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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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Y'all are super judgy about this submarine thingy looking for the titanic considering mast of you will ride a Ferris Wheel that a meth-head with three teeth set up in a grocery store parking lot in a half hour.


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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

thanks you for your service

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Good human. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Glad to know you guys are here too

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice and funny expected a bot to preform the task. Didn't expect a human.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Widen your expectations, fellow human

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The ferris wheel was QA'd to the point that even a meth-head could set it up safely.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a saying - build an idiot-proof system and they'll build a better idiot

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Also:

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

− Douglas Adams

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao it absolutely was not.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Totally agreed! However the ferris wheel was built by actual engineers not some rich guy who fired/sued his engineers into silence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

A Google News search for “carnival accident” shows that carnival rides seemingly kill or seriously injure people in the US every couple weeks.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't trust those corn field carnival rides either, those things terrify me even more than the submarine, so speak for yourself lol.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Looking at the bright side, at least in a submarine you aren’t going to feel 4000lbs of pressure in every direction coming at you at once because it’ll happen faster than your brain can register. Not like you’d feel it anyway after being reduced to the human equivalent of a gogurt

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I guarantee the three-toothed meth-head knows more about assembling and running a carnival ride than submarine dude knows about his best buy remote control.

Plus, one of them is still alive.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly the more I read about all the things wrong with that submarine, the more I think the CEO Stockton Rush deserves a Darwin Award. (Though maybe he'd be disqualified due to age or already having kids?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We don't know that your second point is true.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The meth dude didn't design and fabricate the ferris wheel though, just set it up?

[–] C_Leviathan 14 points 1 year ago

Yes and he's done it twice a week every week for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ferris wheel doesn't go 2.5 miles deep underwater though. And you can sit there and watch successful trips on the Ferris wheel before you decide to risk it.

[–] Corkyskog 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean all of the previous trips were successful by most measures...

Also plenty of people do watersports and other excursions with very sketchy tourist companies signing away stuff on all sorts of waivers. Some of these activities are not only dangerous but incredibly expensive as well.

[–] Switchy85 1 points 1 year ago

All of the previous trips didn't get everybody killed, but most weren't "successful". They had tons of issues like regular power loss and communication outages, and many of the trips never even made it to the Titanic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I didn't pay six figures for a carnival ticket.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Learn to weld and start looking at the welds on those things. You wont be riding them for long.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Us engineers know you welders suck so we put big safety factors on them. :-D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Three-toothed meth head is still alive too

[–] gonzo0815 6 points 1 year ago

The Ferris wheel has a survival chance of >0 though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ferris wheel isn't made of cardboard and has a weight limit of 30lbs

[–] _haha_oh_wow_ 2 points 1 year ago

Hey now, that's corrugated cardboard, not just any cardboard!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
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