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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by marvin on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @05:53PM (#18711365)
Again, Musk's reaction to being told to shove the sub up his ass by this guy was over-the-top. I am _obviously_ not defending unfounded accusations of paedophilia.

But one of the two lead British divers did tell SpaceX in an e-mail to keep working on the sub, in case other plans to safely extract the youngest kid failed. There is an image of this e-mail interaction somewhere. So one of the world's most experienced cave divers had indeed given the team the thumbs-up; the guy telling Musk to shove the machine up his ass was thankfully not representing the rescue leadership.

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Re:SpaceX Is Raising $500M at a $30.5B Valuation by nradov on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:44PM (#18712014)
There was apparently some sort of misunderstanding at the time. It would have been completely impossible for any sort of rigid submarine to fit through the cave restrictions. It was a total waste of effort.
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