[ZH] Yes, we are at that point in the identity politics/DEI cycle where companies - in addition to CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and so on - now have Chief Diversity Officers; and no, that paragon of youthful grooming, Disney, no longer has one. That's because the chief diversity officer and senior vice president of Disney, Latondra Newton, is leaving her role after more than six years, Deadline reported citing an internal memo.
Coleman wrote that Newton "decided to leave The Walt Disney Company to pursue other endeavors." Newton plans to join the corporate board of another company and focus on the creative company she owns. It wasn't clear if she would hire Alissa Heinerscheid, best known for single handedly destroying Bud Light and Tranheuser Busch with her Dylan Mulvaney influencer campaign.
Newton had, since 2017, led Disney's diversity and inclusion initiatives, coordinating with various teams to produce entertainment "that reflects a global audience and sustains a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone," as per a profile on the company's website.
Her time at Disney included co-signing with Bob Iger and Bob Chapek the May 2020 memo to Disney staff in the wake of the George Floyd killing, titled "Resolve in the Time of Unrest." In it, the trio pledged "to use our compassion, our creative ideas and our collective sense of humanity to ensure we are fostering a culture that acknowledges our people’s feelings and their pain. We also realize that now more than ever is the time for us all to further strengthen our commitment to diversity and inclusion everywhere."
Before Disney, Newton was Group Vice President, Social Innovation and Chief Diversity Officer. Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and Chief Program Officer, Toyota Mobility Foundation, Toyota Motor Corporation. She began her career at Toyota in 1991.
Newton's departure follows two high-profile ultra-woke box office bombs. "The Little Mermaid," which has been a box office failure after its release last month, featured Black American singer Halle Bailey as Princess Ariel, highlighting the woke company's desperate attempts to rewrite history. The movie needs to gross over $560 million to reach its production and marketing threshold.
This was followed by an even more catastrophic release of the Disney Pixar movie Elemental that features a non-binary character using they/them pronouns; The production, which also features characters ’tackling’ racism and xenophobia, ranks as one of the lowest box office debuts for a Pixar movie ever. They spent around $200 million making it. It opened with a $29.5 million recoup.
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The fact these Woke films bomb seems to me the LGBTYADDAYADDA community is a very small portion of our population and is exerting an undue influence on the rest of us.
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#5
...it hasn't been a republic for decades, one that is in the interest of the vast majority of its population. It's been an oligarchy of special interests for a long while.
Legal immigrants, OK. But watch out for this:
[WashingtonExaminer] "The Biden administration still requires people to have a green card to join the military, but they're overwhelmed with people who want to join the military and cannot because they don't have a green card," said Margaret Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and author of Immigration Law and the Military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard. And then...wait for it...
Stock proposed opening up recruitment to immigrants who did not have a green card. The Department of Defense has the legal authority to recruit people without green cards and bestow expedited citizenship during times of war. More at the link.
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The also need to reach out more to the LGBTQIA+ and Trans communities. There must be a HUGE number of potential recruits there, right? /sarcasm
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#2
Not a large payoff, but payoff all the same to the TinFoils.
'And since many of them are already military, we save time and money in training, too.'
#3
Recruiting a foreign army, just like Rome, so in time the Army is loyal to the paymaster, not the citizens, and is mercenary, not patriotic?
History never repeats itself, but it often rhymes...
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] He can often be seen chanting 'Allez Les Bleus' from the stands while cheering on French sports stars.
But it was more a case of 'allez les booze' as French President Emmanuel Macron downed a bottle of Corona in front of cheering rugby players at the weekend.
The 45-year-old tilted his head back and chugged the beer down in one in the Toulouse changing room following the team's dramatic 29-26 win over La Rochelle - a win that clinched the domestic league title.
As Macron slammed the empty bottle back on the counter, he was met with the resounding cheers from the Toulouse coaching staff and players following their victory in the French Top 14 final at the Stade de France on Saturday night.
Macron, who had watched the match from the VIP lounge, was then seen smiling broadly and shaking the rugby players' hands.
Afterwards, players and staff had agreed to take a 'vow of silence' over Macron's antics, reports Le Figaro. But the footage emerged on French TV channels before going viral on social media.
#3
The kind of thing necessarily learnt at the best schools, like Paris Nanterre and Sciences Po. In this much, at least, he is a credit to his instructors.
