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Posted: 5/20/2017 6:20:03 AM EDT
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"Not even God could sink her"
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Posted: 5/20/2017 6:30:31 AM EDT
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It's a combination of things. Largest ship at the time Coined as being unsinkable Maiden voyage Full of interesting and influential people at the time A massive ship sunk by an easily avoidable but still dangerous chunk of ice It took a long time to sink in a calm ocean, this let the human dramas unfold. Enough survivors to tell the tale It sank sorta interestingly breaking up on the surface Wasn't found for 70 years as a sort of mystery Basically it's a perfect setting for a movie. 2 hr run time of drama and character development. A ship that sinks in rough seas or capsizes from some human error in just a few minutes just isn't as interesting of a story. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 6:46:26 AM EDT
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For me, it's because I used to cut the grass of one of the female survivors back in the early 70s. Pisses me off to this day that I can't remember her name.  
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Posted: 5/20/2017 6:48:20 AM EDT
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Pretty big place, huh? |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 7:08:37 AM EDT
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It's a combination of things. Largest ship at the time Coined as being unsinkable Maiden voyage Full of interesting and influential people at the time A massive ship sunk by an easily avoidable but still dangerous chunk of ice It took a long time to sink in a calm ocean, this let the human dramas unfold. Enough survivors to tell the tale It sank sorta interestingly breaking up on the surface Wasn't found for 70 years as a sort of mystery Basically it's a perfect setting for a movie. 2 hr run time of drama and character development. A ship that sinks in rough seas or capsizes from some human error in just a few minutes just isn't as interesting of a story. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:37:07 AM EDT
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I'm going to disagree with many here saying its because of those who died, but rather I'm going to say it became such a memorable story because people LIVED. Because there were survivors there were stories of horrors and triumphs through the unspeakable struggles that captivate an audience. Those stories people want to hear, so they last and books and movies get made and it becomes a memorable part of history. I'd bet dollars to donuts if not a single sole survived we wouldn't even have hardly heard about it, but maybe once or twice in a history class. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:42:23 AM EDT
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There was a movie made less than a month after it happened. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It was a big deal way before the movie. I was fascinated by it as a kid in the 70's. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:44:56 AM EDT
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Yeah, the last copies of which were destroyed in 1914. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:45:23 AM EDT
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It was unsinkable?
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:50:30 AM EDT
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Back then an ocean liner was the pinnacle of world transportation, and the Titanic was the biggest and best around.
Picture today if they built a super-fast train that went from Houston to New York to LA and was the fastest fanciest thing around, then it derailed and crashed on its first journey killing celebrities and politicians and common folk alike. You can bet it would be a huge story and would probably always have a place in history |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 8:53:50 AM EDT
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Notice how you never hear about Olympic and Britannic.
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Posted: 5/20/2017 10:09:34 AM EDT
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It was a big story at a time when there was much less competition for the public's attention.
No TV, no commercial radio, internet. It would be a huge story today, comparable to 9/11, perhaps. It had center stage and all the spotlights. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 10:11:11 AM EDT
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Did they destroy the 7 movies made after that until 1980 as well? |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 10:14:36 AM EDT
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The Titanic was unsinkable.
It did. All I got. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 10:25:24 AM EDT
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I think at time and still today it stands as a testiment to what can happen blindly trusting in technology and is a warning about the dangers of arrogance and overconfidence.
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Posted: 5/20/2017 10:47:24 AM EDT
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It's an interesting story.
The movie was well done. They are making a replica Titanic ship in Australia Iirc it will retrace the maiden voyage from Liverpool to newyork I'd like to see a good movie made about the Bismarck |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 11:21:10 AM EDT
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The movie came out and people loved watching leonardo dicaprio die
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Posted: 5/20/2017 12:01:45 PM EDT
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Hubris
Does anyone know the story of the Wilhelm Gustav, which went down with an estimated 9,400 people aboard? Why not? Because it wasn't 'unsinkable.' |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 12:05:38 PM EDT
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It is the same as the story of Achilles - man's tragic flaw; his inherent fallibility despite his delusions of grandeur.
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Posted: 5/20/2017 12:23:29 PM EDT
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They couldn't have had too big of a percentage of the passengers to bury... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Pretty big place, huh? |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:35:32 PM EDT
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My wife and I recently returned from a trip to Ireland where I had an opportunity to go visit the Titanic Museum in Belfast.
The people we were traveling with decided to take a couple different taxi rides through Belfast with both Protestant and Catholic areas of the city. I decided to go out on my own and walk through the Titanic museum.  Attached File Attached FileWhen I was at a place to snap some photos of the Titanic and Olympic Slipways, noted the Titanic slipway had grass on it, and the Olympic was drawn out like a blueprint. 
 Attached FileI wondered why the grassy areas were there, and when I exited the museum, I saw the sign me why. Forgive the angle----it was a bright day and this was the best angle I could shoot from to capture it.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:35:52 PM EDT
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I decided to walk down to the end of the Titanic Slipway, just to get an idea of ''scale.''
It's a difficult thing to grasp----these are huge areas. It's very sobering, and moving at the same time. 
The tiles are roughly 16-18" square, and I'm guessing the glass panes are between 9-10' tall. There are several hundred names engraved on both sets of panes on the Titanic and Olympic Slipways. Inside the museum, there was so much to take in. Some rooms were designed with interactive slideshows, and it had drawings on the walls, pictures of the architects/designers/etc. It would tell you where to step on the floor during a slideshow, and you could get more information related to a certain aspect of the design and construction. It was pretty cool really.  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:36:11 PM EDT
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I think this model was about 15' long.
 Attached FileIIRC, this was what 1st class passengers were treated to.  Attached FileLifeboat. I didn't catch if they had exact dimensions, but I'm guessing it was about 22' Google tells me they were 25.2' long  Attached File |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:48:32 PM EDT
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Yeah, it seems interesting set in the early 1900s. A lot of people like the victorian era. The Titanic has a connection to the greatest maritime tragedy on the Great Lakes. After the Titanic went down, maritime laws were changed to require more lifeboats. The added lifeboats helped make the Eastland so top heavy, contributing to the ship being unstable, that she capsized in the Chicago River, killing 844 people in 1915.  The Eastland Disaster: New look at 100-year-old tragedy |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:50:17 PM EDT
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Scope and profile of people that died?
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:54:24 PM EDT
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I knew a lady who was on a ship that picked up Titanic survivors.
Her first person account of the rescue was compelling. |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:58:23 PM EDT
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Scope and profile of people that died? I found this article on a rare photo of Titanic victims being buried at sea. Link |
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Posted: 5/20/2017 1:59:38 PM EDT
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because mankind is arrogant and stories like these serve as a wake up call
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Posted: 5/20/2017 2:22:51 PM EDT
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One author said that the year it happened was a dividing line between the 19th century and 20th century and the world changed a lot right about then. For example, it's when the federal income tax started.
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Posted: 5/20/2017 3:27:29 PM EDT
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In my opinion the most compelling part of the story is that of the Radio Operators. http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/Carpathia%20Rescue.htm
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Posted: 5/20/2017 3:57:22 PM EDT
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In my opinion the most compelling part of the story is that of the Radio Operators. http://www.titanic-whitestarships.com/Carpathia%20Rescue.htm 
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Posted: 5/20/2017 5:48:30 PM EDT
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I always thought the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was very fascinating.
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