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Titan sub: crew have died after catastrophic loss of pressure chamber, US Coast Guard confirms (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] Lowbird@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Paying customers fundamentally can't become submersible experts overnight, even if they were inclined to do as much research as possible. Our modern society relies on trusting that experts know what they're talking about, and that they are involved where they should be in the first place, and often assuming that "they wouldn't be allowed to do this if it wasn't safe, surely".

[-] halvdan@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, we're sorta inclined to believe in what an authority tells us and it's not easy to tell when we're being fed tasty looking bullshit. Especially when we want it to be true.

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