Sunday, July 02, 2023

NYT--last moments of Titan passengers and crew--warning--graphic-disturbing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/us/titan-submersible-passengers.html
Drowned by greed and their own money.
Rush kept going in spite of repeated problems and warnings.
The best would be to shut down this sort of thing and set up strict monetary and scientific/engineering controls.
It may be "their money, their risk" but what about the surviving family members?
I could not read more than a few pages.
kmk
7-2-2023

British Council publication, including mention of my father U Kaung's MA thesis and my brother U Thaw Kaung's essay on our (more like his) UK ties--

since other than 3 years as a child and a few days in 2008 as an adult, I have not spent much time there, while I have been 40+ years in the...