[MOTORIOUS] The 1960s was a remarkable era in American automotive history, witnessing the birth of iconic vehicles that continue to captivate enthusiasts to this day. From sleek muscle cars to stylish luxury cruisers, this decade was a hotbed of automotive innovation, design, and power. In this article, we embark on a nostalgic journey to explore the coolest American cars of the 1960s, celebrating their unique features and enduring appeal.
Vertical shear is expected to gradually increase over the next couple of days as Bret approaches an upper-level trough located over the eastern Caribbean Sea. The storm could maintain its intensity or fluctuate in intensity through much of today, but it is expected to begin weakening by tonight once it crosses the Lesser Antilles
and moves over the eastern Caribbean Sea. Global model fields indicate that Bret should degenerate into a trough over the central Caribbean Sea by day 3, which is shown in the official forecast.
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#3
Short version: It could weaken, stay the same, or increase. Your mileage may vary.
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Bret will likely maintain its strength while it moves across the Lesser Antilles tonight. However, progressively stronger shear and dry air should cause the storm to gradually lose strength on Friday and Saturday. The NHC intensity forecast is a little lower than the previous one and near the middle of the guidance envelope. Dissipation is expected to occur on Sunday, following the global model guidance.
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I saw comments on Hurricane blogs. Some were still hoping for rapid intensification and damage to mainland US.
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^ It won't matter, per St. Grrrrta, we've already died from Climate Change. And Net Neutrality
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we've already died from Climate Change
Lucky bastages! Some of use died back in the 70's from over-population, famine and resource depletion. Didn't you read the Club of Rome report titled "Limits to Growth"?
#2
Turn over the program (and funding!) over to the army.
Watch the blue suits scream.
The Air Force likes to pretend nothing useful happens below 10,000 ft., and that they should have exclusive control over all flying. The war happens on the surface.
The closest the air power advocates came to justification was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Think on that.
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#3
Dumb, just dumb. Why do they hate the CAS mission and the perfect aircraft for it?
#4
The Marines had their own CAS aircraft. So, instead the Army will just lobby for rotor aircraft to do a similar mission, when what we have already does the job. How many billions will that be?
#5
I love the A-10, but we aren't in an insurgency war anymore and it wouldn't survive long in Ukraine. It is getting long in the tooth and it is time to find its replacement. Maybe a stealth drone that can hover and brrrrrrrt you to death.
#6
The original Airmobile Division planned to have OV-1 Mohawk armed with 5" Zuni rockets as its integral Air Artillery units -- the USAF screamed and hollered (Key West Agreement) and the Army switched to helicopter gunships. It looks more and more that giving the CAS role to the USAF is a bureaucratic blunder because the USAF high command just doesn't think it is sexy enough.
#7
My son is an Air Force officer (not a pilot). He says that the A-10 is not good enough if you don't have air superiority. It is very vulnerable to modern fighters.
Personally, I love the A-10. Ground pounders love the A-10. Only the Air Force hates it.
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What plane is 'good enough' to loiter and give quality CAS if you don't have 'Air Superiority'? There are plenty of anecdotes about 'fast flyer' jets from Vietnam that did a "zoom 'n boom" before leaving the battlefield whether they did any good or not.
Further I have always believed that specialization also applies to pilots (and their unit ethos) -- train a unit to specialize in air superiority (which includes bombing enemy airfields) and they get good at that and that only. The bean counters love their "multi-role wunderwaffe" but in the real world the war requires different folks doing their best in different roles -- specialists.
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....Sooooooooo let me see if I got this straight:
1: We don't need the Hog any more because we can do CAS with the Lightning.
2: We're getting rid of the specialist teams that would enable the Lightning to do CAS in the first place.
There is no way in Hell any commander is going to risk F-35s in a CAS scenario. Even if they're not lost, even slight damage takes a big chunk out of the plane's stealth.
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Re #2 and #9, Dan Hampton in his autobiography Viper Pilot talked about being commended by the Army and grounded by the USAF for "going below 10,000'" in the same action. The requested CAS mission was obscured by a low, well lower than 10,000', cloud deck and he went in anyway -- against standing orders to stay above the magic number.
I can see the following about the F35 "...We are sorry to refuse your CAS request. Our meteorologist states that you would have to go below 10,000' exposing the RAM stealth paint to 'significant risk' and voiding the warranty. Have a nice Day and Good Bye!"
#15
Check out book ‘flying in the face of fear’ and the AF Capt that refused to leave her broken bird over enemy territory. So shot ip they crapped it on site. But it got her home.
