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Titanic Centennial

Aureliano

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Rathdown

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The reason the Titanic remains famous is because of what it symbolised.

Man's progress and achievements. Man's confidence. Man's dominance and self-assured mastery of everything.

But as the say, Man marks the world with ruin. His control stops at the shore.

The Titanic was THE most modern ship of the era. Telephones, lights, electric heaters, elevators, wireless radio, comfortable accomodations for all passengers, regardless of class. Watertight bulkheads. Electric safety-doors.

The reason the Titanic is famous is because it was considered THE most technologically advanced, the fastest, most modern, biggest, most luxurious thing EVER built up to that point in history.

And in one fell swoop, it disappeared.

That's why it remains famous.
No, it remains famous because of the surviving visual imagery; photos, motion picture footage taken at the time, have endowed the sinking of the Titanic with a sense of "now" that no event prior to the sinking can match.
 

rue

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It was recently announced that a man has commissioned the Titanic II to be built: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17890754

He stated that is a replica of the original ship, however, he also states it will be using modern technology and ship design. So I am assuming it will "look" like the Titanic from the outside and/or to passengers?

There's been other stories of people wanting to do the same thing for years. I wonder if this one will actually happen.
 

sheeplady

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The last person that said they were going to do it said it would be 10 grand for first class.

I think that's cheaper than what the most exclusive original first class tickets were- by a long shot. I imagine they'd be sold out in a minute.

You'd have to pay me money to take a trip in the Titanic II. A lot of money, although I bet it's a once in a lifetime experience worth every penny to serious enthusiants. Although, I've always wanted to cross the Atlantic in a passenger boat. Just not that one.
 

rue

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I think that's cheaper than what the most exclusive original first class tickets were- by a long shot. I imagine they'd be sold out in a minute.

You'd have to pay me money to take a trip in the Titanic II. A lot of money, although I bet it's a once in a lifetime experience worth every penny to serious enthusiants. Although, I've always wanted to cross the Atlantic in a passenger boat. Just not that one.


I just asked my friend if he would go and he said "Hell no, but I'll bet you the price of a first class ticket that it'll sink again." I'm not so sure I would get on it myself on the trip here, but maybe on the way back.
 

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