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What I hope happens next with that whole Titanic tourism / OceanGate mess:
they find the submersible at the surface somewhere, with everyone spooked but alive.
OceanGate and any subsidiary company gets sued into the ground, any person responsible for this gets charged with attempted murder.
Stricter protocols for any sort of civilian tourism in places they shouldn't be, and yes i also mean space and other scientific research sites
The media turn to the adjacent topic of the rescue boats in the Mediterranean's Sea, holding governments responsible for not caring enough about hundreds and thousands of people trying to flee to Europe every day.
Markiplier's Iron Lung movie does well, and will not be critiqued as a tasteless and tactless movie about the recent tragedy, seeing as it's just a nod to an Indie horror game and was filmed before all of this happened.
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oceangate 2, perhaps?
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Scientists have suspected that space flights could be contributing to climate change even when they don’t utilize traditional CO2-spouting jet fuels. Other particles produced by rockets could be irreversible damage to the ozone layer, according to a new study by University College London, the University of Cambridge, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The research, which was published in the journal Earth’s Future, calls for urgent mitigation before the space tourism industry really takes off. “What we really need now is a discussion amongst experts on the best strategy for regulating this rapidly growing industry,” co-author Dr. Eloise Marais said.
This research team found that rocket launches are actually far worse for the planet than your typical flight on an airplane. That’s because the launches give off “black carbon” particles, also known as soot. Black carbon has a climate-warming impact between 460 and 1,500 times stronger than CO2 per unit of mass.
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So I’m seeing jokes about Virgin Galactic announcing space flights shortly after the OceanGate incident, and I just want to let you know not to get your hopes up that this is going to kill more billionaires.
Low orbit space flights are far safer than deep-sea dives. There’s still a lot of ways to fuck it up, but the most dangerous parts are launch and atmosphere re-entry, and the technology for that is incredibly established and has been practiced far more than manned deep-sea dives. Not to mention, they will be bound to government regulations regarding aviation safety unless they’re somehow launching from and landing in international waters.
Generally speaking, space tourism is nowhere near as extreme as deep-sea tourism, and has been something that the the entire field has been working towards for decades. It’s also far more likely to become a widespread practice within our lifetimes, and may become accessible to working class people relatively soon.
That said, if Virgin Galactic’s space planes blow up during launch or something, I’ll go eat a sandwich about it I guess. We’ll see.
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Private space travel exploded in 2021 and 2022.
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Mom and I were talking about the missing submersible last night, and she said “I’m sure there’s maritime laws associated with it.”
And I laughed. Because laws and regulations that involve safety only get made when people are injured or die.
Fact is, the technology for deep sea exploration is incredibly new, as in when I was in elementary school they had just found the Titanic in 1985 (within my lifetime) and Dr Robert Ballard visited my elementary school with a full-size mock-up of Alvin (3-seater submersible used to explore Titanic) and gave a lecture on it.
To this day I have no idea how my school scored a visit like that, but for a long time I wanted to do something associated with ocean exploration because of it.
Alvin was in existence since the 1960s. This is extremely new tech that was developed alongside space exploration technology at NASA. I say it’s extremely new because if something goes wrong it’s almost inevitably got a body count involved.
As we can recall, there have been many tragedies involving space missions, and the space shuttles are retired, in no small part because they were degrading to the point of being unsafe regardless of maintenance. Rules existed, but we don’t know if private companies are following those rules.
And they didn’t build the Titan—they just helped a private company do so, and private companies tend to cut corners to save money when there aren’t regulations to stop them.
For the Titan, which is a baby in comparison, a whistleblower was fired in 2018 for writing a quality control report stating it was unsafe. Other sources state it’s hull rating was downgraded and it was no longer safe to reach the depth of the Titanic, where water has about the density of lead due to the insane pressure.
With the space and deep sea tourist industries in their infancy, it’s unlikely there are currently many safety regulations in place, and so this was inevitable. There’s a reason many people assumed Shatner and Musk would die in their space tourism experience.
And so now we’re going to see how this disaster impacts these industries, particularly after five big names are likely dead, and multiple countries scramble on taxpayer funds (not OceanGate’s) to try to save them when, if the hull failed, they likely died before it could register there was a problem.
Even before we know exactly what happened, this needs to mark an era of change, particularly as these companies continue to exist and put people at risk.
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When space tourism becomes an affordable thing, destination weddings are going to become that much more unbearable.
Why set off to Hawaii (leave Hawaii alone; it’s been through enough), when you can visit the Martian colonies.
The red planet a bit too mainstream for you? Looking for something a bit more grandiose? How about you hope a few planets further away and enjoy Saturn’s stormy light shows?
Scared that gigantic diamond ring on your finger will be outshone by Saturn’s diamond rains? Why not enjoy some champagne while witnessing the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula? Who cares how upset your guests will be about having to travel 7,000 light years to attend. They should be grateful they got invited at all.
#space#space travel#space tourism#destination weddings#astronomy#planets#saturn#mars#eagle nebula#wedding#how much worse can we make weddings#Look at me sipping my beverage as I gaze out of the window of the space ship flying around Venus#admiring the planet's opaque clouds of sulfuric acid#pretending to enjoy myself when the bride and groom come by to say hello#regretting that I failed to come up with a good excuse to avoid this wedding#realising too late that I'm really not close enough to the newly weds to justify this trip#can't even escape because I'm trapped on the space ship with the happy couple and all the other suckers who also RSVP'd
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#astronaut#girl#space#rootsinthefuture#sci-fi#science fiction#sci fi#future#futuristic#space tourism#spaceship#stable diffusion
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Virgin Galactic first space tourism flight
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#blue origin#business#meme#memes#news#Richard Branson#space#space tourism#SpaceX#suborbital flight#tech#technology#tourism#travel#virgin galactic
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I think the world has more pressing issues than a lack of deep sea and space tourism.
Don't tell me that it will fund scientific research somehow. If playing pretend scientist is more of an incentive for rich people than continuing to live on a planet worth exploring, then they're prioritizing spending money on engineering that is useless to the actual problems, while the actual problems get leftovers, if anything. That's just trickle-down economics all over again.
I get it, I do. My dad grew up with the moon landing and wanted to go to space. But sometimes you have to fix your roof before you go on vacation or you won't have a house to come back to.
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Ah, yes, moon tourism
#Krauss is that you?#umineko#umineko no naku koro ni#umineko when they cry#new york times#moon tourism#space tourism
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Okay but seriously, space tourism needs to stop immediately. There’s already so much debate about weather or not it’s okay for governments to put their space junk at Point Nemo, and we all know that private corporations basically fly under the radar when it comes to this kind of shit, and are almost certainly dumping there (if they’re not leaving it to just become space junk, which is a whole other issue)
They don’t even want the ISS to be dumped there due to growing concerns, and it’s disgusting that the Uber-rich can just go hang out in space for 10 minutes with absolutely no regard for the consequences.
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The California-based firm, which had already filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States in early April, has auctioned off its main assets, recovering just over $36m. That figure is barely 1% of the value the company reached in late 2021 on Wall Street, when it was valued at $3.5 billion.
hahahahahaha
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Space Perspective building balloons in Titusville to elevate tourists to the edge of space
No wonder our prices here are skyrocketing (see what I did there?) 😉
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