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It makes me have questions since part of the budget rearrangement was to focus on a design to avoid hiring a ship, to create a platform to launch the submersible, only to ironically return back to leasing ships. Why didn’t part of the investment is to just buy a ship, have that ship take on extra errands to help pay for it as well as bring in some revenue for Oceangate on the side, so that they weren’t throwing more money down the drain and became fixated on it? They could have had one or two ships, and the times they were not in operation for the deep dives, they could have taken on side jobs.
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For someone that has a more fascination with Titanic cause of her history, I’m honestly a little peeved at the notion of this site being used as a tourist attraction. Have zero problem with exploring to study the site or at least recover artifacts to keep the stories of these passengers alive for generations to remember there were people on that ship that had their own stories that’d we would likely never know of. It just screams hubris not just cause of the dangers but this looks like it’s taunting and lack of respecting this in the end is a gravesite. Hubris at play again. Naming the submersible Titan of all things should have been that slap in the face reality how this was treated as a gimmick and not the respect Titanic and her passengers deserved. Very little care or consideration of the big picture.
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He reads off as a certain type of nepo who has very little skills and qualities to actually help him and society. In some ways this just reads off as a project to look like a valuable member of society. Some people who are nepos are able to learn how to operate and manage the resources they have to improve their investments, however there’s a good number that want to avoid the work yet live comfortably with the lifestyles they grew up with. Rush seems like the latter to me.
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It also makes me wonder if the pressure of society is stagnant at some circumstances. I say this not to have sympathy or animosity towards Rush, but looking at the big picture. The reasoning brings this up is because historically the US has achieve many great and vast achievements, especially innovation. It is the world’s hub for technology and engineering, a desire to improve. Part of this hub is created by the right environment of resources, productive and efficient people, encouragement of critical thinking and creativity, and a chance to recover. The latter is my concern, as over the years it seems like while there are some breakthroughs, in the last 20 years or so, some technology doesn’t have a drastic breakthrough but an upgrade. This leads me to wonder that the economic risks to fail has impacted the technology industry not have a way for innovators to have that chance to swallow their pride and accept failure when something doesn’t work. I think failure is a key component to a lot of the discoveries this country has contributed to the world, there are lessons that are used to achieve a different project, but there has to be ways for these people to know they have that chance to restart. The understanding of they restarted, they are at least further in their projects as they gained knowledge from their past work. It makes me wonder if Rush put himself to accept the risks cause he didn’t see that chance to start again. The issue with his philosophy for me is that he gloated and taunted the idea of taking risks to gain new heights, but he seems like someone who had serious miscalculation issues of how to operate the whole thing that it got over his head, that the risks became a ‘do or die’ scenario that instead using critical thinking skills to come up with solutions (that probably would have helped Oceangate to not get into that mess) he resorted to not take risks but become reckless. I can’t say he was at a point he was on suicide mode and was playing Russian roulette, what we can observe he had pride issues to not listen to the facts, especially the criticism of the results were not matching up with his demands. That maybe his issues started from closer to step one and that would result in scrapping the whole project versus if the issues were something like step 10 that perhaps had a chance to fix, it’s harder to fix something that requires addressing the issues of the first step: the design and what materials were used in this case. While deep diving is a dangerous operation, it is surprisingly one of the safer operations seeing as ironically there is no regulations involved. Most of the deep dive communities are avid loving of discovering the deep ocean waters, it’s a small but close community that had each other’s backs. The fact it took now after over a hundred years of subs exploring our oceans to face a self sabotaged disaster is remarked when what this community of deep divers must keep in mind of the dangers of it. While everyone is giving Boeing a hard time with their horribly run operation and businesses that has backfired, people would be very surprised at how many air flights go wrong since we were able to fly, just by mechanics or human caused factors. It takes an awareness to understand what capabilities a person actually has, and just how unmerciful Mother Nature truly is, no matter how much we think we can defy the odds. That’s why it takes baby steps to make certain achievements, and the chance to learn from failures might seem like a step back, but it can also be a step forward gaining that experience and knowledge to get closer to that goal. There has to be irony in how Rush disregarded the risks, but couldn’t cope with the failure as a result.
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I wonder he didn’t venture in space cause there were more qualified people in that industry that made him feel small. He seems to be the type with very abstract ideas, which could be a good attribute if one has the mindset to understand the basics. Seeing as he couldn’t handle basic criticism that was to actually help Oceangate, those abstract ideas were not going to be successful. He couldn’t even calculate how to run to not rely on selling these seats for an overpriced profit to create revenue. In the end this whole project became a drain on a business level that money would his main priority, everything else important (that likely could have fixed some of the problems) became second.
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