Am I just deceived? I think I might love him?

  • EightBitBlood@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Like the 3000 scientists, engineers, and designers that helped him build that yacht for research?

    That collaboration started with the design and build. Newell joined forces with YTMC, Y.CO, the Oceanco Design team, Lateral Naval Architects, Mark Berryman Design, and thousands of designers, engineers, and other experts to bring his dream vessel to fruition. The names of the nearly 3,000 contributors are listed near the main staircase, in fact. “It is this level of collaboration that sets Leviathan apart from anything we’ve built before,” Oceanco CEO Marcel Onkenhout said in a statement.

    Is there more efficient ways to spend this money on research? Sure. But don’t equate this effort as meaningless just because it’s not perfect. It’s a great place to be a researcher, but it’s still for research.

    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      to bring his dream vessel to fruition.

      God how much money was wasted on havingthousands of people work on the design of his vanity project?

      Yes, it’s better than other vanity projects, but it is still a wasteful vanity project.