#16
Law of Diminishing Returns strikes: a drone that could carry a big bomb load is both as big as a manned vehicle and too expensive to throw away. The best drones should be expendable and if they come back it is a plus ...kind of like SpaceX being able to reuse their rocket boosters but being willing to sacrifice them as necessary.
[UncoverDC] This past week the judge in the case, General Michael Flynn v. US, ordered that the venue will NOT change to DC, and the case will remain in Florida.
#1
The only thing wrong with this is the American Taxpayer will end up footing the bill for any settlement to General Flynn, not the crooked bastards that tried to ruin him.
#2
It serves as an opportunity to get some things we know and suspect validation as evidence. Also, if Flynn is financially restored, the beast has failed to destroy him. I consider that $50M to be money better spent than all our Ukrainian boondoggle dollars
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Financially restored, with a cold anger unleashed after all they tried to do to him, I suspect Flynn has some stories to tell about the Lightbringer years!
In Carbonville, man, is it hot
As Science and plunder are sought!
Let's ask one young hellion,
"Son, why the rebellion?"
Growls Greta, "Grrrrr! Whaddaya got?"
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[Regnum] OceanGate pilot David Lochridge was fired after he warned the company about the dangers of using Titan submersibles. This was reported by the NBC news channel, citing court documents.
According to him, five years ago, the pilot repeatedly informed the management that the shell of the Titan submersibles had not been sufficiently tested to make sure that this device could safely descend to a depth of 4,000 meters.
It is noted that the pilot was fired after he told management that the company would endanger customers. Lochridge also stated that OceanGate refused to pay extra for a viewing window that could be safely used at a depth of 4,000 meters.
As reported by IA Regnum , on June 18, communication with the OceanGate Expedition device, designed to deliver tourists to the site of the Titanic wreck, was lost. Searches off the coast of Newfoundland are underway with the participation of two aircraft from the United States and Canada. There are five people on board the bathyscaphe. According to Sky News, OceanGate Expeditions president and founder Stockton Rush , French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet , British billionaire Hamish Harding, as well as 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman , all living in the UK, went on the expedition.
Rescuers searching for the missing Titan submersible heard "acoustic feedback". According to rescuers, the additional acoustic feedback will help coordinate and guide equipment on the surface, and it is also hoped that the crew and passengers remain hopeful of an early release. It is noted that the sounds were similar to knocking.
According to data as of June 20, the air on the Titan bathyscaphe that disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean remained for 40 hours.
The hull of the Titan bathyscaphe, which disappeared on June 18 in the Atlantic Ocean, which descended to the sunken Titanic liner, had signs of cyclic fatigue back in 2020. This was reported by NBC, citing information from OceanGate founder Stockton Rush three years ago.
The hull of the underwater vehicle, due to "fatigue", was able to dive to a depth of only 3 km. The wreckage of the Titanic lies at a depth of 3.8 km.
Despite this, in 2021 OceanGate announced an excursion to the Titanic, which was carried out on the Titan. The company's website says that the Titan can dive to a depth of four thousand meters.
As reported by IA Regnum , communication with the bathyscaphe disappeared on June 18. Searches off the coast of Newfoundland are underway with the participation of two aircraft from the United States and Canada.
There are five people on board the bathyscaphe. The expedition was attended by President and Founder of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush, French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, as well as 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman, who live in the UK.
Air on the "Titan" was left for 40 hours. If the device is not damaged and is still functioning, then the air will end at approximately 13:30 Moscow time on June 22.
One of the expedition members got in touch on June 20. Irish explorer Rory Golden said that everything was fine with him, he was on board the ship from which the bathyscaphe was lowered.
You can get the bathyscaphe, which could presumably get stuck in the wreckage of the Titanic that sank at the beginning of the 20th century, from a depth of 3.8 km if you can find it and take it in tow. The former commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Vyacheslav Popov , and the former commander of the Baltic Fleet, Admiral Vladimir Valuev , spoke about ways to help RIA Novosti .
According to Vyacheslav Popov, there are technologies for raising the apparatus from the bottom of the ocean.
“Difficult, but possible, even from this depth. If there is this bathyscaphe, there are others - rescue ones that can be used. If they are found, then I am convinced that there are opportunities to raise them , ”the admiral assured.
Admiral Vladimir Valuev also supported his colleague.
“There are deep-sea submersibles, the main thing is to find the Titan, and then it’s a matter of technology. It is almost impossible to reload at such a depth; no one else has such technology. Just somehow unhook, tow and lift , ”explained the ex-commander of the Baltic fleet.
