I’ve got my vote for the guy who thought carbon fiber would do great under pressure after being told “no” by tons of experts in the field.
This is a great example of why “It was fine last time.” is not an excepted safety standard in (most) engineering.
The Titan sub was a private vessel hosting visits to the Titanic wreck at $250k per ticket.
Its main cylinder was composed of carbon fiber, which goes against naval engineers’ recommendations that submarines have bodies made of steel (or any material known for its compression strength).
Not only generally, but the owner of the sub was repeatedly warned by engineers that the vessel would not sustain the pressure of the depth they were diving to.
Given that it’d already killed someone, I’m going to nominate the second guy who thought he could cowboy criticality testing with the Demon Core at Los Alamos.
By coincidence, at this moment I am camped on a mountain overlooking the Los Alamos NL.
“Win stupid games, earn stupid prizes”?
BTW, I think it’s play stupid games…
I hope that fits the bill, but so far the only consequence of betraying Wagner is that Wagner drove to Belarus with few apparent repercussions.
There is this guy who killed 40,000 elephants because he thought it’d improve the environment.
Anyways, it was a poor decision, which harmed the natural regrowth of grasses in Africa. And probably contributed to drought and poor soil conditions there. Sadly, he has been regarded as an expert and heralded as an environmentalist par excellance. So, less of a stupid prize for him than a poor prize for humanity writ-large.
I think the saying is, “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.” You can edit post titles on Lemmy.
