they say that the boat should have just rammed the iceberg straight-up, as that would have only flooded two of their compartments instead of 5 (4 being the limit). of course jack and rose would have died, along with anyone else chilling (literally) near the bow but would have kept the boat afloat.

5/10/2010 10:55:30 PM

wait, they die earlier in the movie and everyone lives?

SIGN ME UP

5/10/2010 10:56:04 PM

yes i did know this

because we wrote a report on the titanic in HI 341 a few yrs ago about "catastrophes in technological history"

5/10/2010 10:56:19 PM

RMS

5/10/2010 10:57:30 PM

^yeah, I missed that.

I still don't get why they labeled their ships as such.

5/10/2010 10:58:36 PM

I, too, watch Discovery

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"CHEAP ASS BOLTS"

5/10/2010 10:58:56 PM

text messages on my titanic?

It's more likely than you think.

5/10/2010 10:59:16 PM

RAMMING

MASSIVE

SHITINTHEOCEAN

5/10/2010 10:59:53 PM

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"CHEAP ASS-BOLTS"

5/10/2010 11:00:01 PM

considering how preventable this would have been modern day, what with the improvement in steel and general knowledge of physics, it's interesting to look back on how wrong (or "right", I guess) the conventional wisdom was about things.

5/10/2010 11:01:44 PM

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"I still don't get why they labeled their ships as such."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Ship

5/10/2010 11:02:09 PM

this is retarded. you rather not hit the iceberg at all. hindsight is 20/20.

5/10/2010 11:04:02 PM

I understand THAT. it's just silly... it wasn't a mail boat.

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"this is retarded. you rather not hit the iceberg at all. hindsight is 20/20."

I think it's more like.. either you take it on the chin or you take several lacerations on your side

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 11:05 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2010 11:04:06 PM

also if they had just kept at full steam they would've been able to just steer clear of it.

5/10/2010 11:05:56 PM

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"I understand THAT. it's just silly... it wasn't a mail boat."

It didn't only carry mail. But carrying mail was an important role for ocean liners because of the frequency of their transatlantic crossings.

5/10/2010 11:07:00 PM

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"it's just silly... it wasn't a mail boat. "

the Mail Boat to Tangier Island that still runs today is a lot more than a mail boat. It serves as a passenger ferry and supplies the general store with milk and bread.

5/10/2010 11:08:50 PM

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"It didn't only carry mail. But carrying mail was an important role for ocean liners because of the frequency of their transatlantic crossings."

Just wondering.. how often was mail getting sent across the pond (I'm just interested).

5/10/2010 11:10:13 PM

you guys act like they siad "o no, lets side swipe the berg insteaad of hitting it straight on"

no

they siad

"holy shit iceberg lets steer clear of that shit and get to our destination"

then you guys were there like

"don't steer clear of it just ram it straight on that way we can get rescued

5/10/2010 11:11:33 PM

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"also if they had just kept at full steam they would've been able to just steer clear of it."

If the captain had only ridden a jetski he would have been well aware of that.

5/10/2010 11:12:03 PM

It sank because it had more than 160 characters.

5/10/2010 11:13:29 PM

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"Just wondering.. how often was mail getting sent across the pond (I'm just interested)."

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"On board the Titanic was a Sea Post Office with five mail clerks (two British and three American). These mail clerks were responsible for the 3,423 sacks of mail (seven million individual pieces of mail) on board the Titanic."

5/10/2010 11:19:51 PM

jesus. that's a lot of mail down the drain

chase overdraft notices... sank

[Edited on May 10, 2010 at 11:21 PM. Reason : .]

5/10/2010 11:21:06 PM

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"you guys act like they siad "o no, lets side swipe the berg insteaad of hitting it straight on" no they siad "holy shit iceberg lets steer clear of that shit and get to our destination" then you guys were there like "don't steer clear of it just ram it straight on that way we can get rescued"

AWESOME POST

5/11/2010 12:11:34 AM

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"SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE"

5/11/2010 2:30:46 AM

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"It sank because it had more than 160 characters."

hahaha, nice

5/11/2010 6:15:10 AM

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"It sank because it had more than 160 characters."

LOL

5/11/2010 7:10:01 AM

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"If the captain had only ridden a jetski he would have been well aware of that."

5/11/2010 7:13:54 AM

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"AWESOME POST "

DON'T YOU EVER FUCKING SAY THAT ABOUT A mambagrl POST!

5/11/2010 7:52:10 AM

^why?

5/11/2010 10:36:41 AM

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"because we wrote a report on the titanic in HI 341 a few yrs ago about "catastrophes in technological history""

we had to do a 3 part paper, you must have had an easy teacher to only cover one subject.

our subjects were: Agent Orange
The FDA
Can't Remember

5/11/2010 10:46:17 AM

^ I only had to do one topic as well. I did the L-1011 ( a large airplane)

5/11/2010 11:32:24 AM