Yah man, my mom is 70 and my grandma is 96. Surviving off spite and paranoia, but surviving nonetheless.

Could well be much older than that. Hardly anyone of that generation in my family died before age 90, and a several made it over 100. They all had first kids in their late teens. My great-grand aunt who made it to 105 out-lived ALL of her kids, sadly. And she lived independently in her own house until she was *102*.…

It was crazy, but also not surprising, that Rush was relaying directions to the diver via the tourists. Given the number of times they had comms issues in the water, you would think they would have come up with some sort of formal procedure for when this happened again. I also can’t believe he was asking the tourists…

I know that hindsight is 20/20 and all that, but just hearing Rush talk the way he did about the problems the sub was experiencing would have been enough for me to nope right out of there. It all seemed so casual for an outfit that wanted to take inexperienced tourists into the most inhospitable reaches of the planet:…

Your pilot also needs to somehow use the xbox controller with one hand, since he needs to stabilize him self with the other so he doesn’t crash into the other passengers. Jesus, he’s just an awful engineer IMO.

I think it’s a very important conversation to have; highlighting the gradual move from extreme caution, testing, and expensive risk mitigation to what we have now, basically “hope for the best, what’s the worst that can happen” engineering and production to safe a few bucks. Tesla using real-world drivers as beta…

Someone needs to work on their reading comprehension skills. Bro, TheWalrus was shading the article about the Elon-Zuck cage match. His point was that if you think Jalopnik should be writing about the Greek refugee incident, maybe direct that critique at an article that doesn’t have anything to do with transportation…

They haven’t written the release form that will stand up to demonstrable negligence on the party asking for a release.

Most people here are likely richer than 98% of humanity. Check your self-righteousness at the door, bud

I know. And, I get it. But as someone who has volunteered with alpine and backcountry Search and Rescue for years, we don’t go looking for people based on moral considerations. At the end of the day, these are lost people and we go looking for them. Period.

Objectively a Titanic tourist sub being lost in the depth of the oceans is a more interesting story because of its uniqueness and suspense from the limited oxygen supply. Unfortunately, refugee ships capsizing are fairly common occurrences, so while they still make headlines, it’s generally a far less interesting…

There’s a guy here in Texas who made a bunch of money in private equity and now spearheads a deep sea submersible research project. I want to say his sub alone cost something like $60 million to design, test and build. I saw a presentation he put on about how it was done and it’s pretty impressive. I’d LOVE to get his…

Frankly, it’s not bad training for naval forces that need to train anyway. Not a total loss.

Is R2 Supercharger Compatible?

Uh... they use a xbox controller on hundred million dollar military subs. Cause it’s easy to use...

The controller for my son’s xbox failed spontaneously.  I’d want something fail safe if the stakes were this high.

This idiot’s family tree is a telephone pole...

If your ‘livelihood’ involves enslaving other people then you deserve to be destroyed.

Better hope they never ban strawmen you fucking clown

“working on atrocities”