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> Is there some great unmet need to send people to extreme depths, especially when unmanned probes can do most necessar work nowadays? Two reasons: 1) they ha
by qayxc 3y ago
> Is there some great unmet need to send people to extreme depths, especially when unmanned probes can do most necessar work nowadays?
Two reasons:
1) they had plenty of paying customers, so there was a demand
2) the CEO wanted to be remembered as an innovator, views this as being an explorer, and wanted to inspire people (he said so in interviews)
- c-hendricks 3y ago> “I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” Rush said in the 2-year-old YouTube interview. “I think it was Gen. MacArthur said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’ And, you know, I’ve broken some rules to make this. I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me, the carbon fiber and titanium — there’s a rule you don’t do that. Well, I did.” And see what happens?