Stockton Rush

Yeah.

Which we will come back to because I wrote a lot of notes in mine about Stockton Rush because this is the first time we've watched it since the Titan submersible has happened.

Yes.

And then we see, what is his actual name? You said, I always forget Rian Johnson is in this, which is not his name.

He shows up on this thing.

Evil

billionaire slash fictional Stockton Rush.

Yes.

Experts concluded that shortly after it lost contact with the Polar Prince, the Titan imploded under immense pressure, almost 400 times more than at the ocean surface.

So, what caused it? Usually, submersible vessels are made from titanium or steel, however, OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush, decided to go with a carbon fiber made hull to save money, even though experts warned it was susceptible to folding under deep ocean pressure.

Rush even went on record saying he'd broken the rule of sub design.

Safe to say that rule breaking didn't end too well.

But as deeply philosophical and existentially concerning as the atrophy of human intuition is, the consequences of this optimize-everything mindset can be far more immediate, violent, and devastating when applied to the physical sciences.

Let's talk about Stockton Rush and the Ocean Gate Tragedy.

This is the most sobering case study in the absolute limits of the disruption ideology.

In 2022, Stockton Rush, the founder and CEO of OceanGate, was publicly defending his company's deeply unconventional, highly controversial engineering philosophy regarding their deep sea subversibles.

In the aviation and maritime industries, CEOs traditionally boast about their rigorous safety protocols, their redundancies, and their caution.

Which makes sense because lives are on the line.

It's just horrific.

The destruction was instantaneous.

That is so much louder than I thought.

Just to be safe, I took inspiration from my hero, Stockton Rush.

Oh, God.

And covered my pressure vessel in epoxy and then put it inside the handle.

It

was like Stockton Rush or something really weird.

in something like that.

We'll have to double check who won, but either way, there's going to be an exciting one.