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Topic: This Titanic Replica Could
Sink Just Like the Original |
This Titanic Replica Could
Sink Just Like the Original
Atlantic, by David Wagner
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Posted By:MissMolly, 2/27/2013 5:40:17 AM
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| For an as-of-yet unnamed price, you too can board a massive luxury ocean liner much like the Titanic for its maiden voyage in 2016. And just as it was on that fateful journey, you too could go down with the ship, according to designs unveiled today. Of course, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer isn´t planning for his expensive pet project to sink. At the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum today, he publicly released design plans for the ship, Hopefully James Cameron wasn´t planning a sequel, because Palmer took the name Titanic II for his weirdly nostalgic
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/27/2013 5:52:01 AM (No. 9198339)
To me,thinking this ship will sink like the first one is a form of phobia and superstition.The original Titanic was a masterpiece at the time it sailed and the biggest downfall might have just been the lack of lifeboats.I´m sure radar detection on things like icebergs is way ahead of the original.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 2/27/2013 6:42:52 AM (No. 9198400)
Probably most of us harbor just a bit of superstition. I declined to get into a small Lake Chapala fishing boat named "Poseidon". No thanks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
steph_gray, 2/27/2013 7:10:14 AM (No. 9198433)
I also doubt that shortage of binoculars will be a factor this time.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 2/27/2013 7:45:07 AM (No. 9198485)
Male passengers are advised to pack a dress.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 2/27/2013 7:58:51 AM (No. 9198515)
The quality of the steel used in the building will be of better quality this time around I´m sure. Problems these cruise ships seem to have today are located in food born bacterias and the engine rooms.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stevendm, 2/27/2013 8:07:31 AM (No. 9198535)
It´s an expensive novelty. Lots of people will want to go on the first crossing. How many will spend big bucks to go on the 100th one?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/27/2013 8:32:47 AM (No. 9198569)
Typical non-engineer.
Leftist idiots (eg.-journalists) demand psycho-therapy and assurances of perfect safety from a ship builder.
(Just like they demand it from government)
Life is dangerous.
Grow up.
You´re scaring the horses.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/27/2013 9:22:51 AM (No. 9198666)
Can we force all the crooked politicians to take the ride? Then we can tow a huge ice berg into place for the ultimate surprise!
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