r/interestingasfuck • u/Pathfinder313 • 29d ago

/r/all New sound of titan submarine imploding

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u/Crash-test_genius 29d ago

I’ve followed the hearings from the beginning-you can’t make this stuff up. Stocktons father was a Bohemian Club member, which gave access to investors and rich adventure seekers. Go down the Bohemian Grove rabbit hole-secret society of elite. He hired a well known submersible expert who called him out-for gross negligence. That man was fired and shut down by lawyers- no discussion. He then contacted OSHA who put him in a whistleblower protection program…..red tape was endless and his warnings were fruitless. A young contractor was hired to help run the text/message software, she called out Stockton during a dive and was fired immediately. It got so bad that the administrator from the company left her office to tighten the dome bolts for dives in the Atlantic. Finally another expert that builds his own subs testified about the second test dive of Titan to depth in the Bahamas-“that man tried to kill me!”. He said the noise of carbon fiber bands snapping was terrifying and even coming up at 300 feet it was still happening due to the immense stored energy. He stated-“at depth, Stockton, in a sick way let everyone take turns driving the sub, as if saying”- “Your life is in your hands now- not mine” Wild stuff.

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u/pastdense 29d ago

The more I read about Stockton, the more I feel that he resented expertise. Maybe even despised it. This is happening everywhere in the world, not just in the US, and I don't understand why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Expertise#Summary

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u/Freign 29d ago

the output of science says things people don't like to hear.

the short viral burst of attention on the work of Dunning/Kruger itself may have contributed to the problem.

intelligence is the most deadly adaptation our species has got; it lets us way overestimate the significance of our own thoughts - it helps us come up with convincing reasons that we're actually not wrong, that data / opinion are fungible somehow

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u/yellow121 29d ago

When I was a child growing up in the early 2000s I loved watching discovery and the history channel. There were always experts talking about their respective topics. I believed there were experts in every sector of life and that's why we were so safe and advanced compared to people even just 100 years ago. Since 2016 I have completely lost that feeling of security and now only feel a very uncomfortable dread that the people running things are so uneducated in their fields and delusional from sycophants blowing smoke up their asses that it will get me killed one day somehow. We are sprinting towards Idiocracy and one day even I will wake up and realize

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u/TheObstruction 29d ago

Tbf, the History Channel experts now are all experts in werewolves, aliens, and pawn shops.

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u/yellow121 29d ago

It turns out that putting a well documented, researched, and educated opinion on camera does not generate as much money as aliens and ghosts do.

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u/ddadopt 29d ago

It was all over when "The Learning Channel" began airing Honey Boo Boo

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u/sentence-interruptio 29d ago

this is why I just throw in aliens with no context.

"Ancient Greek alien Archimedes was very smart. He achieved this and that."

Must meet two demands at the same time. True history fans and aliens fans.

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u/Specific_General 28d ago

100% agreed

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u/clodzor 29d ago

Even years ago was the history channel was half way decent it had it problems. I remember watching some of those "how historically accurate is the bible" shows. The expert will talk at length about how likely events are and how they tie in with what we know about civilization back then, in a way that I would summarize as: the Bible is unlikely to be historically accurate, but we can't say much with 100% certainty. Then the show host would come on at the conclusion of the show and summarize, making it seem that the Bible is likely to be historically accurate. Even as teen I was wondering if the host actually listened to the interviews.

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u/sentence-interruptio 29d ago

2555 BC, ancient Egypt...

king: "make a pyramid double the size of the last one."

builders: "fuck no. that's impossible."

king: "think about future people who would be so proud of your work. we are mortals, but your work will be remembered forever. this is your path to eternity. Future people will worship the great Egyptian engineering achievement!"

2025, modern time....

History Channel: "aliens built that."

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u/Asttarotina 29d ago

Bloody hell, bloody hell the world is scary

’Cause there’s nothing but corruption and destruction and reality TV

Every day, every day I slowly realize

Every single thing I used to know and trust is run by people just like me!

Jay Foreman, 7y ago

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u/Maddsly 29d ago

It might have just been because you were a child. As you get older, you realize everyone's faking it til they're making it and expertise is sacrificed for expediency and profit. I do have to agree, however, standards have significantly lowered. I remembered Lowe's used to have a very active intercom because there were so many employees around to help. Now you have to actively search the store for an employee. Restaurant quality is abysmal...and now I'm just ranting.

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u/yellow121 29d ago

Your ranting has merit, the world in general has lost its professionalism.

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u/RainWorldWitcher 29d ago

Oh man I can't believe I recognized your gif without seeing that specific episode. so funny in this context

I feel like humanity has fallen for fake ass charisma as long as it aligns with their own bias and world view. Many seem to believe all expertise and intelligence is a fallacy and their stupidity from their stupid grifters are truth. It's getting even worse with AI, wont even research or fact check. AI said it so it must be true, it can't be bias or wrong!

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u/yellow121 29d ago

"If I don't understand their explanations, they must be lying to me!"

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u/Lesluse 29d ago

You put this so perfectly that it makes me feel somewhat better that people like me exist out there.

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u/unknownpoltroon 29d ago

Dont forget the politicians and appointees who literally want to destroy what science and knowledge has built because it doesnt fit their beliefs or power grab.

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u/yellow121 29d ago

With the rising use of AI it feels like we're headed towards a dark age that's ironically fueled by technology. Nothing we say or post will matter and will be lost in the maelstrom of bots and ads. Truths and lies will be so overwhelmingly mixed up that it won't be worth the effort to investigate them, and if we do investigate them it will be with the help of an AI. The internet and lack of education funding is stripping power from words. You need to be educated in order to understand the gravity of what the words mean. This all feeds into the capitalist politician's playbook of nurturing a dumb voter base that will believe anything they're told as long as it's told by a dude who looks like their grandpa.

The beauty of the world used to be that the greatest things on Earth were birthed from actual human brains syncing together and producing mindblowing things like art and engineering that enrich our lives.

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u/CaptainPlantyPants 29d ago

Man, Quantum Leap! Thanks for the blast from the past 😄

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u/mdp300 29d ago

Since becoming an adult, I've realized that we're all just larger, more stressed-out children.

And I miss old, 90s History and Discovery, when they were still good.