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Post by Coolkat on May 17, 2023 5:53:30 GMT -8
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Post by zeke on May 17, 2023 7:32:24 GMT -8
I like the tech that allowed this scan, and maybe some of the information gleaned can be used in spacecraft.
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Post by Travis on May 17, 2023 8:51:40 GMT -8
Yeah, that is impressive!
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Post by driftwoody on May 17, 2023 8:54:03 GMT -8
Very cool, but we still have no technology to scan the ghosts that still walk those decks. |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on May 17, 2023 16:00:53 GMT -8
Very cool, but we still have no technology to scan the ghosts that still walk those decks. If I was a Titanic ghost, I’d be saying: “See? Plenty of room for more lifeboats.” |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on May 17, 2023 16:02:30 GMT -8
“Hope the first-class passengers enjoyed the unobstructed views”
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Post by marmotstew on May 17, 2023 16:06:56 GMT -8
“Hope the first-class passengers enjoyed the unobstructed views” Too soon. |
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Post by marmotstew on May 17, 2023 16:07:41 GMT -8
Very cool, but we still have no technology to scan the ghosts that still walk those decks. If I was a Titanic ghost, I’d be saying: “See? Plenty of room for more lifeboats.” Too too much soon. |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on May 17, 2023 16:19:43 GMT -8
“Can someone please get Celine Dion to shut up? I can confirm with certainty that my heart did not go on. It was eaten by bathypelagic sea creatures.”
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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 18, 2023 4:55:59 GMT -8
I thought the documentary referenced below was excellent. I wonder if these scans can help prove/disprove it. Summary of the theory... the Titanic was ON FIRE when it left port (coal bin). And the reason it was going so fast through iceberg-laden seas is they had to keep shoveling the coal into the engines to keep the fire from spreading. The fire weakened the ship's hull, allowing the iceberg to shred it. In "Titanic: The New Evidence," which airs on the Smithsonian Channel on January 21, Irish journalist Senan Molony argues that the hull of the infamous ship was compromised weeks before it set sail. Through researching photos and eyewitness testimony from the time, Molony contends that a fire spontaneously lit inside one of the Titanic’s enormous coal bunkers and critically weakened a crucial segment of the ship’s hull.
"The ship is a single-skin ship," Molony tells Smithsonian.com. By that he means that while modern ships contain two hulls, at the time, the Titanic, like most ships of its day, just had the one. Because the bunkers where the crew stored coal for the engines sat right next to the hull, the heat from the fire would have transferred directly to the skin, damaging the Titanic's structure.www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coal-fire-may-have-helped-sink-titanic-180961699/ |
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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 18, 2023 4:59:49 GMT -8
Does a Titanic ghost have to walk the ship as it appears now, or how it was? Because the former would really suck. |
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Post by Travis on May 18, 2023 5:50:53 GMT -8
In "Titanic: The New Evidence,"...Molony contends that a fire spontaneously lit inside one of the Titanic’s enormous coal bunkers and critically weakened a crucial segment of the ship’s hull. Something I've learned from knowing employees of the open-pit coal mines in Wyoming is that coal is prone to spontaneous combustion. It is a recurring problem at the coal mines caused by the mining process in which a seam of coal is uncovered, dislodged, exposed to air, and may inadvertently get wet. The air and moisture promote spontaneous combustion. And the fires are very difficult to put out because the mines can not use water on them. Moisture is half the problem to begin with. More moisture creates a bigger problem. I guess that's why I find this theory plausible. |
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Post by walkswithblackflies on May 18, 2023 5:56:59 GMT -8
In "Titanic: The New Evidence,"...Molony contends that a fire spontaneously lit inside one of the Titanic’s enormous coal bunkers and critically weakened a crucial segment of the ship’s hull. Something I've learned from knowing employees of the open-pit coal mines in Wyoming is that coal is prone to spontaneous combustion. There's a town in PA that needed to be abandoned due to a coal fire that, to this day, continues to smolder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fireETA: I originally remember it being a result of spontaneous combustion, but it now appears the town tried to cover up the fact that they purposely started the fire to burn garbage in the pit. <rolls eyes> Also interesting... Increased air pressure induced by the heat from the mine fires has interacted with heavy rainfalls in the area that rush into the abandoned mines to form Pennsylvania's only geyser, the Big Mine Run Geyser, which erupts on private property in nearby Ashland. The geyser has been kept open as a means of flood control. |
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Post by Sleeping Bag Man! on Jun 20, 2023 13:19:42 GMT -8
Ex-Employee Tried Sounding Alarm On Sub Safety At Extreme DepthsSigh......for people so bizarrely obsessed with the Titanic, you'd think that the one thing they should learn...THE ONE THING....is not to cut corners on the safety of an ocean-going vessel. Allegedly the submersible's view portal is only designed for 4,300 feet of pressure? But they’re pushing it to 13,000 feet. Plus multiple allegations of ignoring safety concerns? We've only had 100+ years to learn. ((( facepalm ))) After this, can we just stop with the Titanic nostalgia? 
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Post by marmotstew on Jun 20, 2023 13:56:15 GMT -8
I heard today they bought some of the interior lighting from camping world? I mean nothing against camping world but if your 20000 leagues under the sea and your lighting goes out REI has a better return policy.
If you’re so rich why aren’t you smart?
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