• Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systemsEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Some innocent people died so it’s sad stuff, but I can’t get past the fact that they named a top heavy weirdly balanced yacht the Bayesian.

    Well on the bright side naval engineers will be able to update their drivers priors after this perfectly engineered unsinkable sink sa–

    “This boat had definite shortcomings that kind of uniquely made it vulnerable to what happened.”

    “people would take photos of it constantly because it was so crazy-looking in comparison to other boats.”

    Philipp Luke, a Dutch naval architect, started violently shaking his head. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t do that.”

    “When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe it,” said Mr. Roberts, the naval architect. “It made no sense to me.”

    “Technology moved on,” Mr. Costantino said.

    Oh.

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      I don’t know. I feel like the prior for putting tech billionaires on massive single-masted yachts with high waterlines and low air vents is still pretty positive. This is only one bad voyage; consider how many trips provide evidence that this is a good plan.

      Much like Titan, which had several successful voyages to the Titanic that other billionaires should seek to emulate by using the exact same sorta-procen design and construction that Titan did.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        Still think this is a bit expensive, both on cost and collateral damage. Popularizing being your own helicopter pilot among the mega rich is a tried and true tactic.

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      The boat wasnt called that at first, the guy who ordered it gave it a different name. Guess he sold it as the weirdest HP assassination play