On one hand, 'if it ain't broke' etc.
On the other, 'wait, what?'.
The entire operation manages to somehow feel both incredibly sophisticated (it's not easy to get a sub to that depth) and simultaneously incredibly stupid.
On the other, 'wait, what?'.
The entire operation manages to somehow feel both incredibly sophisticated (it's not easy to get a sub to that depth) and simultaneously incredibly stupid.
I am smart enough to know that I'm too dumb and ill-equipped to make a safe tourism business out of a homebrewed submarine.
These people are smarter than me, but too stupid to know that they aren't smart enough to make a safe tourism business out of a homebrewed submarine.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/2020...
What could possibly lead you to presume that? Do you feel in a better position to make that call than all the engineers who actually work on that task at a professional level?
Funny enough, I've also seen "it doesn't even have a toilet" repeated around HN in the last couple days.
IIRC an earlier design or planned design used cameras only.
Edit: Wow, they were actually sued by a whistleblower over the pressure rating for the window on an earlier design! https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-face...