• @moriquende
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    197 months ago

    how on earth do you spend 144k to tow some air bubble back to the coast?

    • @grue
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      7 months ago

      Salaries for the entire crew of a Coast Guard cutter (100+ people) for however long it took to find and retrieve him would be a big-ticket item. Plus all the fuel and other operational costs for the cutter, along with the same for a C-130 search plane, MH-60 rescue helicopter, and whatever other stuff they used.

    • Rentlar
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      187 months ago

      Hiring a boat, a chopper or two and supporting a healthy military industrial complex.

      • Midnight Wolf
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        127 months ago

        I need a cake = $

        I need a wedding cake = $$$$

        I need fuel = $

        I need boat fuel = $$$$$$

        checks out

          • Midnight Wolf
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            7 months ago

            About tree fiddy

            E: “and do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded w-”

            “GIVE ME FUEL GIVE ME FIRE GIVE ME THAT WHICH I DESIREEE”

            “damn it guys NOT YET!”

        • the post of tom joad
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          47 months ago

          It’s true. Boat fuel is just more expensive cuz it’s fuel they bought from the gas station and put by the water, unlike say jet fuel.

          • Midnight Wolf
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            37 months ago

            Well yeah, it’s a huge hassle to put fueling stations in the sky. Very dangerous to stop for a top-up. And every year, dozens of stations are obliterated by planes travellings through clouds and other poor conditions. These tragic events are known as turbulence.

            in the arms of an angel starts playing

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              “In the arms of a buuubble, the weed flies away frooomm herrree …fell out the bilge hole…in the weedlessness that you fear …”