Mount Everest & other Feats of Endurance

It’s the kind of thing when you are a billionaire you would might pay somebody 250k to go down and get the footage.

I see it’s only his third expedition.

The batteries on those remote controllers don’t last long

Yes there is one window on it

Out of curiosity was there many Irish survivors of the titanic? I don’t recall hearing about too many and it’s the sort of thing in Ireland you’d Nearly be famous for or end up on the late late show a dozen times.

Remember that show where they all lived in a submarine and there was a talking dolphin

And he had a 100% success rate til now

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If this one gets back up he’ll surely have to put an asterisk beside it you’d feel

Daaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrwiiiiiiiiiiiiin!

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There’s always great human interest in these tales of missing/trapped people like the Thai football team trapped in a cave, the Chilean miners, the children of the Amazonian plane crash and so on.

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Aye, and they come and go, unlike all them migrants who we have to spend every day ignoring.

RTÉ fair need to update their “less that 40 hours of breathable air” story. I know it’s still technically true but surely they could give us a more relevant figure

A British Navy rescue expert reckoned it was wishful thinking to think that an aircraft would pick up the sound of four fellas banging on the inside of a carbon fibre drum 4 kilometres beneath the surface of the sea. He reckoned the hull imploded early on in the dive and it was all over in seconds.

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That would be my hypothesis on it alright

I saw that aright.

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I was thinking that myself, they must have some serious tech to hear that.

But then again they might do.

Did they buy the yoke off Elon Musk or what?

More than likely a Russian sub trolling them