• BornVolcano@lemmy.world
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    Y’all are super judgy about this submarine thingy looking for the titanic considering mast of you will ride a Ferris Wheel that a meth-head with three teeth set up in a grocery store parking lot in a half hour.


    ^I’m a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!^

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    The ferris wheel was QA’d to the point that even a meth-head could set it up safely.

      • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
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        Also:

        A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

        − Douglas Adams

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        Totally agreed! However the ferris wheel was built by actual engineers not some rich guy who fired/sued his engineers into silence.

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      A Google News search for “carnival accident” shows that carnival rides seemingly kill or seriously injure people in the US every couple weeks.

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      Looking at the bright side, at least in a submarine you aren’t going to feel 4000lbs of pressure in every direction coming at you at once because it’ll happen faster than your brain can register. Not like you’d feel it anyway after being reduced to the human equivalent of a gogurt

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    I guarantee the three-toothed meth-head knows more about assembling and running a carnival ride than submarine dude knows about his best buy remote control.

    Plus, one of them is still alive.

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      Yes and he’s done it twice a week every week for a long time.

  • dan1101@lemmy.world
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    The Ferris wheel doesn’t go 2.5 miles deep underwater though. And you can sit there and watch successful trips on the Ferris wheel before you decide to risk it.

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      I mean all of the previous trips were successful by most measures…

      Also plenty of people do watersports and other excursions with very sketchy tourist companies signing away stuff on all sorts of waivers. Some of these activities are not only dangerous but incredibly expensive as well.

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        All of the previous trips didn’t get everybody killed, but most weren’t “successful”. They had tons of issues like regular power loss and communication outages, and many of the trips never even made it to the Titanic.

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    Learn to weld and start looking at the welds on those things. You wont be riding them for long.

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    The Ferris wheel has a survival chance of >0 though.