Super smiley billionaire, Cherie Curie look alike, and planet-raping airline owner Richa– Oh, sorry: Sir Richard Branson keeps reminding us how positively brutish everyone is being to the planet. (Why, he was even a “Hero for the Environment” according to TIME magazine!)
Pfffft — I saved that kitten from a tree and captured those bank robbers this morning all by myself. And I single-handedly stopped-dropped-and-rolled that anti-fur protester who set himself on fire in Portland on Wednesday. No one called me a hero.
Jerks.
But check this out: Not too long ago Sir Richard was right here. (Google: richard branson save oceans — and Deceiver is the second link. How ’bout that?)
I guess all of those awful ocean problems are fixed now, because there’s this:
A £415,000 carbon-fibre winged prototype, called the Necker Nymph, is already being developed that can submerge to depths of 130ft (40m).
Sir Richard told The Sun: “It is very similar to an airplane flying in the sea. You can literally do a loop-the-loop.” The Nymph will be moored on Sir Richard’s private Caribbean island, Necker.
He said: “We hope to have submarines dotted throughout the world.
What he really wants is to take people to the dark depths of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, which is 36,000ft deep. All in the name of science, I’m sure. Nothing with commercial appeal ever comes from science-y type things.
And besides: What better way to protect a pristine part of the ocean, which only two humans in history have ever visited, than shipping a bunch of tourists back and forth in a cool James Bond villain underwater craft? I give it two years before Starbucks opens a shop down there. Heck — it happened to the Great Wall of China.
And no I don’t remember the names of those two guys. What am I, the CIA?
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Why not build a submarine, shaped like, I don’t know, a SUBMARINE? Maybe he’ll be onboard when it is crushed due to the massive pressures at the bottom of the trench.
Hee. “Necker Nymph” was my nickname in high school.
I don’t know what a Necker Nymph is but I wanna give it the best 30 seconds of its life.
THAT was funny, Beige.
Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard, on the bathyscape ‘Trieste.’
Oh come on. Beige. It hurts when I laugh so hard lasagna comes out my nose. No fair.
I’m well read on Richard Branson, and doing business with him leaves a trail of complaints from Drugging musicians to get them to sign contracts to deceiving the man who brought him the Virgin Airlines deal on a handshake the night before it consumated…. and these are the parts he admitted in his own autobiography.
As the owner of some of the most polluting companies on earth Virgin Records (there is no longer any green argument for plastic distribution of music) and Virgin Airlines (one of the worst abusers in gallons per passenger mile achieved), I’ve always been convinced Branson is an eco-pretender of convenience.
So is being an eco-pretender of convenience better than being a hypocrite?
Sure… right up to the point where he tries to tell other people what to do.
Branson’s another do as I say, not as I do Billionaire.
And for the record, dry subs that can hit 130 feet are a dime a dozen.
Having seen “Das Boot,” “The Hunt For Red October,” etc., I’ve come to realize I really, really don’t belong under the sea.
Besides, there are sea monsters and non-extinct dinosaurs in the Marianas Trench!
Having seen Shark Attack 3: Megalodon I’ve also come to realize I have no business in the ocean.
Screw that. Having seen Richard Branson: Megalodon, I’ve reached the same conclusion. Old boy could take a leg off with those things.
Way to go on creating a way to destroy one of nature’s wonders. When will commercialism stop destroying Mother Nature?! They keep thinking of new ways everyday.
Prince Charles fancies himself a “Green” dandy, and apparently Branson’s eco-hypocrite activities are simply a way for him to buddy up to the Royal family.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1248885/Virgin-royalty-Richard-Bransons-children-forged-intriguing-social-alliance-young-Royals-But-Daddy-pulling-strings.html