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    Y’all are super judgy about this submarine thingy looking for the titanic considering mast of you will ride a Ferris Wheel that a meth-head with three teeth set up in a grocery store parking lot in a half hour.


    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

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    The ferris wheel was QA’d to the point that even a meth-head could set it up safely.

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        Also:

        A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

        − Douglas Adams

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        Totally agreed! However the ferris wheel was built by actual engineers not some rich guy who fired/sued his engineers into silence.

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      A Google News search for “carnival accident” shows that carnival rides seemingly kill or seriously injure people in the US every couple weeks.

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    I guarantee the three-toothed meth-head knows more about assembling and running a carnival ride than submarine dude knows about his best buy remote control.

    Plus, one of them is still alive.

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      Honestly the more I read about all the things wrong with that submarine, the more I think the CEO Stockton Rush deserves a Darwin Award. (Though maybe he’d be disqualified due to age or already having kids?)

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        His age is irrelevant as men can reproduce until death barring some medical issues. Already having kids does disqualify him though as he’s still in the gene pool.

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        Not calling you out, just adding information.

        Watch out with referencing the Darwin Award. It comes out of the tradition of Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism is the concept that natural selection/survival of the fittest should apply to humans as well, to improve the gene pool.

        The Nazis heavily embraced Social Darwinism and used it as justification to murder countless physically and mentally disabled people.

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        I thought that you needed to be out of the gene pool so including no living descendants, but that wiki page seems to say it’s debatable.

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      Looking at the bright side, at least in a submarine you aren’t going to feel 4000lbs of pressure in every direction coming at you at once because it’ll happen faster than your brain can register. Not like you’d feel it anyway after being reduced to the human equivalent of a gogurt

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    The Ferris wheel doesn’t go 2.5 miles deep underwater though. And you can sit there and watch successful trips on the Ferris wheel before you decide to risk it.

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    Learn to weld and start looking at the welds on those things. You wont be riding them for long.