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    1. Christopher Hooks‏Verified account @cd_hooks 8 Jul 2018

      elon musk's thai cave submarine is... absurd. it doesn't make any goddamn sensepic.twitter.com/ntZo2Tghv1

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    2. Christopher Hooks‏Verified account @cd_hooks 8 Jul 2018

      naturally every publication in the world has written about it. the system workspic.twitter.com/DL3mD3cMVj

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @cd_hooks

      I can't decide if this is a case of nobody-tells-the-obvious-truths-to-a-billionnaire or clever-as-a-fox publicity scheme exploiting extreme media gullibility. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      1 reply 0 retweets 22 likes
    4. Christian Sieber‏ @Kazanir 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @cd_hooks

      It has been 100% the former so far...

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @Kazanir @cd_hooks

      Dunno. I don't mind the impulse to help or to innovate at all, but the widespread gullible media coverage does make me wonder if the face-value stupidity to any domain expert is actually not as obvious? And nobody around rich people voices these things? Or, look, free publicity?

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    6. Christopher Hooks‏Verified account @cd_hooks 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @Kazanir

      i have no idea of course but i suspect it's totally without guile. the media is letting him be Dr. Quest — he gets a rapturous reception for whatever he proposes, like the hyperloop, and it must be an enormous ego boost

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @cd_hooks @Kazanir

      Seriously every billionaire needs a truth-teller or two—not sure if they’d listen, but it would at least save the ones who’d like to not come across this badly. (Then again press coverage was inexplicably fawning or just reprinted PR releases with zero critical analysis).

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @cd_hooks @Kazanir

      I’m not now embedded in cave diving but have enough cave and diving experience (separately!) to immediately see the face-value stupidity. From what I can tell, the cave expert community responded with fear—that a star-struck govt official would let him try and likely kill people.

      2 replies 3 retweets 18 likes
    9. Christopher Hooks‏Verified account @cd_hooks 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @zeynep @Kazanir

      i haven't caved in years but the thought of lugging that man-sized torpedo through even a mildly challenging environment makes my head hurt

      2 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jul 2018
      Replying to @cd_hooks @Kazanir

      And we’ve already had an out-of-gas death—he was hauling a tank. May well have miscalculated the extra exertion. Had buddy—solid professional divers but not cavers. Alas. Also, there may well be room for rescue apparatus innovation. If one is serious, quiet is the way to go imo.

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