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2024-05-28 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Billionaire to Take $20 Million Sub to Titanic, Prove Industry Safe After OceanGate Implosion

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-28 05:40|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ] Top

"I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way," Connor said.

Visit Duck, the ride is considerably cheaper and you won't have to eat crab cakes from a tube.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-28 05:47|| 2024-05-28 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 What's the price for a round trip ticket?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-28 06:39|| 2024-05-28 06:39|| Front Page Top

#3 America's super-wealthy are still risking their lives on deep sea...

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-28 06:48|| 2024-05-28 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Billion-dollar mission to explore 'holy grail of shipwrecks' at bottom of the Caribbean

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-28 07:01|| 2024-05-28 07:01|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ "If you didn't put it there, don't fok with it."

- Old IED/EOD tip. Author unknown.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-28 07:07|| 2024-05-28 07:07|| Front Page Top

#6 See, I loved the whole Oceangate thing. I love those events where we can all get together and have a good laugh at hubris. An oh-so-smart billionaire goes way beyond his area of expertise and gets himself (and his son) killed in a poorly made vehicle whose construction he supervised personally.

Posted by Cromonter Spawn of the Faeries8107 2024-05-28 07:52|| 2024-05-28 07:52|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^^ I'm trying to find a corollary with another rich bitch asshole, Bill Gates who is evidently a world-class virologist, medical doctor, and climatologist.

Oh, world-class eugenicist, too.

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-05-28 08:52|| 2024-05-28 08:52|| Front Page Top

#8 "Hold my beer and watch this."

Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-05-28 13:11|| 2024-05-28 13:11|| Front Page Top

#9 To the bottom of the ocean or into space. It's start. Getting them to pay for it is the trick.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-28 13:25|| 2024-05-28 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Is it okay to chortle if this one goes squeek crack thump too?

Posted by alanc 2024-05-28 18:05|| 2024-05-28 18:05|| Front Page Top

#11 Submersible hovers over spotlit debris field. Excited indistinct voices. Claw gently grasps jar of mustard, places it upon silver salver. On surface, celebration, popping of champagne corks. Dramatization. Do not attempt.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-05-28 19:18|| 2024-05-28 19:18|| Front Page Top

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