[dfx-]

Originally Posted by Wibbs

I reckon the Titanic has all the "right" elements for a script. Along with tui0hcg's list I'd add that it took ages to actually sink.

Indeed it does...there's the story of the book written by a writer of a steamship named 'The Titan', an unsinkable boat that hit an iceberg on its starboard side in the north Atlantic on an April night. Essentially plagiarised you would think.

But the book was written in 1898.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futilit...k_of_the_Titan

[Capt'n Midnight]

Originally Posted by psychward

Feck sake . Saw a glimpse of the news this morning about some great great grandson of a titanic victim getting all ''emotional'' about this tragic event and someone he never knew. You wouldn't see the sons of the millions of world war 2 dead hamming it up half as much.

Just mentioning in passing that you still hear the odd rumble about the assets of those killed in the Nazi extermination camps.

[Capt'n Midnight]

Originally Posted by supernova84

Maybe if the man on lookout that night had went to specsavers, he might have spotted the iceberg sooner. Oh wait they didn't have specsavers in 1912.

The didn't have binoculars either.

[Wibbs]

Originally Posted by Capt'n Midnight

The didn't have binoculars either.

Well they did, it's just they weren't issued with them. Then again the quality of the optics back then may well have not been up to the task.

[sunflower27]

Originally Posted by Wibbs

Well they did, it's just they weren't issued with them. Then again the quality of the optics back then may well have not been up to the task.

Shoulda gone to....

I wont say it, too lame for AH

[foxcoverteddy]

It is brilliant remembering the people 100 years on, so what are we going to do about the Luistania? An exhibition centre in Kinsale?
Or do we leave this one to the Scots as they built it or perhaps to the germans as they sunk it.

[who the fug]

Luistania, reckon the conspiracy nuts will do there best

Odds are on Churchill sank it because it had a secret space craft as cargo

[Paparazzo]

If you turn on the tv there seems to be about 5 titanic programms on at any one time. Surely even for people really interested in it, it's the same shíte over and over again that we all heard a million times?

[tui0hcg]

Originally Posted by dfx-

Indeed it does...there's the story of the book written by a writer of a steamship named 'The Titan', an unsinkable boat that hit an iceberg on its starboard side in the north Atlantic on an April night. Essentially plagiarised you would think.

But the book was written in 1898.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futilit...k_of_the_Titan

The similarities to the Titanic are incredible.

He also wrote a short story which described a future war between the United States and Empire of Japan. In the story Japan does not declare war but instead launches sneak attacks on United States ships en route to the Philippines and Hawaii.
remind you of anything?

He wrote this in 1914 - was he some sort of psychic or just lucky????

[paddyandy]

Takes good tradesmen to appreciate the Titanic .Pre-gadget age .