"Agh, the implosion of the Titan submarine happened so fast, they didn't know what hit 'em."
Yeah... that's not entirely true.
As new data becomes available, we are getting a clearer picture. The five people in that little yellow agh I mean white submarine knew they had major problems, and possibly realized they were about to die.
Here's some facts that came to light:
1. The mothership lost contact with the submarine after approximately 90 minutes into the dive. Given that all communications were lost so suddenly, led Titanic movie director James Cameron - that went down twice in another submarine to the sunken passenger ship some years ago - to say that he knew something catastrophic went wrong at that stage, and experts agree. It's accepted that the implosion happened at that stage.
2. At the time communications were lost, the Titan was just over 3400 meters deep, around 400 meters to go for the crew to see the Titanic. So close, yet so far.
3. Suddenly, at that depth, and so close to the goal, the captain - whom was also the CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush - released all the weights in an apparent desperate attempt to get the little vessel back to the surface. All communications with the vessel were lost shortly thereafter. It is not clear what exactly caused Rush to drop the weights. When the ballast weights on such a small submersible are released, it can be felt throughout the whole vessel, and all passengers would have noticed it. It was too late though, and the sub imploded anything from seconds to several minutes later.
4. The implosion itself at that depth happened five times faster than the brains of the passengers could comprehend, so it was an instantaneous death. But they certainly knew beforehand they had a major crisis looming, with everyone on board knowing they're in grave danger. Thus, they died as deeply stressed men. What would have been their last thoughts, their last words?
5. For a brief second or two, the temperature in that specific location in the ocean rose to as high as the temperature on the surface of the sun, ten thousand degrees Celsius. That's because when the air in the sub gotten compressed so fast before it escaped, the temperature of the air rose, and to that high temperature as a result of the water's pressure on the contained air in the vessel.
6. The high temperature, only to be cooled down rapidly by ice-cold water under immense pressure, turned the passengers first into quick-fried patties before converting them into blobs of a gel-like vaporous substance. Therefore, their bodies and any remains of it will never be found.
Was what they have done, to go down as tourists to a famous ship and pay a quarter of a million dollars each for the privilege, a mistake? Dumb? No, to the contrary, they are unsung modern-day heroes.
It is in mankind's nature to explore, to challenge, to climb the highest mountain, to dive the deepest, to transplant hearts, to land on the moon. All of that cost a lot of money in planning, research, materials, resources, and more. The money from wealthy people fund it.
Any such an expedition, even if it's to the North Pole or getting lost in die Andes mountain range, leads to tiny discoveries, new data, that often results in new innovations and medical breakthroughs. Many of what you will find in hospitals today, from techniques on how to combat cancer to the machines necessary for brain surgery, are the results of what daring people learned in extreme conditions.
NASA alone even crash helicopters costing tens of millions of dollars each, to see how vehicular safety can be improved. That research made your car safer. When a new glue needs to be developed to hold something in space or deep underwater together, a lot of money is forked out by the rich. And if the right solution is found after millions of dollars was spent, the investors commercialize it to get their money and a ROI back, giving your children lighter, stronger shoes in their attempts to break a school athletics record.
Every passenger on such a dangerous expedition, even as tourist, gets a short training course, and may have to do actual scientific research while going into space or deep underwater. Small experiments too, which adds to the datasets scientists use later to broaden their understanding of a subject.
As such, the four tourists and the innovator-entrepreneur Rush contributed with each dive - even the more aborted than successful ones to the Titanic - to our knowledge of what's happening deep down in the sea. How does cameras behave at that depth? What did the cold temperatures do to equipment? Were any new fish species observed? What psychological impact did the dive in a claustrophobic space had on each passenger?
That is why the US Navy and others had spend so much money trying to rescue the Titan, because the results of what they found will help in the design of future submarines and also planes. This means, you may never get to see a nuclear submarine imploding outside your holiday house at the beach, or get to be in a plane crash in the Amazon forest. People died to make you live in a safer world.
