Titanic tourist sub missing

[MickiQ]

I heard someone that on that there talk radio the other day while i was in a cab questioning how long it'll before we have a 9/11 theme hotel (apparently there's a titanic hotel where you can relive it all). How soon is too soon?

There's this in Orlando (the Q's visited it on our first visit there). I'm not sure why Orlando is getting in on it since it wasn't going there.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition | Titanic Museum in Orlando

Orlando's Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition features more than 300 artifacts, costumed actors, full-scale room recreations, and gala dinners. Book now!

titanicorlando.com

I believe though I haven't been that there is a Titanic exhibition in Belfast which is more understandable. There is a certain glamourous mystique about the Titanic that is missing from a lot of other historical events
Mrs Q in particular was eager to see it. If there was a safe trip down to the site (and we could afford it) it wouldn't surprise me if she was up for it.
There is one bit of the exhibit where you walk along a mockup of the deck which has been chilled to the same air temperature of the Atlantic at the time and sight of the sinking. Mrs Q reckoned it made it feel like she had been there. Middle Q (age 8) already showing signs of her cynical approach to life just complained about it being cold and wanted to know when we would get back outside in the sunshine.

 

[Ax^]

randomly if you want to get a true titanic fix you have to go to Northumberland as the white swan in had some interior fitting from the HMS olympic

 

[equationgirl]

For so many years the final resting place of the Titanic was unknown. Decades afterwards, it was a ship that hit an iceberg and disappeared. Given the depths involved explorers had to wait for undersea tech to catch up. I have a book that was written just before it was found and there was a lot of myth, conjecture and conspiracy theories around it. Not helped of course by the desire of the White Star line to try to brush the whole thing under the rug.

So there was mystery and intrigue right from the start. Then the wreckage was found - which also vindicated a lot of people who said that it broke into two - and James Cameron made his epic film, with the sinking of the ship happening in real time towards the end (moving and chilling at the same time).

There's many other ships that have been lost, arguably none as mysterious as the Titanic.

 

[A380]

There's this in Orlando (the Q's visited it on our first visit there). I'm not sure why Orlando is getting in on it since it wasn't going there.

Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition | Titanic Museum in Orlando

Orlando's Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition features more than 300 artifacts, costumed actors, full-scale room recreations, and gala dinners. Book now!

titanicorlando.com

I believe though I haven't been that there is a Titanic exhibition in Belfast which is more understandable. There is a certain glamourous mystique about the Titanic that is missing from a lot of other historical events
Mrs Q in particular was eager to see it. If there was a safe trip down to the site (and we could afford it) it wouldn't surprise me if she was up for it.
There is one bit of the exhibit where you walk along a mockup of the deck which has been chilled to the same air temperature of the Atlantic at the time and sight of the sinking. Mrs Q reckoned it made it feel like she had been there. Middle Q (age 8) already showing signs of her cynical approach to life just complained about it being cold and wanted to know when we would get back outside in the sunshine.

I quite liked the Titanic exhibit in Belfast on the site of the Harland and Wolf yards that built it. It’s very odd as it’s quite a big ‘museum’ that for obvious reasons has very very few actual artefacts…


Trivia fans: the generator sets for Titanic were made in Bedford in the next road over from where I used to live.

 

[planetgeli]

There's many other ships that have been lost, arguably none as mysterious as the Titanic.

What about all that Bermuda Triangle stuff when I was a kid? That fascinated me when I was about 8. Don't remember anything happening there for a while now. Or is that part of the alien cover-up?

 

[Ax^]

nah that was dark biden again

 

[equationgirl]

What about all that Bermuda Triangle stuff when I was a kid? That fascinated me when I was about 8. Don't remember anything happening there for a while now. Or is that part of the alien cover-up?

I think that's compelling in a different kind of way, it affects it just ships but planes too. I watched a programme about it recently, there were several theories including aliens (quickly disregarded).

 

[equationgirl]

Going back to materials, materials of all kinds don't like extremes (pressure, temperature, depth) and they certainly don't like cycling between ambient and extremes. So I am very wary of something like carbon fibre going to deep cold high pressure places and back up to the surface. Did they evaluate the material changes at a microscopic level to see if there were changes or how repeatedly cycling between ambient and the extreme affected the material?

Why was a non conventional design chosen?

I once worked with people who thought that decades of established engineering understanding were there to be overturned because innovation meant doing things that were different in spite of established principles to the contrary.

Spoiler alert: trying to redesign something that was done in a specific way for specific sensible engineering principles for decades only meant vastly increased costs and a component literally trying to twist itself apart because of where the forces were now designed to be.

