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Basel Musharbash's avatar

This is really incisive analysis and a unique angle.

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Shire Jansen's avatar

There were also criticisms about the Coast Guard response, that I didn't feel were warranted or valid, the cost of those resources will not be billed to Oceangate but it did make me wonder, what response would be expected or given with the high dollar private space flights people are taking? Is Space Force/Farse going to launch an attempted rescue mission if one of these go amiss? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/science/space/blue-origin-ticket-cost.html

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Elizabeth Tai's avatar

Thank you for writing this. I was honestly taken aback by how ghoulish some of the posts were. Just because someone is rich, doesn't make them less human. Yes, I didn't agree that such crazy sums should be spent on such a frivilous activity, but when you think of it, it did pay the salaries of people who also needed it.

The world is rarely so simple.

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Wendy Zadeh's avatar

I agree suggesting total tweet time and such is because this was a story that was unfolding where we thought maybe the outcome would surprise. Not the same story as migrants.

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John Hopkins's avatar

That's a good, largely-uncomfortable, mirror you're holding up. Thanks for doing it.

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Emby's avatar

Such a good piece

It's not surprising that people are drawn to what we often call "disaster porn" stories like the Titan - attending to the decisions that cause other people to die in terrible ways is something we're wired to do, to keep ourselves alive. The fact that there were *few* people on the Titan, with the power to make any sort of decisions (as opposed to the refugee boat which had many people, probably with their choices constrained in ways ours generally aren't) actually makes it a better learning case.

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Stephanie Gail Eagleson's avatar

This is really good, Laura. Thank you.

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