Challenging History : The Titanic Conspiracy

[Tin Pot]

[QUOTE 5250788, member: 45"]In the world occupied by conspiracy theorists, this man is revered as King...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRFlNryaWw[/QUOTE]

Underrated movie that, takes a couple of viewings imo. I was quoting the pentavarate for years but no one knew what I was talking about!

 

[Tin Pot]

I try to learn from other people's mistakes. Businesses are not so good, because spending money to rectify past mistakes is counter to the aim of maximising profit and shareholder return, so they're often slow to 'learn.

They usually learn the wrong lesson, and provide a knee jerk response that will placate the ignorant.

 

[Profpointy]

That demonstrates the truism that people are really bad at learning from their mistakes. Even if it is possible to do a detailed forensic analysis of a failure (and when the failure happens mid-Atlantic it's not) frequently it doesn't happen.

The only industry to have learnt this lesson thoroughly is the commercial airline industry, where making a mistake is celebrated as a chance to make flying safer.

Britannic is believed to have hit a mine in the Great War. Not sure what lesson would have avoided that, since an armoured cruiser or battleship would have been sunk just the same.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Anyone here a member?

https://www.theguardian.com/global/...e-flat-earthers-conspiracy-theories-fake-news

 

[classic33]

Anyone here a member?

https://www.theguardian.com/global/...e-flat-earthers-conspiracy-theories-fake-news

You'll be going on the cruise next year then?

 

[DRM]

Not much notice as our electic has been off for an hour, Titanic, the mystery solved on History HD 9pm sky 130

 

[Tin Pot]

That show is rubbish, you want to watch this:

Titanic II

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Titanic-II...ds=titanic&dpPl=1&dpID=61GvPIyTr3L&ref=plSrch

 

[Deleted member 26715]

[QUOTE 5274201, member: 45"]Why didn't they look for evidence of a fire when they raised it? They did raise the Titanic. I saw it in a documentary.[/QUOTE]
Because the sea had put it out silly,

 

[classic33]

Because the sea had put it out silly,

A drastic measure to put a fire out though. Sink the ship.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It worked didn't it?

 

[Vantage]

Well they didn't find it till the mid eighties so who knows how long it had been burning.

 

[classic33]

Well they didn't find it till the mid eighties so who knows how long it had been burning.

Until the coal was exhausted.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Until the coal was exhausted.

Or at least very tired

 

[Vantage]

[QUOTE 5274640, member: 259"]Last year I met someone from Belfast whose great granddad didn't work on the construction of the Titanic. [/QUOTE]

Clearly they were lying.
As an Irishman, I know for a fact that everyone in Northern Ireland worked on building the Titanic. Even Darby O'Gill. Although technically he's a southerner but they needed someone small to work inside the steam pipes.

Honestly, you brits know nothing.

 

[MartinQ]

An actual "fact"?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world...c-the-top-secret-mission-behind-its-discovery