Valuev remembered the successful rescue operation in August 2005 in Kamchatka. Then the incident occurred on the submersible for search and rescue operations AS-28. Bathyscaphe, on which there were seven people, could not rise to the surface. At a depth of 190 meters, the device became entangled in fishing nets and cables of the coastal infrastructure of the Pacific Fleet.
After unsuccessful attempts to tow the submersible to a depth where divers could be used, the Russian rescue ship KIL-27 arrived at the scene with British rescuers. A video link was established with the crew and within eight hours they managed to free the device.
In addition, the admiral assured that the crew of the Titan could last up to 150 hours instead of 96 if they save oxygen.
As IA Regnum reported , the hull of the Titan submersible that disappeared on June 18 in the Atlantic Ocean, which was descending to the sunken Titanic liner, had signs of cyclic fatigue back in 2020 . This was reported by NBC, citing information from OceanGate founder Stockton Rush three years ago .
There are five people in the bathyscaphe: President and founder of OceanGate Expeditions Stockton Rush, French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet , British billionaire Hamish Harding, and 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman , who live in the UK.
Air on the "Titan" was left for 40 hours . If the device is not damaged and is still functioning, then the air will end at approximately 13:30 Moscow time on June 22.
One of the expedition members got in touch on June 20 . Irish explorer Rory Golden said that everything was fine with him, he was on board the ship from which the bathyscaphe was lowered.
The situation of the passengers of the submersible "Titan", which was heading for the "Titanic" and disappeared, looks almost hopeless, and most likely it will not be possible to save them. On June 21, Nikolay Cherkashin , a historian of the submarine fleet, a captain of the 1st rank, an officer of the submarine fleet, stated this to a correspondent of IA Regnum on June 21.
According to him, no one could be rescued from such depths. The necessary evacuation systems are not provided, and therefore we can say that the passengers of this bathyscaphe are doomed.
Nevertheless, if the bathyscaphe is stuck among some of the wreckage of the Titanic, then, as Cherkashin believes, there is theoretically a way to influence this situation. If you know the exact location of the bathyscaphe, then you can arrange a directed underwater explosion that could shake off the wreckage of the ship and help the bathyscaphe free itself from the trap in which it can be assumed to have fallen.
“I remember the story of the submarine commander, Vice Admiral Shchedrin . He said that in 1942, his submarine, leaving the Panama Canal, got stuck between the pipes of a sunken ship. And they, too, found themselves in a hopeless situation at first. But they began to rock the submarine, running from side to side. Then there was a roar, the pipe fell, and they surfaced,” said Cherkashin.
In addition, he recalled an incident in 1981, when Russian aquanauts, diving on the Tethys bathyscaphe in the Crimea region, also got stuck. Their small apparatus fell under an underwater cable. And when their air was almost dry, a cable ship approached the scene, which lifted the cable, and the Tethys surfaced. But then it was about a little depth.
“And here four kilometers. And there is no chance of salvation,” Cherkashin stated.
The expert also doubted that it was possible to carry out a rescue operation by using another bathyscaphe that could pull out his stuck brother.
According to him, firstly, in order to perform such an operation, a second similar bathyscaphe is needed, and as far as one can judge, there are only three of them. But none of them have manipulators - mechanical hands that could perform some kind of action. Attaching a cable at such a depth is a very difficult operation. Requires training, special crew.
Cherkashin also spoke about the most common causes of accidents on underwater vehicles.
“The most terrible enemy of a submariner is not water or depth. This is electricity. There may be a short circuit. A fire at such a depth is different in that oxygen burns out instantly and there is absolutely nothing to breathe. Especially when you consider the small volumes of the bathyscaphe. But there is no information about what happened on board,” said Cherkashin.
Discussing the psychological situation on board the bathyscaphe, the interlocutor of IA Regnum recalled that the designer of this apparatus is on board, who is now sorting through all the options and looking for what his main mistake is, why they got into such a difficult situation.
“And everyone else… Of course, being on death row (and this is a death row!) is very difficult. Maybe someone lost consciousness because people are not young. Someone could seize the heart from a premonition of what might happen. The most terrible thing is that all of humanity, which is watching them, cannot help them. They went into such a jungle, to such a depth. They are almost on another planet," Cherkashin added.
Summing up what was said, he added that there is an element of some mysticism in what happened.
