• GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    A disproportionate number of the space-race era astronauts came from Ohio. Something about that place just makes people want to risk everything to go somewhere else, I guess.

  • Rom [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    We should make billionaires dying at the bottom of the ocean an annual thing.

    • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Could be a global affair

      Pine-Boxing Day (Commonwealth countries)

      In-The-Deep-Endce Day (Mostly the USA even though a lot of countries have independence days)

      Sad-turnalia (Pagans)

      Hubristmas and Seaster (Christian world)

      Pall(bearer)entine's Day (Worldwide, I guess)

      Sinkran (Thailand)

      Holi Diver (India)

      Corpse-us Cristi

      Sinko de Mayo (Mexico)

    • Comp4 [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      We could make a national holiday out of it thinkin-lenin

  • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    dont worry nerds instead of this one steering-device i heard they will be using a switch controler this time

    • Rom [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      The tragedy was the Titanic sinking in 1912 and the farce was the Titan imploding last year

    • Black_Mald_Futures [any]
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      6 months ago

      There was that teenager on board though who while probably set to grow up to be a piece of shit billionaire was still just a kid and also didn't want to be there :/

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    Wasn’t the industry already safe prior to the implosion? Didn’t James Cameron go down to the titanic wreck like 50 times before cellphones existed?

  • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Going please-save-me as my vanity project sub suddenly stops moving and starts to slowly sink at 30,000 leagues below sea level while I look through the windows at the wreckage of the last sub I sent down here

    • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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      6 months ago

      30,000 leagues below sea level

      actually "leagues" is a measurement of distance travelled and not depth.

      30,000 leagues if used as a measurement for depth would be ~90,000 miles which would put you somewhere in space on the other side of the earth, which I would also be fine with but I couldn't help but engage in little a pedantry as a treat.

      • Leon_Frotsky [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        it was a reference to the book of the same name but i got the number of leagues wrong by mistake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Seas