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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by eropple on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @08:52PM (#36412919)
The iteration has already been done. Safety rules exist because somebody has died and had it written in their blood. Failure to read the literature gets people killed.

This is reckless and it is stupid and excusemaking for it has no moral grounds.

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by ekianjo on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:14AM (#36418040)
> The iteration has already been done.

Excuse me, there are several companies operating submarines that visit the Titanic with tourists?

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Re:Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepa... by eropple on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @09:51AM (#36418450)
This is a response that, if made not in jest, is a signal of mendacity.

Submersibles visited the Challenger Deep in the 1960s. We know how to build them, we know how to build them effectively, and we know many of the ways not to build them. "But we added tourists!" is not a meaningful factor here unless what you meant-but-wouldn't-say is "but we value engineered it!" in which case: yes, exactly, that's what safety rules are designed to put guardrails around.

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