Robot Finds "Debris Field" On Ocean Floor In Search for Missing Sub

It looks like the worst is confirmed. Almost.

"Debris field" found near Titanic in search for missing sub, U.S. Coast Guard says

By Alex Sundby

A deep-sea robot found a "debris field" while searching for a sub that went missing while carrying five people to the wreckage of the Titanic, the U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday. Experts were evaluating the discovery by the ROV, or remotely operated vehicle.

"A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic," officials said.

Coast Guard officials were expected to discuss the findings during a news conference Thursday afternoon.

In addition to the underwater robots, search planes and ships have been deployed to the northern Atlantic Ocean in the hopes of finding the lost 21-foot sub Titan.

The left is in full psychopathic gloat mode, celebrating the deaths of five strangers who never did a single thing to them.

Elie Mystal, as J.J. Sefton pointed out in the Morning Briefing, wants to put his enemies on a doomed sub like he's herding undesirables on to trains.

The Nation justice correspondent and MSNBC contributor Elie Mystal suggested Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito be taken on a trip to see the Titanic in a Wednesday tweet.

Mystal said a rich elite should take Alito -- the author of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade -- to see the Titanic, the historic ship which hit an iceberg and sank to the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean April 15, 1912.

"Next time some rich white person wants to take Sam Alito on an expensive trip, please take him to see the Titanic," Mystal wrote.

Via Instapundit, Ben Dreyfuss points out that people who exult in the deaths of others are actual diagnosable psychopaths.

He points out that empathy -- an aversion to the suffering of others; feeling that suffering yourself -- is a feature of all normal, sane humans' psychology.

But many on the left don't have this -- and insist that they're all the more righteous for being, essentially, Blade Runner Replicants.

The abnormal psychopaths, refusing to admit that they are indeed psychopaths, would argue that their empathy machines are, in fact, the ones that are doing the purest evolutionary function. They are caring about people like them because a world that cares about people like them is easier to live in for people like them, and they are a person like them. History has shown us that this can lead to very bad things like war and death and prejudice and those travel adapters you have to bring with you when you go to Europe, but there is a bit of a certain "ok, sure, in some limited ways," you have to hand them.

But one of the defining characteristics of normal people is that our empathy machines, fortunately for society, are not so singularly transactional. We care about people even when it isn't immediately obvious that there is something in it for us.

The normal people on Monday did what the normal people do. But the abnormal people didn't do that.

They heard the news, read the stories, took in all of the information that made you sad, and their first reaction was: anyone who can afford a $250k tourist trip deserves to die.

The New Republic suggested that the fact that the CEO of the submersible company donated to Republicans made him deserving of a watery grave. (And I guess the four other people who died deserved that grave as well, just because.)

Public campaign finance records indicate that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate currently stuck on the missing Titan submersible that was running a tourist expedition of the Titanic wreck, has been a consistent Republican donor over the years.

Even Snopes is using the tragedy as a convenient club with which to smite its enemies on the right.

Leftist obsessives began twittering that Elon Musk might be responsible for the submarine's loss -- because the company used Starlink.

TRUE!, said Snopes. Our leftist Twitter obsessives are right again!

As David Strom points out, submarines can't use Starlink for communications. See, they're underwater.

The obvious answer is "No!" The company might be [using Starlink], but the submersible? That is literally impossible, given physics. Even the US government uses highly sophisticated technology such as ELF waves or acoustical means to communicate below the surface of the ocean, and for high bandwidth communications cables must be used.

That they would even hint that Starlink could somehow be involved is absurd, and anybody with the slightest knowledge of how satellite internet works obviously knows that. Starlink doesn't even work if a tree branch gets in the way of the signal; miles of ocean between the submersible and the satellite would obviously prevent any signal from reaching the sub.

And yet Snopes -- official "fact-checkers" used by the media and social media monopolies to decide what stories must be throttled and which users must be deplatformed as "misinformation" spreaders -- checked all the "facts" and pronounced this T R U E.

I know what you're thinking -- "Ace, Snopes isn't a hyperpolitical organization! They're official media fact-checkers, Ace! The media has certified them as having no more political bias than the media itself! The media, Ace! The media! Surely they can't all be a bunch of slipshod slapdash know-nothings whose 'fact' checking ability goes no further than quickie searches on Twitter, all envenomed with partisan spite!"

I know, I know -- it's all too much to process. And yet. And yet.

posted by Ace at 01:10 PM

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