“You can't tempt fate. And they are testers of fate. Even the bathyscaphe was named “Titan” in memory of the “Titanic,” the submarine officer noted.
Earlier , IA Regnum reported that the Titan bathyscaphe could presumably get stuck in the wreckage of the Titanic that sank at the beginning of the 20th century at a depth of 3.8 km. Some experts believe that it can be saved by taking it in tow.
Meanwhile, Read also: the air on the "Titan" is less than 40 hours, while the search efforts of rescuers have not yet yielded results. There are five people on board the bathyscaphe. According to Sky News, the expedition included OceanGate Expeditions president and founder Stockton Rush , French aquanaut Paul-Henri Narjolet , British billionaire Hamish Harding , and 48-year-old Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleiman.
The action-packed drama with the submersible "Titan", lying for the third day at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean next to the wreckage of the "Titanic", aroused interest in small submarines in the information space. They are in the military and civil fleets of some states and solve a wide range of tasks: from rescue operations to scientific research and underwater sabotage. Since Soviet times, bathyscaphes have also been actively used by Russia.
Here are five facts about our ultra-small submersible.
✔️ Bathyscaphes have been in trouble in the world's oceans before. So on July 21, 1980, the Soviet apparatus Argus, during its 105th dive in the Black Sea, caught on an underwater cable at a depth of 340 meters. The rescue operation lasted more than a day. The life support system proved to be at the highest level: three scientists spent 44 hours and 25 minutes in the bathyscaphe, and thermal protection did not allow the internal temperature to fall below 17 degrees.
✔️ Two Soviet bathyscaphes "Mir-1" and "Mir-2" became known to the whole world after participating in the filming of James Cameron's blockbuster "Titanic". Their film career did not end there. "Worlds" was featured in the documentaries "Ghosts of the Abyss", "The Bismarck Expedition" and "The Last Mysteries of the Titanic", as well as in the sci-fi "Aliens from the Abyss". An immersion depth of six thousand meters made it possible to observe objects from these bathyscaphes on 98.5 percent of the bottom of the oceans, so they were often used to survey and survey sunken ships and submarines.
✔️ In 1990, the flagship of the Soviet and Russian underwater shipbuilding, Sevmash, built the first domestic underwater vehicle designed for tourist diving. It was named "Neptune" and was intended for excursions in previously surveyed areas where the depth of the water area does not exceed 40 meters. Passenger capacity - 35 people. However, due to the identified design flaws, the boat did not go into series. Currently, its improved version, Sadko, is being operated in Greece.
✔️ To date, the deepest Russian manned submersible is the Consul bathyscaphe, which was accepted into the Navy in 2011. The maximum depth of its immersion is 6270 meters. The device is designed for classifying and filming objects on the seabed, performing technical work using a manipulator, delivering to the ground or lifting objects weighing up to 200 kilograms to the surface. NATO intelligence considers Consul a threat and claims that it can be used to destroy transatlantic submarine communications.
✔️The most modern rescue submersible in the Russian Navy is the deep-sea rescue vehicle AS-40 of project 18271 Bester-1, which became part of the Pacific Fleet in 2016. It has a strong titanium alloy hull and a total submerged displacement of about 60 tons. The working depth of immersion is 700 meters. At one time, "Bester" can lift 22 people to the surface from a sunken submarine. Most importantly, the rotary suction chamber allows you to perform a rescue operation when the emergency submarine is listing up to 45 degrees.
There's no space in my brain to understand what's happening with the OcenGate submarine called Titan, I bring you a summary because I already read 845 articles, and I became a little obsessed with the story.
Experience to be part of this death trap costs a modest amount of $250,000 PER PERSON. The submarine traveled five people, including its creator Stockton Rush. The goal of this trip is to descend 3,800 feet deep to admire the rusty irons that were once part of the famous Titanic structure. There is no other submarine in the world that can reach that depth, and there is no other OceanGate submarine either.
On Sunday after 1hr 45 min having started the journey, lost communication completely and until today Wednesday, they are not heard from them even though the rescue operation was started immediately after losing contact with Stockton Rush.
If they survive, these are the questions I'd ask the crew and the creator:
- The submarine was controlled with a Logitech controller for video games, PS controller type. (second red flag)
- There was no regulatory authority to verify and approve the safety of the submarine, and when one person brought this issue to court, they fired him.
- Who the fuck pays $250,000 to see through the screen of the submarine, a ship that sank in 1912? Omg put a documentary on YouTube and you’ll see the exact same thing.
