Overlooked Round-up
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Science
- 700,000-year-old bone discovery confirms existence of three-foot-tall early 'hobbit' humans - Euronews. Thanks RedEye9.
- Heavy Rain Just Gifted Science One Of The Oldest Dinosaurs Ever Found - IFLScience.
Media
Creature Features
RedEye9 wrote on Aug 7, 2024, 18:14:On the previous model of the Titan, there was cracking and popping that forced the crew to surface. No way to prove that was the case here, but that would be extremely nerve-wracking. No black box recorder was on board.
The family of a French explorer who died in theTitan submersible implosion has filed a $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew experienced “terror and mental anguish” before the disaster
I’m guessing they won’t use Dale Molé as a character witness
The former director of the US Navy for undersea medicine and radiation health, said they would have died instantly and painlessly by the force under the depth of the sea.
“It would have been so sudden, that they wouldn’t even have known that there was a problem, or what happened to them. It’s like being here one minute, and then the switch is turned off. You’re alive one millisecond, and the next millisecond you’re dead,” he said.