Billionaire among the missing as tourist submersible exploring Titanic wreck disappears (www.smh.com.au)

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[-] Solumbran@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

If only these people didn't have so much money to waste, they'd be safe. Karma?

[-] hikarulsi@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that's the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 5 points 2 years ago

This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

He might fund people who are though (...though I wish we didn't have a system that would need that...)

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 3 points 2 years ago

Well anyone 'could' fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.

[-] RedMarsRepublic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What 'scientific research' is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That's an obvious smokeshow.

[-] ch00f@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.

[-] Jurbl@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.

Also, billionaires should not exist.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago

I'm only following to make sure he's really dead. The world could use less billionaires

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Do you want my billionaire? I thought it would be a novelty, to show off to my friends, like a houseplant, but it turns out, its kind of just a piece of shit.

[-] quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

The world isn't going to get his money. Things aren't suddenly become fair in the world because a billionaire died.

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

Clearly. One less dragon hoarding untold wealth though

[-] Gatsby@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

[-] 133arc585@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Can you explain how this counts as news, @hikarulsi@lemmy.world?

This is massively insulting to the rest of the people onboard as well, who are not mentioned in the article from what I saw.

[-] RedMarsRepublic@vlemmy.net 4 points 2 years ago

Billionaires dying is news in my book!

[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"There's not enough content!"

"Wtf is this useless content?!"

I get it's not super interesting, but here we are talking about the worlds circumstances that caused such fkn stupid thing to happen. And how this even makes headlines is sort of primed for political discussion etc.

Its what you make it.