanderer Posted June 22, 2023 Share Posted June 22, 2023 Might come across as a massive unsympathetic cunt here but meh These billionaires. Can do anything they want. Anything that anyone on this earth wants to do. No worries about money. Just do it. It’s like a club. What can I do that no-one else has done? Branson with his stupid fucking balloon. Musk with his space flights. This dick going too deep into the ocean. Just fuck off. It’s not big and it’s not clever Back in the day, climbing Everest or reaching the North/South poles in a padded suit from Burtons and a nice pair of leather boots was ground breaking. It’s not now. It’s attention seeking clickbait shite Maybe it needs summat like this to say to these folk to fuck off and stop being dicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter FrancisFogarty Posted June 22, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 22, 2023 (edited) I have the same sympathy for them I'm afraid, as I have for the dicks that go A) Potholing in pumps, shorts and a tee shirt, and A) Them that go climbing mountains in pumps, shorts a tee shirt. Edited June 22, 2023 by FrancisFogarty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bolty58 Posted June 22, 2023 Members Share Posted June 22, 2023 7 hours ago, gonzo said: Im struggling to find a worse way to go. Instantaneous death. Crushed to the size of an apple in a millisecond. Far better in my view than a slow and painful suffocation. I wish I had been wrong. Most engineers in the world would have been thinking the same way I suspect. Most bathyscaphes have been spherical for as long as they have been around. Jacques Cousteau, various other ocean explorers and even Jules Verne used or alluded to spherical design for very good reasons. Blows my mind that in these days of nanny state interference in almost every walk of life that someone could operate a machine which has not undergone come sort of design analysis and certification. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crawshawbooth Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 The wreck of the Titanic is a poignant chapter in British maritime history and it is linked to Bolton If you stroll up Blackburn road from the Bay Mare there is a stone terrace of shops and on the last house is a blue plaque. It states The childhood residence pf Sir Arthur Rostron Captain of the SS Carpathia who sailed to rescue the survivors of the RMS Titanic on Monday 15th April 1912 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal white Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 2 hours ago, crawshawbooth said: The wreck of the Titanic is a poignant chapter in British maritime history and it is linked to Bolton If you stroll up Blackburn road from the Bay Mare there is a stone terrace of shops and on the last house is a blue plaque. It states The childhood residence pf Sir Arthur Rostron Captain of the SS Carpathia who sailed to rescue the survivors of the RMS Titanic on Monday 15th April 1912 Interesting story, I’ve just read up on him, seems like a bit of a legend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal white Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 The amount of hate aimed at those on the sub on social media because they’re rich is bizarre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 9 hours ago, Cheese said: Male Anglerfish are tiny compared to females. They reproduce by attaching to the female like a parasite. They hardly even have a cock to laugh off. Surely she'd be better off having a glow in the dark male attached on the end of that "rod" so he'd be trapped into permanently spending his time providing the food and just every so often bend round for a shag when she was up for it. Evolution missed a trick there; works for humans after all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, SatanGreavsie said: Surely she'd be better off having a glow in the dark male attached on the end of that "rod" so he'd be trapped into permanently spending his time providing the food and just every so often bend round for a shag when she was up for it. Evolution missed a trick there; works for humans after all. You’ve just described my wife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatanGreavsie Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 7 hours ago, bolty58 said: Instantaneous death. Crushed to the size of an apple in a millisecond. Far better in my view than a slow and painful suffocation. Well when you read about this deep sea incident Byford Dolphin - Wikipedia you realise what pressure change can do. That one was in the opposite direction - high to low pressure - but was only a 9 atmosphere difference, not 400. As you say, they couldn't have known what hit them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little whitt Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 5 hours ago, crawshawbooth said: The wreck of the Titanic is a poignant chapter in British maritime history and it is linked to Bolton If you stroll up Blackburn road from the Bay Mare there is a stone terrace of shops and on the last house is a blue plaque. It states The childhood residence pf Sir Arthur Rostron Captain of the SS Carpathia who sailed to rescue the survivors of the RMS Titanic on Monday 15th April 1912 there is a Blue Plaque in Horwich a boiler man lived there who went down with it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 5 hours ago, crawshawbooth said: The wreck of the Titanic is a poignant chapter in British maritime history and it is linked to Bolton If you stroll up Blackburn road from the Bay Mare there is a stone terrace of shops and on the last house is a blue plaque. It states The childhood residence pf Sir Arthur Rostron Captain of the SS Carpathia who sailed to rescue the survivors of the RMS Titanic on Monday 15th April 1912 I think loads of places have a link. Five mins walk fom our house there's a blue plaque for Harold Bride - the wireless operator on the Titanic. And he survived... https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/17421401.harold-bride---shortlands-boy-became-hero-titanic-disaster/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 hours ago, bolty58 said: Blows my mind that in these days of nanny state interference in almost every walk of life that someone could operate a machine which has not undergone come sort of design analysis and certification. 