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Post by sputnik on Jun 23, 2023 16:19:02 GMT
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Post by no1novice on Jun 23, 2023 16:26:32 GMT
Better that than being one of the 100 children trapped below decks eh?  |
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Post by Sarzy on Jun 23, 2023 17:27:58 GMT
I find things like this interesting but eerie at the same time. How one second you can be there and the next there's basically nothing left! |
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Post by sputnik on Jun 23, 2023 17:32:43 GMT
^^^^
agree.
i get the level of interest around this just for the novelty alone.
i'm pissed tragedies like the greek migrant boat sinking don't get the attention they deserve but i also get the fascination with finding out what happened to this very unique expedition.
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Post by trixie on Jun 23, 2023 18:01:32 GMT
Me too. It was like watching the Space Shuttle Challenger explode about a minute after takeoff. There was no doubt that anyone could survive, much less be recovered.
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Post by tulip on Jun 23, 2023 18:19:19 GMT
The submersible had made this voyage many times. I wonder if it was wear and tear?
It was a small mercy that they were gone so quickly. The people on the migrant boat were not so lucky. Thinking of all those people drowning makes me sick. The sheer panic they must have felt gives me anxiety just thinking about it.
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Post by no1novice on Jun 23, 2023 18:57:53 GMT
The submersible had made this voyage many times. I wonder if it was wear and tear? It was a small mercy that they were gone so quickly. The people on the migrant boat were not so lucky. Thinking of all those people drowning makes me sick. The sheer panic they must have felt gives me anxiety just thinking about it. There is a whole debate about if the sinking boat was offered assistance and if they rejected it. The ratio of boats/sky-surveillence looking for the sub & the boats that did/not help the migrants is staggering. Unfortunately it's a trend (migrants in totally unsuitable sailing equipment & getting into "difficulty") and I get that it is comparing apples & oranges but..... |
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Post by greysfang on Jun 23, 2023 19:05:47 GMT
Well now that we've spent millions searching for billionaires can we now get to finding the 5,000 MMIW?
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Post by kittylady on Jun 23, 2023 19:08:20 GMT
None less than Dan Wooton himself. Is he a Johnsonite because this all smacks of a "rich person is more valuable than a poor person" when the laws of physics dgaf. Brits are worried about paying for their homes while this idiot uses "communist" as an insult when someone points out that millionaires are not taxed fairly. Wootton is what would happen if Piss Morgan and Milo Yiannopoulos had a test tube baby. The only side he's on is his own and he's latched on to the fat, juicy vein of the right wing media despite the fact that, as a gay man who wasn't born in Britain, he'd be among the first that the Brexit Bigots and and Britain First morons would toss on the bonfire if they got everything their way. Edit to add: @greysfang I wholeheartedly agree. Just the other day I was reading about Mika Westwolf who was hit by a car while walking home and left to die. The last I heard, the driver - a woman called Sunny White who thought it a good idea to name her children Aryan and Nation - hadn't even been charged. |
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Post by dilligaf on Jun 23, 2023 20:02:30 GMT
To me this is as satisfying as hearing about some millionaire sport hunter being eaten by the lion he was hunting. And in expressing my opinion via comments sections all over the internet, I have been diagnosed for free as a heartless sociopath (is there any other kind?). The memes are keeping my soul alive right now.
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Post by dolem on Jun 23, 2023 20:31:15 GMT
The whole thing just seems so wholly avoidable and unnecessary. Why not spend that money on helping people rather than taking a stupid trip to a crazy dangerous location? I feel the same way about Everest. Multiple stories this year of sherpas literally saving people by carrying them out of the death zone. So incredibly risky.
I'm only glad that it imploded in the sense that they didn't suffer. Imagining them slowing running out of air in a dark tin can is pretty horrific.
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Post by HWBL on Jun 23, 2023 21:04:14 GMT
To me this is as satisfying as hearing about some millionaire sport hunter being eaten by the lion he was hunting. And in expressing my opinion via comments sections all over the internet, I have been diagnosed for free as a heartless sociopath (is there any other kind?). The memes are keeping my soul alive right now. You're probably being called jealous, too, because you did not have the means or "courage" to be so adventurous <rolling eyes big time>. |
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Post by trixie on Jun 23, 2023 21:15:47 GMT
Ha, well I'm jealous I don't have the money to spend on something so incredibly stupid, but I wouldn't spend it on something so incredibly stupid.
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Post by constancespry on Jun 23, 2023 21:59:52 GMT
To me this is as satisfying as hearing about some millionaire sport hunter being eaten by the lion he was hunting. And in expressing my opinion via comments sections all over the internet, I have been diagnosed for free as a heartless sociopath (is there any other kind?). The memes are keeping my soul alive right now. Have to disagree, there’s NOTHING as satisfying as that! Well, except drunk hunters shooting each other instead of their prey. |
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Post by Sarzy on Jun 23, 2023 22:14:40 GMT
Wow. They weren't harming anyone by doing this dive but themselves. Stupid but not deserving of death. Trophy hunters however are vile and I don't feel bad for them at all if the animals kill them first.
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