when gerard way sings “the broken, the beaten, and the damned” and when kermit the frog sings “the lovers, the dreamers, and me” they’re talking about the same people btw
eating buttered bread with honey and some cheese like a medieval peasant . this shit is sublime
where did society go wrong . why cant i just eat slices of meat with bread and cheese and butter and honey and fruits . why do i have to nuke something in the microwave
fucking post cancelled i just remembered chuck cutlery boards exist
the worst part ab having online friends is that to maintain the friendship you actually sort of have to have conversations with them. if we were all irl friends i would invite you into my home, give u my xbox controller & let u play a game on my bed while i lie next to u and coexist in ur space and backseat game you
So, they found the wreckage of the oceangate sub. That window at the front of the sub that they advertised as being the biggest one of all the deep sea submersibles? The one that was only certified to 1,300 metres, even though they were planning on repeatedly going to depths of nearly 4,000 metres?
Yeah, well, it failed (wow what a shock. not) and there was a “catastrophic implosion,” and the guys on board are dead. Like, instantly dead.
(EDIT: apparently the authorities think that it wasn’t the window that failed (I’m genuinely shocked about that) but rather the hull, which, though it had made the journey down to the titanic before, had sustained damage from the pressure which hadn’t been noticed/rectified. When the compromsied hull went down this time, it couldn’t withstand the pressure. One expert I saw speaking said it was likely about 0.2 seconds between the breach and total implosion.)
Details are scarce at present, but the wreck has been found less than 500 metres from the wreck of the titanic, and I suspect that the implosion happened during the descent and was what caused the loss of contact (that the ship on the surface then took 8 hours to report).
(EDIT #2: yeah they’re saying it imploded on descent and that was the cause of the loss of comms. Apparently the US navy heard a loud bang at the same time comms went down, too, which was in line with the kind of sound youd hear from a significant underwater implosion/explosion. This was reported to the coast guard, but as it wasn’t definitive, the coast guard kept going with the search/rescue on the off chance the loud underwater explosion was something else. but from the sounds of it, those in the know knew from very early on that there would be no saving those men.)
And honestly???? I feel like spontaneous depressurisation is the kindest possible outcome for the men in question. I personally would choose an instantaneous death rather than spending over three days in a metal coffin at the bottom of the ocean waiting for the oxygen to run out, squashed into the space with 4 other people who are all panicking and defecating and urinating and vomiting in the tiny space with me.
(EDIT #3: the news this morning was saying the sub had split in two; thats incorrect apparently; it’s actually in at least five pieces. When writing this post originally I had pointed out the… ironic poetry, I guess, of both the sub and the Titanic being split in two, but turns out the news had that bit wrong.)
The submersible was called the Titan, by the way. The Titan. They were insane to name it this.
So the Titan and the Titanic are now both resting at the bottom of the ocean, both split into pieces, and five more souls have been claimed by those waters. Do you think we might stop sending people down to look at the wreckage now, or nah?
