• underisk [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Being instantly crushed to death by water pressure after paying $250k and signing a waiver to load myself into a makeshift submarine built well below safety standards is not exactly the most nightmarish death I can imagine.

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Yeah I would rather be crushed instantly than go through the alternative

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      There's a chance they are still freezing to death down there, getting really sleepy by now

      • Rom [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The news has been reporting banging sounds being heard every 30 minutes or so. So it sounds like they're still alive and stuck down there, in a dark, cramped metal can, victims of their own hubris, unable to move, too deep for rescue, contemplating their impending deaths from asphyxiation when their air runs out less than 24 hours from now.

        I'd almost feel bad for them if they hadn't brought this on entirely on their own lmao.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          I don't buy the noises thing. If you're gonna make banging noises you'd do it in a pattern or tune that is very obviously human. Shit makes a lot of banging under the sea, rocks, things crashing into the side of the titanic from current. Without a noise having a pattern like SOS in morse code or a the typical jaunty door knock tune I call bullshit on these sounds being human.

          • Rom [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah now that you mention it I do think it's more likely that the news media is reporting on the underwater banging sounds just to pretend like they're not dead and milk this news event for as long as they can. Still, it's nice to have that ray of hope that at least some billionaires are experiencing a fraction of the prolonged suffering they inflict on poor people, rather than just an instant, agonizing death.

        • RNAi [he/him]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          I read that the last noises where heard on Monday

        • Retrosound [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I doubt the banging thing. For one, they're REALLY deep. For another, you can communicate in Morse code with banging.