I’m noticing a LOT of Hyundai/Kia in these comments, so let me pile on:

For me, it’s gotta be the Mazda3. Not only does it look really great on the outside, the interior looks like it punches above it’s price with nice materials, tech, and buttons (glorious buttons!). Plus, you can get one pretty well equipped for under $25k, and, from what I understand, the drive is a good blend of…

Volvo V60 - one of the few cars that catches my eye when out and about. Refreshing in a sea of bland crossovers.

Doubtful he’ll ever face consequences. His investors have gotten what they want, which is wrestling one of the largest social media platforms into private control, where they can tell Musk what to censor and when, and he’ll happily do it, no problem.

Bad car with a bad tie-in to a bad movie.  This thing is even lamer than a normal one.  Drop a zero off the price and you’d be closer to reality.

There are plenty of good reasons to retrieve these pieces.

So they found the end caps, but the “glass” is missing from the viewing port on one of them. It was only rated to 1500 meters. If it failed, the bodies could have gotten water hammered into the other end cap, with bone fragments possibly now being embedded in the remaining structure. All the soft bits got pulped.

Musk is not a visionary. He’s a guy with a lot of Daddy Slavebucks’ money. He didn’t invent PayPal, or Tesla. 

Length doesn’t factor into the maximum stress that a pressure vessel can handle. Diameter and wall thickness matters. Stress is proportional to diameter and inversely proportional to thickness.

And yet the bell end in charge of this project was the thick one.

500 people died this week when their boat sank off Greece, not millionaires. There was less grief and sympathy for them, who boarded a dangerous ship for important reasons.

At least if the sub imploded they’d be killed so quickly they’d be dead before even their brains had time to register what was happening. They’d be instant chunky marinara sauce

“Yeah, no shit.”

They need to move the company to Texas where they can make the hull out of recycled milk bottles and rely on the blessed prayers of the Osteen Megachurch for its primary strength!

Titan has a composite carbon fiber and titanium hull. I don’t know why the titanium part is left out on many reports.

The myth that Titanic’s builders and White Star thought the ship was unsinkable took off after it was lost. Creating that level of hubris sold newspapers. The Olympics were very safe by the standards of their day, but Captain Smith’s recklessness in trying to plow through a known ice field at flank speed ultimately…

I have no idea why you wouldn’t do the same on a submersible hull that I think is very roughly the same size.

The story of the Titanic is often portrayed as being a parable of Man’s hubris and how they arrogantly declared that the ship was unsinkable doomed it.

File this one under “profit motivates the private sector to deliver better and cheaper results than the public sector”