Titanic firm submersible missing.

Platapus · 07-04-23, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...ting-to-happen

A most interesting article.

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Rush eventually decided that he would not attempt to have the Titanic-bound vehicle classed by a marine-certification agency such as DNV. He had no interest in welcoming into the project an external evaluator who would, as he saw it, “need to first be educated before being qualified to ‘validate’ any innovations.”

Yeah. I think that is what is called in the business as "poor judgement" . These inspectors are too stupid to recognize Rush's super genius.

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Rush replied four days later, saying that he had “grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market.” He understood that his approach “flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation,” he wrote. “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.”

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If you’re not breaking things, you’re not innovating,” Rush said, at the GeekWire Summit last fall. “If you’re operating within a known environment, as most submersible manufacturers do—they don’t break things. To me, the more stuff you’ve broken, the more innovative you’ve been.”

I am just sorry that innocent people had to die because of his hubris and ego.

requiescat in pace

Torvald Von Mansee · 07-07-23, 09:57 AM

I thought that was pretty interesting, if true.

Catfish · 07-07-23, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

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I thought that was pretty interesting, if true.

It is, thanks for posting.

em2nought · 07-07-23, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

I thought that was pretty interesting, if true.

Doesn't "sound" fun.

Platapus · 07-09-23, 12:18 PM

More scary Rush quotes

He thought that the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993, "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation."

June 2019

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innov...nic-180972179/

"needlessly prioritized passenger safety"

Now that's a phrase we don't normally hear.

Aktungbby · 07-09-23, 04:32 PM

< one wonders what the world speed record for lefty-lucying 17 bolts actually is!!??

<BOTTOM LINE: the the corporeal zip to zap at 2233 degrees F. was a millisecond...

em2nought · 07-09-23, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

one wonders what the world speed record for lefty-lucying 17 bolts actually is!!??

I wonder if Rush got his torque wrench from Harbor Freight?

ET2SN · 07-09-23, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by em2nought

I wonder if Rush got his common sense from Harbor Freight?

Aktungbby · 07-10-23, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by em2nought

I wonder if Rush got his torque wrench from Harbor Freight?

AHEM! torque my arse!

Jimbuna · 07-10-23, 06:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

< one wonders what the world speed record for lefty-lucying 17 bolts actually is!!??

<BOTTOM LINE: the the corporeal zip to zap at 2233 degrees F. was a millisecond...

I'm counting 16

Aktungbby · 07-10-23, 09:35 AM

made ya look!

...seriously, math was never my strong suit; & I counted them "(VINCENT)twice" jus' 2 B sure!!

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,437 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	More scary Rush quotes He thought that the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993, "needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation." June 2019 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innov...nic-180972179/ "needlessly prioritized passenger safety" Now that's a phrase we don't normally hear. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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