why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Assertion Contradicted
Pogue: Titanic Expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet Fully Approved Titan's Design
“Thirdly, probably the most famous, one of the most famous living Titanic explorers in the world, P.H. Nargele was on board as an Ocean Gate employee.
He had been looking over the design, construction, and testing of the Titan submersible and fully approved.”
Assertion Supported
Pogue: OceanGate took hours to notify Coast Guard about missing Titan
“Why did it take them so long To notify the Coast Guard that the sub had gone missing. I think it was a number of hours.”
Assertion Contradicted
Pogue: OceanGate's Titan Completed 20 Dives to Titanic Depths
“Secondly, it had made 20 uneventful dives to the Titanic depths and back.
Without a blink.”
Assertion Supported
Pogue: OceanGate shut off ship Wi-Fi when Titan lost contact
“During the time that the sub was lost on the seafloor, the CBS crew, and actually everybody else, was on the bridge of the ship with the control room people which is primarily Wendy Rush, Stockton's wife, ran the comms, and the various experts and scientists, …”
Assertion Supported
Pogue: Titan had a 16-hour dissolving hook to surface automatically
“And one of these backup systems would work even if everyone inside was unconscious or dead. It was a time-release, sixteen-hour, dissolving sandbag hook.”
Assertion Supported
Pogue: Titan hull is a 5-inch-thick carbon fiber cylinder
“The hull, of course, is a carbon fiber cylinder, five inches thick, and you may not drill anything into carbon fiber. You may not interrupt that surface.”