- Why didn't the submarine have GPS? The AirTag costs 35 euros, couldn't it have been included in the price?
If they are alive right now, they must be in the dark, with little oxygen, surrounded by foul smells, vomiting, urine, etc. Some must be fainting, delirious and listening to the squeals of when the submarine moves and hits other objects. The submarine has no standing space, so they must be having muscle aches, breathing problems. Some must be blaming the creator, maybe they attacked him already. In a nutshell, they must be living torture.
Only some millionaires pay this much to die this way.
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Air "amount" is deceiving. CO2 accumulation will kill you if its partial pressure is high enough against oxygen/nitrogen content.
I wonder if they even have submarine/maritime grade CO2 scrubbers? Or, as some have said, were they just pumping more oxygen in to keep the O2 levels up because it is less weight and cheaper than filtering and scrubbing the air, and betting the short duration meant they didnt need to bother with the expense. Problem is that results in an enriched oxygen atmosphere to stay ahead of the CO2. Oxygen enrichment is problematic if you have a spark.
Plus there was only one hatch. And no way to open the only hatch except for the 17 external bolts that were cinched down tightly to seal the craft shut. Accessible only on the exterior. Essentially they were spam in a can.
Also, apparently there was no high pressure vent system and nor reserves to purge toxic gas or smoke in the case of electric fire.
Does nobody remember history? Any of those young engineers ever heard the names Roger Chaffee, Ed White and Gus Grissom? Apollo 1.
They couldn't purge their sealed capsule, and they burned to death while waiting on the pad engineers to undo the external bolts to open the only hatch to rescue them.
History is quite a harsh teacher to those who refuse to learn from it.
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A Boris-A or Yasen-M class submarine bobbing to the surface in the Atlantic with OceanGate sitting on it's deck and the crew waving from the bridge, would be a real pant leg filler.
#13
The weight of a cable that long has to be a consideration as well.
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The wife of Stockton Rush, the pilot of the missing Titanic tour submarine, is actually the great-great-granddaughter of two first-class passengers who died on the Titanic, according to records.
A fictionalized version of the couple is even featured in the movie “Titanic” pic.twitter.com/Eg4begLgO4
#18
Hull was carbon fiber composite, can you say rapid de-lamination! Also from experience with high power rockets this means confetti!. Composite materials are really strong until they aren't!
#19
Spin up the congressional committees to "do something."
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I find the story of Maria Strydom, the vegan who died climbing Everest, much more compelling.
She died doing what she loved: lecturing the rest of us about veganism.
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The finding of the debris field that may be the remains of the OceanGate gives me hope that it suffered a sudden catastrophic hull failure. At the depth where they were probably at, it would mean an almost instantaneous death, rather than one spread out over days.
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Fox reporting the USN picked up sounds of an implosion on day 1.so just who the hell kept up the wild goose chase, spending dollars, burning up equipment and risking only God knows how many lives for what? They were dead on day 1, they were dead on day 5, and are gonna be dead for a long time. Just dumb luck none of the many rescue vehicles crashed or sunk.
Just who ok’ed that circlejerk???
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USN, they may have heard an implosion, but not necessarily connected it with the OceanSpace vessel. Or they may not have had an exact location of the implosion.
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As I understand it hydrophone returns are never purely linear, and defend on the location of the detecting device with relation to the detected sound.
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Re: SOSUS; story indicates sound consistent with location, and SOSUS operators pretty sharp. Read the alternate theory about loss of Thresher, tapes revealed high pressure air system problems, 42 yrs of experience operator tried to disprove rickovers issue. Tapes still classified.
#29
At that depth given the pressure, the wavefront of the implosion would be about 2000m/s. The thing was at most 3m wide, imploding from all sides means it only has to cover 1.5m. That’s less than a millisecond. Blink of an eye takes 300 ms. At least death was pretty much instantaneous.
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Continuing an accelerating trend that dates back to the Trump presidency despite Biden admin cheerleading.
[An Nahar] Foreign companies are shifting investments and their Asian headquarters out of China as confidence plunges following the expansion of an anti-spying law and other challenges, a business group said Wednesday.
The report by the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Chamber of Commerce in China adds is one of many signs of growing pessimism despite the ruling Communist Party's efforts to revive interest in the world's No. 2 economy following the end of anti-virus controls.
