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Does this qualify for a Darwin award?

• routerl 3y ago
  Yesterday, people involved with the Darwin awards were saying "let's wait 24 hours". For the pilot and co-founder, yes, he deserves the award. For the passengers, I predict lawsuits. But apparently the contract included a clause about accidental death. The guy who brought his son also probably deserves a Darwin award.
  • jacquesm 3y ago
    This is not an accident though, this is gross negligence and I somewhat doubt you can contract your way out of that. An accident is when something unexpectedly goes wrong. This end result was baked into the design and it was merely a question of how many times you could cycle that hull before it would implode, not if it would. Death lottery.
    • routerl 3y ago
      I think you're right. There are proven ways to do this without the fatal result, and this company ignored many of the industry best practices. I look forward to seeing this play out in court, because it has the potential to create a really good precedent.
• ilyt 3y ago
  Probably. Ignore industry practices while bragging about doing same people space companies do (which deal with 0 to 1 atm of pressure), firing guy yelling that's unsafe, shooting potshots at veterans of industry being just not hip enough. And then conning few other people to go into something that looked like what mythbusters built in a week (and if THEY did it it would probably not implode...)