Bad News: 30 years for Titanic to rust away to a shapless blob

[Marley23]

At least you didn’t say Gene Shalit.

[VinylTurnip]

Or worse, Siskel.

[Kimballkid]

Or Micheal Medved.

[Princhester]

@Kolga

What people on this message board get overheated and pissy about astounds me. The 100th anniversary of the sinking is coming up, of course there’s going to be stories about it. Read something else. Go outside and talk a walk. Have a juicebox and a nap.

I started this thread in MPSIMS for a reason. If I was “overheated” and “pissy” I’d have started it in the Pit and it would have featured swearing. There seem to be some very defensive and touchy replies, though. I’m not sure it’s me that is overheated and pissy.

[BigT]

@Princhester

Why, will that cause all the stories to disappear from the newspapers and blogs and morning radio and news sites I do read? If not, what’s your point?

That the majority of us have seen maybe 1 or 2 of those 29 articles, if any. Those 27 we haven’t seen? Of course we don’t care about them. Why do you?

[Princhester]

Because I’ve seen them most of them. Duh.

And to answer your next question, yes, I had seen at least half the stories that putting “Titanic” into google news found, before I googled it specifically, just on general news websites etc.

[Corcaigh]

@Princhester

You think I notice Titanic stories unduly due to confirmation bias when there have been 29 individual Titanic stories in the last 24 hours? Really? I’m curious as to how many stories per 24 hours would you regard as “a lot”?

How long has this been happening to you…?

@Eve

Wait–it sank?!

Oh way to ruin the movie for me!!!

[handsomeharry]

Will they do a 3-D movie on its becoming a shapeless blob?

[Kenm]

What do such people do in their lives, besides vote?

[chorpler]

@CalMeacham

One of the things about the finding of the Titanic that I absolutely LOVE is the way they completely got this wrong.
For years, people had been telling us that the Titanic, when it was finally found, would be found virtually perfectly preserved, and it would be all in one piece. This was the whole point behind things like the Ghost from the Grand Banks chapter from Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Imperial Earth* (and the later book of that title), and for Clive Cussler’s breakout bestseller Raise the Titanic (Later made into the first Dirk Pitt movie). The extreme cold and lack of oxygen, we were told, would keep the ship in pristine condition. We could possibly re-float i!

Can you point to some other instances of such? I want to see more about that. Why did people think it would be found in one piece?

[Princhester]

My anti-Titanic thread is turning into another discussion about the Titanic. Sigh.

[kambuckta]

And this post will keep the thread afloat for a wee while longer.