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comrade_general:
100 years ago today...

http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/30/10945531-national-geographic-features-new-images-of-the-unseen-titanic
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/01/10970732-10-causes-of-the-titanic-tragedy

Jubal:
Fun fact: apparently nobody used the word "unsinkable" in relation to the Titanic until AFTER it had sunk.

comrade_general:
Ok, maybe not that word exactly, but it was definitely a common conception that it could not be sunk.

Jubal:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17515305 <- First thing on the list... there were some general conceptions that it would be difficult to sink ships of that size, but the Titanic had no such specific claims made about it and wasn't even big news until she hit the iceberg. A lot of it was drummed up by the press afterwards, and the movies after that.

It's sad how it was such a perfect storm of events though; apparently had she ploughed head-on into the iceberg she'd have stayed afloat, it was the rip down the side (thus getting into too many of the ship's watertight compartments) that sank it.

comrade_general:
So it's all lies then. There probably wasn't even a ship called Titanic, and the "wreckage" was most certainly made in a water set just for the latest movie. This is a big joke!

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