Comments by "RJ Inkglider" (@beestingza) on "OceanGate Was Broke! - Titan Caused It - Employees "Spill The Beans!"" video.

The sunk cost fallacy seems to get these guys every time.
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Yeah and he didn't test it to depth properly or even use the 45˚ cross laminates for optimal strength as calculated by NASA/Boeing engineers who were initially consulted. He cut corners on critical survival elements.
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To be fair, all these entrepreneurs are narcissists, both the successful ones and the failures. Steve Jobs was a notorious narcissist and very unpleasant to work with, as is Elon Musk.
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He had some brains, but had a much larger ego than his brain could support with novel solutions.
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What?
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He's giving original testimony. Why don't you go do it if it's so easy?
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Well given that the water seals *any* hatch from opening at depth it doesn't make that much difference. They should have had some kind of emergency air hatch which could be opened from the inside.
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Their model was based on getting 5 people aboard though. They couldn't have built a sub big enough with that money.
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@SuperTurbo9001 Exactly; he ignored the engineers' design requirements on a wish and a prayer (no cross-plies at a 45˚ angle) and didn't do a proper full-depth testing protocol with the final design. Also his so-called early warning system was just smoke and mirrors because he ignored data of a hull-fracture anyway.
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I think Musk will eventually learn that colonizing Mars will be the most expensive folly ever attempted by mankind.
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I wonder if we'll ever find out how much being towed contributed to the final failure. Is surely couldn't have helped being bashed and bumped on the north Atlantic for a thousand miles each way.
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Most entrepreneurial companies are. Shit, most businesses are besides very tried and true ones.
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Yeah it seems like everyone should have read the writing on the wall and just staged an intervention and say "we're walking away".
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@scaredcrower Wasn't it because they were in international waters?
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There are a lot of similarities to the Theranos scam, but he did actually get some people to the Titanic (though they didn't know their lives were in great danger).
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@spencerkleiman5035 Insurance is a flawed but still somewhat useful system. It's not a Ponzi scheme in the strict sense of the word, but companies like United Health definitely get pretty close to that description.
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@solareclipsetimer I appreciate the video. I think it's the first of its kind. There are a million videos covering the other stuff over and over.
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As far as I know the state of the Titanic is very poor anyway. It's a giant pile of rusting iron at this point with very little to see.
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Yeah he wanted to be the next Elon Musk or Steve Jobs and didn't really care about the details so much.
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I do think he had a death wish by the end.
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I don't know if greed was a big part of it. I guess he wanted to be the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk, but he probably figured out pretty quickly he'd never be ultra rich. Most of it sounds like ego.
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@samsonsoturian6013 Rush thought he was going to be the next Elon Musk. He definitely wanted to be rich.
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Thanks for mentioning a new show for me to check out. It sounds hilarious.
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@solareclipsetimer I don't think it's odd at all. I've seen so many entrepreneurs hang on to bad ideas well beyond their use-by date. Entrepreneurs are often narcissists- you need a gigantic ego to take on that kind of risk in the first place.
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@chillphil967 Yeah his lack of a proper testing protocol just blows my mind. He acted like there weren't lives at stake and rationalized it with waivers everyone had to sign.
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Exploratory deep water subs with accepted designs are the safest in the world. 0 deaths in 60-70 years or something.
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@funnygrunt_o7 I'm told the optics of their window were good so I'm sure it was cool to be a few feet away from the Titanic, but you're right; most of the time they are looking at the cameras on a screen.
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Ponzi inverted pyramid.
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@mipmipmipmipmip-v5x It's been pretty good for SpaceX so far. They used that approach to great success despite coming pretty close to bankruptcy at one point.
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I don't think there are any traditional designs that would allow 5 people aboard. They would be too heavy to be maneuverable.
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@drewlop He ignored fundamental engineering practices and made up fancy sounding nonsense to assuage uninformed investors. He didn't do adequate testing which is absolutely required in composites design and manufacturing. Nothing about that says intelligence.
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I don't think all your assumptions are correct; each dive seem to present new obstacles and problems because they cut so many corners on the R&D, and they had a very short season to work with.
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@ Irrelevant. We were talking about his motives.
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@samsonsoturian6013 Irrelevant.
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