Was Stockton Rush lax about safety, as some people fishing for a scapegoat claimed? I don't think so for one second. An email came to light in which he seemingly ridiculed safety. Yet his whole career in aviation shows that he took safety indeed seriously. His email merely says that one can take safety measures only so far, before one is back in bed where it is the safest.
The one big mistake he made, I think, is to reject experienced white experts as employees, seemingly in favor of affirmative action appointments, and also to have mainly young people as employees. Well, who doesn't like being surrounded by hot chicks in bikinis on a ship, right.
Regarding his use of a video controller to steer the Titan, many people made fun about it, with memes abound. What people seems to forget, is that video controllers are battle-tested by every 16-year-old gamer during hissy fit episodes. Many a game controller hit a wall, only to still work afterwards. The US Airforce use similar video controllers to operate drones, with those drones carrying bombs across cities.
Were the lives of the five deceased people more valuable than that of the 700 migrants whose overloaded boat sank underway to Europe around the same time? The inconvenient, politically-incorrect answer: Yes. Those wealthy people created value for society, they employed thousands of people, they helped make society better, they funded start-up companies that helped made poor people's dreams come true.
The illegal migrants, on the other hand, fled from countries screwed up by themselves, just to take their destructive religious beliefs and poverty - both material and mental - to the continent Europe, where they would have been a liability on society for years, even decades. We know it, because we are witnessing it especially since 2015.
We have all read the reports of how dramatically the number of rapes, robberies, and murders increased after black Muslim-migrants started swamping Europe. Because white women are inferior and only good to serve men, some revolting outdated book with a pedophile-prophet in it says, with children in the bodies of adults believing it.
It is a rude, but true fact of life: Some people are simply worth more to the world than others. It's all about the value you create for society, and if you ever truly grasp and embrace this, you'll become rich too.
The findings about the submarine implosion will undoubtedly lead to safer boats in future, and ironically thus save the lives of illegal migrants from Africa fleeing climate change.
By the way, the first three days of this week were the hottest days on the planet ever recorded in mankind's history, and scientists put the blame squarely on climate change, caused by human activity since the industrial revolution kicked off in the 1800s. In just the past 30 years, 80% of all fauna and flora species went extinct as a result. Some birds you saw as a child, you'll never get to see again. Bambi too, she's gone.
Climate change is busy getting worse exponentially, yet people too stupid to understand the term 'exponentially' still deny what scientists can prove. Rich people are funding research right now in attempts to find solutions before all of our homes' roofs get blown off every year by monster storms in year 2030.
But religious people opposing science that debunked their fairy books keep on voting for immoral politicians like Donald Trump, that then curb environmental laws in order to make himself and his crooked cronies wealthier from fossil fuels. Trump can afford a strong house that will withstand severe storms, you can't. Stop voting for his type of billionaire, instead, support eccentric ones like Elon Musk that tries hard to switch us all to green energy. Why bash the wrong guy, even if he says controversial things to get debates going and people thinking?
Think about the above next time, before criticizing the good rich. The majority of wealthy people are not like Trump, and actually oppose his type. It's the mentally-poor, material-poor that supports Trump, at their own expense and too stupid to realize it.
Also, as a side note, dear mean-spirited minimum-wage burger flippers: The rich took note of your mean memes about the Titan, and you can expect the NWO to turn up the heat on the economic front in the nearby future. You peasants will pay for your ignorant hatred spewed at the deceased occupants of the Titan. Contempt breeds contempt, so if you refuse to give the rich the credit they deserve, they'll refuse to give you the salary increase you deserve.
A gazillion memes were created during the drama when we still didn't know the fate of the submarine, and after the implosion became known. Below are some you may enjoy or find insightful.
Of course racism from both black and white crept in on memes, and so did religion, conspiracies, and Orcas. One can learn a lot from memes and the people that created it, and get a feel of the vibe surrounding an event, and what happened at what time in modern history. Aliens visiting our destroyed planet over 50 years will find it helpful.
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