The Off Topic Topic

[Josephus]

Weird random idea that came to me.
You know how in star trek the translator seems to be really selective with some main species. Keeping significant native words intact. I think strange new worlds does this with the vulcan word for fiance?

Well. How about this as a part of an episode plot. A species with whom they have communication issues. Translator keeps failing on random words.
Turns out they're just really pretentious and don't accept the translator can do their language justice "what was I doing? The closest human translation would be having a shower"

Or "I come in peace" translates as "Fondle my buttocks"

[mongers]

Weird random idea that came to me.
You know how in star trek the translator seems to be really selective with some main species. Keeping significant native words intact. I think strange new worlds does this with the vulcan word for fiance?

Well. How about this as a part of an episode plot. A species with whom they have communication issues. Translator keeps failing on random words.
Turns out they're just really pretentious and don't accept the translator can do their language justice "what was I doing? The closest human translation would be having a shower"

Or "I come in peace" translates as "Fondle my buttocks"

Aren't those nearly one and the same thing?

[Duque de Bragança]

Weird random idea that came to me.
You know how in star trek the translator seems to be really selective with some main species. Keeping significant native words intact. I think strange new worlds does this with the vulcan word for fiance?

Well. How about this as a part of an episode plot. A species with whom they have communication issues. Translator keeps failing on random words.
Turns out they're just really pretentious and don't accept the translator can do their language justice "what was I doing? The closest human translation would be having a shower"

Or "I come in peace" translates as "Fondle my buttocks"

Aren't those nearly one and the same thing?

Don't think so, if it's the Dolph Lundgren film we are talking about.

[Jacob]

Mini-submarine doing sighseeing of the Titanic has apparently gone missing. It's about $250,000 per person to go.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic-submarine-missing-search-1.6881095

[Josquius]

Mini-submarine doing sighseeing of the Titanic has apparently gone missing. It's about $250,000 per person to go.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic-submarine-missing-search-1.6881095

Doesn't seem mentioned there but I guess this is the Soviet museum piece?

[grumbler]

Mini-submarine doing sighseeing of the Titanic has apparently gone missing. It's about $250,000 per person to go.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/titanic-submarine-missing-search-1.6881095

Doesn't seem mentioned there but I guess this is the Soviet museum piece?

I'm not sure what "this" is, but if you mean the sub, it was completed in 2016 specifically for the role it is playing.

[Tonitrus]

Undersea travel/exploration is probably only beat out by space travel/exploration in cost and danger...but I am still disappointed that Seaquest probably oversold the potential sexiness of undersea expansion. 

[Threviel]

Super wealthy people go thrill seeking at a mass grave... Too bad about the crew of the submersible and I really hope that it's an electrical failure rather than a mechanical and that they are either on their way up or already bobbing on the surface somewhere.

[The Brain]

I don't have a problem with grave tourism. Many major tourist attractions are graves.

I don't know how the death of a crew member or a passenger would be differently sad. And while some or all of the passengers on this trip may have been super wealthy, many middle class people can cough up $250,000 for a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience connected to something they have a passionate interest in.

[garbon]

I'm unclear why outlets like the BBC are running this as a top story, live. We all get to participate in a death watch?

[Josquius]

I never got the popularity of the Titanic in general.

[Threviel]

I don't have a problem with grave tourism. Many major tourist attractions are graves.

I don't know how the death of a crew member or a passenger would be differently sad. And while some or all of the passengers on this trip may have been super wealthy, many middle class people can cough up $250,000 for a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience connected to something they have a passionate interest in.

Every unnecessary death is a tragedy, it's just that I don't care about very rich people putting themselves in situations they are not very prepared for just for the thrill of it. Kind of like Everest with the tourists and sherpas. Every unnecessary death is horrible, but some choose to be there without good reason and some make a living off it.

[Sheilbh]

I'm unclear why outlets like the BBC are running this as a top story, live. We all get to participate in a death watch?

Yeah I'm not sure it should be as prominent as it is - but I think it's basically the same the Thais kids in a cave or the Chilean miners.

If they can be saved it will be a triumph of human ingenuity. If not I suppose it's a tragic human interest story.

[garbon]

I'm unclear why outlets like the BBC are running this as a top story, live. We all get to participate in a death watch?

Yeah I'm not sure it should be as prominent as it is - but I think it's basically the same the Thais kids in a cave or the Chilean miners.

If they can be saved it will be a triumph of human ingenuity. If not I suppose it's a tragic human interest story.

With a group that is numerically smaller and less intrinsically sympathetic.

[Josquius]

Also a top bbc story. Global monkey torture ring
Wtf is wrong with people.