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Should have been tested with poor people first
Everyone was drinking Kool-Aid and saying how cool they were with a Sony PlayStation,” he told me. “And I said at the time, ‘Does Sony know that it’s been used for this application? Because, you know, this is not what it was designed for.’ And now you have the hand controller talking to a Wi-Fi unit, which is talking to a black box, which is talking to the sub’s thrusters. There were multiple points of failure.” The system ran on Bluetooth, according to Rush. But, McCallum continued, “every sub in the world has hardwired controls for a reason—that if the signal drops out, you’re not ed.”Soon afterward, Rush asked OceanGate’s director of finance and administration whether she’d like to take over as chief submersible pilot. “It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting,” she told me. She added that several of the engineers were in their late teens and early twenties, and were at one point being paid fifteen dollars an hour. Without Lochridge around, “I could not work for Stockton,” she said. “I did not trust him.” As soon as she was able to line up a new job, she quit.https://www.newyorker.com/news/a-rep...ting-to-happenMcCallum tried to reason with Rush directly. “You are wanting to use a prototype un-classed technology in a very hostile place,” he e-mailed. “As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk.”
Rush replied four days later, saying that he had “grown tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation and new entrants from entering their small existing market.” He understood that his approach “flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation,” he wrote. “We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often. I take this as a serious personal insult.”
Should have been tested with poor people first
Did they learn nothing from Jurassic Park?
sounds like he tried, but the poor person was like "nah we good"
Think about it, they used a PlayStation controller.
Everyone knows they were cutting corners and should have used the industry recognized XBox controller!
You press down, press forward, and then press downward by accident and boom, game over!
Stockton Rush () was the near perfect blend of old money failson privilege and techbro hubris. Some other techbro will have to make another in a lab to improve on him.
The an submersible and Hublot watches - things for people with more money than sense.
The problem wasn't the controller. It was using carbon fiber. Every time carbon fiber is stressed it loses a little of its strength. Stress it over and over like they did and it eventually degrades enough *poof* it implodes. All the other submersible are anium which doesn't degrade with stress.
not just a playstation controller but a logitech ps controller, dude was so cheap he went off brand
This dude had a master plan. Put together the cheapest human death trap possible and convince dumb people with money to ride it. If he had only not gone cheap on the actual hull he probably would had become super rich off of this
With an implosion at that depth those dudes didn't even know what hit them. The carbon fiber alone would have been like being surrounded by claymore mines going off and the pressure would have pulped what was left.
Why is this in the political forum?
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You can criticize the guy all you want but it is this kind of innovation and entrepreneurship that will lead to better subs for billionaire thrill seekers
So they died heroes figuring out what was stupid.
Now the next guy knows not to use carbon fiber and instead start with...
Ultimately Stockton Rush was a hero doing the lord's work and it's sad the company will probably not continue in his innovative footsteps.
Statues incoming
We need more Stockton Rushes to murder more billionaires. This movement can't die with him.
It's a Logitech F-310 controller for PC. It's literally the cheapest controller you can buy in a real store as opposed to Wish.com. I made the mistake of buying one a few years ago when I sold my PS4 (was using that controller for PC gaming) and it was so bad I returned it to Best Buy within two hours. Terrible buttons requiring over the top hard presses and awful latency.
He should have tried this move to gain glorious victory over the crushing depths…
Instead, it finished him!!!!
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