🙃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweep Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 11 hours ago, royal white said: They’re obviously not being taxed enough. That Ash Sarker, really is hard work to listen to whenever she crops up on the radio or the TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Tonge moor green jacket Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 10 hours ago, MancWanderer said: Might come across as a massive unsympathetic cunt here but meh These billionaires. Can do anything they want. Anything that anyone on this earth wants to do. No worries about money. Just do it. It’s like a club. What can I do that no-one else has done? Branson with his stupid fucking balloon. Musk with his space flights. This dick going too deep into the ocean. Just fuck off. It’s not big and it’s not clever Back in the day, climbing Everest or reaching the North/South poles in a padded suit from Burtons and a nice pair of leather boots was ground breaking. It’s not now. It’s attention seeking clickbait shite Maybe it needs summat like this to say to these folk to fuck off and stop being dicks There is no doubt that unnecessary corners were cut. Black box type instruments etc could all have been included. At the same time, a former partner in the business has said significant engineering and testing went into the creation of the sub. Can't understand why they wouldn't get it approved as sea worthy etc, but on the other hand, I think it is vital that those with an exploratory mind aren't totally hamstrung in their activities. NASA went to the moon in a can with less computing power than a phone, explorers discovered new continents etc. Demonising a rich person for wanting to push boundaries benefits no one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 5 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: There is no doubt that unnecessary corners were cut. Black box type instruments etc could all have been included. At the same time, a former partner in the business has said significant engineering and testing went into the creation of the sub. Can't understand why they wouldn't get it approved as sea worthy etc, but on the other hand, I think it is vital that those with an exploratory mind aren't totally hamstrung in their activities. NASA went to the moon in a can with less computing power than a phone, explorers discovered new continents etc. Demonising a rich person for wanting to push boundaries benefits no one. Don’t disagree about the exploration bit. We need folk who’ll take risks. But This was just a chance for rich folk to have a gawp at a mass grave. I’m not sure any exploring or new frontiers we’re going to be discovered from a few hours just pointing at a rusty owd ship. At least it was quick. The other option was horrific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 13 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said: There is no doubt that unnecessary corners were cut. Black box type instruments etc could all have been included. At the same time, a former partner in the business has said significant engineering and testing went into the creation of the sub. Can't understand why they wouldn't get it approved as sea worthy etc, but on the other hand, I think it is vital that those with an exploratory mind aren't totally hamstrung in their activities. NASA went to the moon in a can with less computing power than a phone, explorers discovered new continents etc. Demonising a rich person for wanting to push boundaries benefits no one. Not even comparable, given the mutli agency work and testing that went into the both the Mercury and Apollo missions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Wanderer Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 7 hours ago, royal white said: The amount of hate aimed at those on the sub on social media because they’re rich is bizarre True this, very strange Can see why folk find it unfair how much media attention this gets compared to the migrant boat deaths, but I guess the latter has just sadly become normalised. When it first started getting really bad the media were heavily reporting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 They were on about recovering the bodies earlier on the news. There won't be any. That amount of pressure will have turned them to liquid. #Here's what happens under that amount of pressure to a human body: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Cheese Posted June 23, 2023 Site Supporter Share Posted June 23, 2023 8 minutes ago, Spider said: They were on about recovering the bodies earlier on the news. There won't be any. That amount of pressure will have turned them to liquid. #Here's what happens under that amount of pressure to a human body: And that's at 10 Atmospheres of Pressure. Titan was at 400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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