• @hikarulsiOP
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    11 year ago

    Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that’s the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        He might fund people who are though (…though I wish we didn’t have a system that would need that…)

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          Well anyone ‘could’ fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.

      • @ch00f
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        -11 year ago

        The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.

        • @RedMarsRepublic
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          81 year ago

          What ‘scientific research’ is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That’s an obvious smokeshow.

          • @ch00f
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            51 year ago

            In a 2022 interview with CBC News, OceanGate CEO and Founder Stockton Rush said the goal of the repeated subaquatic expeditions is to offer researchers an opportunity to analyze changes surrounding the sunken ship, including the development of coral reefs, decay of the ship’s metal and changes to the ocean’s current.