Not all innovation is good or progressive.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

What would happen to a human body in an implosion at that depth?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Apparently the kid replaced his mother on the ill fated trip as he wanted break a record for solving a Rubik’s cube at that depth. Survivor’s guilt won’t be much fun.

 

[AverageJoe]

What about all that Bermuda Triangle stuff when I was a kid? That fascinated me when I was about 8. Don't remember anything happening there for a while now. Or is that part of the alien cover-up?

I was the same.

Arthur C Clark's mysterious world with Crystal Skulls and Spontaneous Combustion.

The latter I'm now convinced was by people wearing corduroy trousers and building up static.

Sorry for the derail!

 

[planetgeli]

Apparently the kid replaced his mother on the ill fated trip as he wanted break a record for solving a Rubik’s cube at that depth. Survivor’s guilt won’t be much fun.

4 days ago the kid's older sister came out and said he was "terrified" of going.

It's almost like another narrative had to be invented.

 

[Pickman's model]

Apparently the kid replaced his mother on the ill fated trip as he wanted break a record for solving a Rubik’s cube at that depth. Survivor’s guilt won’t be much fun.

it so rarely is

 

[Magnus McGinty]

4 days ago the kid's older sister came out and said he was "terrified" of going.

It's almost like another narrative had to be invented.

This is from an interview with his mother who said he was ‘excited’ before climbing on board. So fuck knows.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is from an interview with his mother who said he was ‘excited’ before climbing on board. So fuck knows.

she's hardly going to say, he was heart-broken as they thrust him physically inside the deadly tin can despite his desperate struggles to escape

 

[Magnus McGinty]

she's hardly going to say, he was heart-broken as they thrust him physically inside the deadly tin can despite his desperate struggles to escape

I think it’s possible to be apprehensive and excited about something. They’re not mutually exclusive.

 

[Pickman's model]

I think it’s possible to be apprehensive and excited about something. They’re not mutually exclusive.

My point being she is likely to publicly put the brightest complexion on things, on what she's been told

 

[Ax^]

she's hardly going to say, he was heart-broken as they thrust him physically inside the deadly tin can despite his desperate struggles to escape

looked into his teary petrified eyes and firmly thrusted a rubik's cube in his sweaty palms

"get in the submarine"

 

[planetgeli]

I think it’s possible to be apprehensive and excited about something. They’re not mutually exclusive.

He (apparently) aimed to solve the Rubik's cube while at the site of the Titanic.

So obviously not at all a waste of the 250k ticket, and he was a proper scientist and Titanic enthusiast like we were told before.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

looked into his teary petrified eyes and firmly thrusted a rubik's cube in his sweaty palms

"get in the submarine"

Oh god I'm getting Evangelion flashbacks.

 

[Pickman's model]

He (apparently) aimed to solve the Rubik's cube while at the site of the Titanic.

So obviously not at all a waste of the 250k ticket, and he was a proper scientist like we were told before.

If I was going somewhere where I was apprehensive I'd want something that'd take my mind off things for longer than the cube would baffle him

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh god I'm getting Evangelion flashbacks.

I've got that manga

 

[farmerbarleymow]

This is an interesting video showing an implosion in a 3D printed titanium sub model at an equivalent of about 1 mile deep. Shows just how quickly it tips from being intact to failure.

 

[planetgeli]

If I was going somewhere where I was apprehensive I'd want something that'd take my mind off things for longer than the cube would baffle him

Anyone for a game of Risk?

Hold on, can we fit the board in?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

My point being she is likely to publicly put the brightest complexion on things, on what she's been told

But it seems more likely that she traded her £200,000 seat with him because he wanted to go rather than because he didn’t want to go…

 

[planetgeli]

But it seems more likely that she traded her £200,000 seat with him because he wanted to go rather than because he didn’t want to go…

Isn't it great hiring good media advisors/publicity wankers - I forget their actual title.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Isn't it great hiring good media advisors/publicity wankers - I forget their actual title.

I don’t see why she would need to. It isn’t her getting sued is it?

 

[planetgeli]

I don’t see why she would need to. It isn’t her getting sued is it?

Because the 'moral ground' of the original publicity for the family was wrong. His sister said what was probably the truth. But it made the father look bad (it's on this thread).

So reinvent the narrative.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Because the 'moral ground' of the original publicity for the family was wrong. His sister said what was probably the truth. But it made the father look bad (it's on this thread).

So reinvent the narrative.

It’s possible. But given how the press run with anything regardless of the truth we can’t say with any certainty that what was previously said was the truth.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I've got that manga

Which version?