Companies are uneasy about security controls, government protection of their Chinese rivals and a lack of action on reform promises, according to the European Chamber. They also are being squeezed by slowing Chinese economic growth and rising costs.
Business confidence in China is "pretty much the lowest we have on record," the European Chamber president, Jens Eskelund, told news hounds ahead of the report's release.
"There's no expectation that the regulatory environment is really going to improve over the next five years," Eskelund said.
President Xi Jinping's government, trying to shore up economic growth that sank to 3% last year, is trying to encourage foreign companies to invest and bring in technology. But they are uneasy about security rules and plans to create competitors to global suppliers of computer chips, commercial jetliners and other technology. That often involves subsidies and market barriers that Washington and the European Union say violate Beijing's free-trade commitments.
Two-thirds of the 570 companies that responded to the European Chamber's survey said doing business in China has become more difficult, up from less than half before the pandemic. Three out of five said the business environment is "more political," up from half the previous year.
Companies are on edge after police raided offices of two consultancies, Bain & Co.
...Mitt Romney’s old stomping grounds...
and Capvision, and a due diligence firm, Mintz Group, without public explanation. Authorities say companies are obliged to obey the law but have given no indication of possible violations.
Companies also are uneasy about Beijing's promotion of national self-reliance. Xi's government is pressing manufacturers, hospitals and others to use Chinese suppliers even if that raises their costs. Foreign companies worry they might be shut out of their markets.
Last month, the government banned using products from the biggest U.S. maker of memory chips, Micron Technology Inc., in computers that handle sensitive information. It said Micron had unspecified security flaws but gave no explanation.
One in 10 companies in the European Chamber survey said they have shifted investments out of China. Another 1 in 5 are delaying or considering shifting investments. In aviation and aerospace, 1 in 5 companies plan no future investment in China.
New silicon chip factories being built in America, Europe, Israel, and beyond...
China has long been a top investment destination due to its huge and growing consumer market, but companies complain about market access restrictions, pressure to hand over technology and other irritants. The ruling party has tightened control since Xi took power in 2012, pressing foreign companies to give the party board seats and a direct say in hiring and other decisions.
The European Chamber noted it wasn't just foreign companies that are moving: 2 out of 5 in its survey reported Chinese customers or suppliers are shifting investments out of the country.
How very amusing. For some, anyway, if not the Chinese government.
A separate group, the British Chamber of Commerce in China, said last month its members were waiting for "greater clarity" about anti-spying, data security and other rules before making new investments.
Promises are easy, especially Communist Party promises. Actually supplying rule of law and equality under the law for all is something else altogether.
The biggest concern is the ruling party's sweeping expansion of its definition of national security to include the economy, food, energy and politics, Eskelund said.
"What does qualify as a state secret? Where does politics begin and the commercial world stop?" Eskelund said. That "creates uncertainty" about "where we can operate as normal businesses."
In the European Chamber survey, the top destination for companies moving their Asian headquarters out of China was Singapore, with 43% of companies that moved, followed by Malaysia. Only 9% went or plan to go to Hong Kong.
Leaders including Premier Li Qiang, China's top economic official, have promised to improve operating conditions, but businesses say they see few concrete changes.
"Our members are not really convinced that we are going to see tangible results," Eskelund said.
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[Breitbart] Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in the coming days will introduce articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden under a privileged resolution.
By superseding House Republican leadership’s ability to control what comes to the House floor, Greene will launch articles of impeachment against Joe Biden, bypassing the usual process for bringing legislation to a full House vote.
Greene’s resolution will force House Republicans to vote on the measure.
"I don’t know what it’s going to take to get them to realize what fools Republicans look like in Congress for not moving forward on impeachment," Greene exclusively told Breitbart News.
"Joe Biden is a criminal," she said. "And as vice president of the United States, he committed crimes. He committed crimes, high crimes, and misdemeanors."
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Even though I know nothing will come of this, I do really want to see these idiots forced to vote on an actual high crime for impeachment. Face the music and your bosses, assholes.
[Hot Air] In March, President Biden signed a bill that required declassification of information about the origins of COVID-19.
"In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security*," Biden said in a statement. * There's the out
The bill sailed through the Senate and House of Representatives without opposition before being sent to the White House.
The law Biden signed set a 90 day deadline to release the relevant documents which means they should have been released by Sunday June 18. Given that Sunday wasn’t a work day for most government employees you would think the documents would have been released last week. In fact, Sen. Josh Hawley and Mike Braun sent a letter to Biden last Thursday asking him to comply with the deadline. The letter read in part:
As you know, the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023 requires the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to "declassify any and all information" relating to links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19 within 90 days of the law’s enactment. That deadline, June 18, 2023, is fast approaching. Your Administration has not yet provided any indication of when the relevant material will be declassified.
