# Bad News: 30 years for Titanic to rust away to a shapless blob **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519 "2012-04-12T01:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/41 "2012-04-12T18:36:02Z")
At least you didn’t say Gene Shalit. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/42 "2012-04-12T19:05:35Z")
Or worse, Siskel. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/43 "2012-04-12T19:08:31Z")
Or Micheal Medved. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/44 "2012-04-12T23:06:54Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/45 "2012-04-14T12:11:52Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/46 "2012-04-14T12:23:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/47 "2012-04-14T18:05:00Z")
> [@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!!! ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/48 "2012-04-15T15:50:26Z")
Will they do a 3-D movie on its becoming a shapeless blob? ---
**Author:** ![Kenm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bc79bd/32.png) [@Kenm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kenm)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/49 "2012-04-15T18:59:16Z")
What do [**such people**](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129971/Titanic-100th-anniversary-Twitter-users-just-Titanic-really-happened.html) do in their lives, besides vote? ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/50 "2012-04-18T05:35:20Z")
> [@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? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/51 "2012-04-18T05:39:23Z")
My anti-Titanic thread is turning into another discussion about the Titanic. Sigh. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2012, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519/52 "2012-04-18T06:17:17Z")
And this post will keep the thread afloat for a wee while longer. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-news-30-years-for-titanic-to-rust-away-to-a-shapless-blob/618519.md?page=2)