Ok so I was curious about that fucking deathtrap and I noticed a couple... oddities.
ALTAlright so this thing is pretty stupid; I'm not at all familiar with submersible vessels, But it activated a sleeper gene in my skull from my time being obsessed with a certain video game.
So I decided to check the promotional page for the contraption.
![A screenshot from the oceangate webpage promotional blurb regarding the titan. It reads: Titan 5-Person Submersible | 4,000 Meters "Titan" is a Cyclops-class manned submersible designed to take five people to depths of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet) for site survey and inspection, research and data collection, film and media [...]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/ed74901557b1f75f6167c8fe31b4f8cb/9d4d1506a349621d-89/s1280x1920/f6ae5348f07d5ad0d1828eb650206af9e873b585.png)
ALT![A screenshot from the OceanGate webpage promotional blurb regarding the titan. It reads: Development and Innovation Project Cyclops Project Cyclops was born out of OceanGate’s appreciation for the complexity of subsea environments and the need for a diverse set of tools and technology to address operational requirements below 500 meters. Through strategic partnerships, OceanGate applies the latest [...]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/b4c57095cfa668ca8c0fc513143df337/9d4d1506a349621d-e1/s1280x1920/a4d8de5359a32b443c9a91f2070c9e50f0348389.png)
ALT(I'm going to put aside the second image, where they state the previous shit they hammered out had a 500 meter depth limit tops (i.e. that they, at best, made something that could get to 500 meters then decided that meant they could handle making something that could handle 8 times that). Thinking about the fact they brag about this so brazenly hurts my head. Back to the topic at hand.)
Ok so google shows "cyclops class" is not. a thing that exists. But it sure is funny they keep saying that word. Again maybe it's just my stupid video game brain but that doesn't seem to be used in this context anywhere else. Then I saw the renders.
ALT
ALTOk the newer one on the left really loves that "single eye" thing and looks silly enough, but the older one is.... ok. I give up. That's Subnautica. That's Subnautica For Real.
ALTThey built their goddamn suicide death trap based on a submarine in a videoed game.
ALTNo Fucking way. There's no fucking way. There's no fucking chance that--
ALTI'm speechless.
Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.
good night to the least favorite child, to the third friend who has to sit alone, to the one nobody makes eye contact with, to those who don’t know how to pet cats, to the quiet one and the really really quiet one, to those who get interrupted, to the one person who left early because it makes no difference. goodnight to the forgotten ones. good night to the side characters.
fruit-in-jars 101 by stacynguyen
"What is jam? What makes something authentically jam? Can bacon really be made into jam?
It was all very Existentialist.
The answer to those questions is a bit complicated and non-definitive. The U.S. FDA has defined jam and jelly in very specific and mathematical terms (such-and-such percentage of juice to fruit to water to sugar = jam/jelly); it also uses jam and preserve interchangeably, for the most part. While interesting, the FDA’s definitions did not matter much to me because the FDA wasn’t really using the terms in the way that we usually use the terms. Also, the FDA wasn’t comprehensive in its definitions. It didn’t tackle other fruit spreads like marmalades or curds, for instance.
The more I looked into, the more I thought, dude, this information would make a good infographic."
Once upon a time, fruits could not be obtained at just any season, so humans had to come up with a way to contain the fruits for the dark fruitless days.