For reasons that aren’t clear, the Biden administration seems to have decided to give itself some extra time and plans to finally release the documents this week instead. In anticipation of that release the NY Times has a story up suggesting that there’s a reason the CIA and other intel agencies are sitting on the fence about the origin question.
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Why was it classified in the first place? National security? LOL. More like Fauci security.
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as much of that information as possible,
As others have noted, who determines what is possible?
This administration is solidly in the camp of treason. There goal since Obama has been to totally cripple the US and have all our citizens suffer as much as possible.
Imagine being an earthquake survivor trapped under rubble, unable to move and fearing dying there, when suddenly you see a rat coming towards you.
What would you feel? Fear? Panic? Nausea?
Actually, you should feel hope. Because incredibly, scientists have been able to train these small creatures to search through rubble to find human survivors.
When they do, they raise the alarm and a rescue mission is launched.
These astonishing animals - known as HeroRATS - are trained by Apopo, a not-for-profit organisation set up by Bart Weetjens, from Belgium, who realised the potential of rats because they have such powerful noses – even better than dogs.
In the mid-1990s he and some friends, including Apopo co-founder and chief executive Christophe Cox, began looking into training them to sniff out landmines, figuring they were small enough to find them but not set them off.
They were right.
Landmines are a scourge in 58 countries, restricting the amount of land used for farming, and killing or maiming innocent adults and children without warning.
To fight this blight, the Belgians chose African giant pouched rats as they're calm and live longer than most breeds – around eight years compared to two.
took years but the team, now based in Tanzania, eventually managed to train them to sniff out landmines and scratch at the ground when they find one, so it can be disposed of safely.
Not only do they do it well, they do it quickly: a tennis court-sized space can be cleared in half an hour compared to the four days it would take humans with metal detectors.
'Apopo has now discovered 155,744 landmines and it's growing every day,' says Christophe. 'We've helped 2.2 million people who were directly affected by them.'
The organisation is funded by donations from supporters, the largest of which is People's Postcode Lottery, which has so far given £5.9m. They also receive money from people who sponsor specific rats - find out more here.
HeroRATS have been used in Zimbabwe, Angola, Cambodia and Mozambique - this last is now landmine free.
The creatures, which each cost around £5,000 to train in a nine-month-long programme, have recently been deployed to Azerbaijan, while discussions about them going to work in Ukraine have started.
Incredibly, not one of the 298 rats now used has ever been killed.
Their success in sniffing out landmines, and some are also used to detect tuberculosis, led Apopo to wonder if they could be used in search and rescue missions, as they are small and agile enough to get into places humans and dogs cannot reach.
Two years ago, six rats began a training programme to find people in collapsed buildings and it has gone so well that they are set to be deployed for the first time next year.
To do this, they wear a tiny technology-enabled backpack that allows them to communicate with their human handlers on the surface.
'We've trained them to perform two behaviours,' says Dr Danielle Giangrasso, who's led the project. 'The first is to go in and perform an indication response.
'They wear harnesses with microswitches attached to a ball and when they find a human, they pull that ball which makes a sound so we know they've found someone.
'The second is to return to base when they hear a special beeper, so they don't wander too far into a building, and we can control the time they're in there.'
The rats have been trained in small treat-based steps. First was identifying a human being, rather than something such as a sock which only had the smell of a human.
Every time they did it successfully, they got a food reward (a mix of avocado, bananas and rodent food pellets). As time went on, they had to discover humans hidden by debris with perhaps only their hand showing.
Getting them to tap the ball each time was taught in a similar way. Luckily, the rats' natural curiosity meant they loved to touch it, and every time they did so, they got a treat. Eventually they only got a treat if they touched it when they found a human.
They were also trained to tell the difference between a live and dead human - they smell very different, apparently. Now the rats have one last skill to learn before being deployed.
'We're doing distraction training,' explains Danielle. 'They have to learn to avoid items like food or washing powder in the environment they're searching. It's very advanced.
'After that, they'll be used for earthquakes and natural disasters that lead to building collapses.'
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[ZH] Yes, we are at that point in the identity politics/DEI cycle where companies - in addition to CEOs, COOs, CIOs, and so on - now have 
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