Titanic: First Ever Full-sized Scans Reveal Wreck As Never Seen Before (bbc.co.uk) 41
"The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created using deep-sea mapping," reports the BBC.
Their article includes a one-minute video showing the results. "It provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the water has been drained away. " "There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News. He said the model was "one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research — and not speculation."
The Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship — never the whole thing. The new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.
The scan was carried out in summer 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project. Submersibles, remotely controlled by a team on board a specialist ship, spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck. They took more than 700,000 images from every angle, creating an exact 3D reconstruction...
In the surrounding debris field, items are scattered, including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened champagne bottles. There are also personal possessions, including dozens of shoes resting on the sediment.
Their article includes a one-minute video showing the results. "It provides a unique 3D view of the entire ship, enabling it to be seen as if the water has been drained away. " "There are still questions, basic questions, that need to be answered about the ship," Parks Stephenson, a Titanic analyst, told BBC News. He said the model was "one of the first major steps to driving the Titanic story towards evidence-based research — and not speculation."
The Titanic has been extensively explored since the wreck was discovered in 1985. But it's so huge that in the gloom of the deep, cameras can only ever show us tantalizing snapshots of the decaying ship — never the whole thing. The new scan captures the wreck in its entirety, revealing a complete view of the Titanic. It lies in two parts, with the bow and the stern separated by about 800m (2,600ft). A huge debris field surrounds the broken vessel.
The scan was carried out in summer 2022 by Magellan Ltd, a deep-sea mapping company, and Atlantic Productions, who are making a documentary about the project. Submersibles, remotely controlled by a team on board a specialist ship, spent more than 200 hours surveying the length and breadth of the wreck. They took more than 700,000 images from every angle, creating an exact 3D reconstruction...
In the surrounding debris field, items are scattered, including ornate metalwork from the ship, statues and unopened champagne bottles. There are also personal possessions, including dozens of shoes resting on the sediment.
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>January 6th was the greatest tragedy in human history
Someone lacks perspective. Watching a collection of weaponized idiots try to overthrow a reasonably democratic state in the name of a guy who, if life were fair, would be a former used car salesman service consecutive sentences for fraud, was sad... but 'the greatest tragedy in human history' it was not.
For one thing, the coup attempt failed. For another, the total body count of the Trump years is something like half a million people - mostly due to
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For one thing, the coup attempt failed.
Well, for one thing, there was no coup. Just a bunch of people being let in an lead around by capital police. Who were then arrested in a bunch of trumped-up charges. Possibly the largest miscarriage of justice in recent American history outside the internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII.
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There was a coup attempt. That much is blindingly obvious to most rational people. Not to you, obviously
No, there wasn't a coup. There was no such thing. We got over 40,000 fucking hours of capital camera footage that shows otherwise. There was no coup. Just a bunch of people walking around, mostly peaceful after being invited in by Capital Police. We even have footage of them being escorted around by the same police.
There was no coup and Jan. 6th is the most over blown event in history. The only fools that still believe that are the ones like you that simply believe what they are told.
Best you ke
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Just because it was wholly botched doesn't mean that it was "overblown" or didn't happen. It just means they fucked it up, or their plan was terrible to begin with - I'm very happy about the level of ineptitude shown on that day by bad actors, otherwise we'd probably be in a very different world today.
- Consider the uncertified elector scheme and attempts to get the Vice President to illegally disqualify electoral college delegates from a few hand-picked states that would conveniently overturn the election
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40,000 hours of unreleased video footage showing people being lead through the capital by the police. one instance of the horned one being escorted with doors open.
No insurrection, no coup on Jan 6. this discussion is over.
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If it's unreleased, then how do you know what's on it? Because a disgraced and fired two-faced sensationalist racist on Fox told you so?
And discussions aren't over because YOU say so. Handwaving away the mountains of evidence, most of which will be used as evidence in actual criminal proceedings (or has already been) isn't going to work.
There has been a proven seditious conspiracy in two different courts of law, by two different juries.
There is a special prosecutor who appears to be getting ever closer to
Still amazing (Score:1)
Looking at the images, I am still amazed at how over 120 years ago they were able to bang that heap of pot metal together well enough that it floated at all. And they did it without any CAD system support. Just paper and drafting boards.
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And they did it without any CAD system support. Just paper and drafting boards.
That is the interesting part, isn't it? This massive (for the time), floating structure built solely on the basis of designs created by hand on paper, and slide rules, with all the nuances of the pieces fitting together as correctly as they do today with computerized drawings.
And it wasn't just this ship. Britannic, Carpathia, and thounsands of other ships over multiple decades, including aircraft carriers and battleships, were all done this way. In hindsight, it's a wonder they ever got built.
Re:Still amazing (Score:5, Informative)
Speaking of the Titanic herself and her nearly identical sister ships, not only did they get built, they actually performed well. In fact one Titanic's sister ships, the "Olympic" was used a troop carrier in World War I and was nicknamed "Old Reliable." She sailed for 24 years, proving the design of the Titanic. Sadly the Britannic only saw service for one year before she sank, but that was due to war, not because of any design problem.
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Actually, very slightly [encycloped...tanica.org] too small. And refitting a rudder is not that big a deal.
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It was less the size and more the placement/design; it was a "blown" rudder in that it was directly behind the center propellor, so the wash would provide a lot of extra steering power. When the captain called for all engines hard astern, there was no more wash so the effectiveness sharply dropped and the rest, as they say, is history
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The pride of the White Star line [youtube.com].
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Speaking of the Titanic herself and her nearly identical sister ships, not only did they get built, they actually performed well. In fact one Titanic's sister ships, the "Olympic" was used a troop carrier in World War I and was nicknamed "Old Reliable." She sailed for 24 years, proving the design of the Titanic. Sadly the Britannic only saw service for one year before she sank, but that was due to war, not because of any design problem.
Yep. Back in the days when REAL engineers could do REAL MATH and resolve problems without resorting to copy&paste from StackOverflow or whatever.
Same immense respect should be given to all of the incredible men & women that made the NASA Apollo missions possible through their design & engineering efforts.
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If you can tour the internals of old warships, you see the mistakes that were made. Where one pipe came along, and encountered another they weren't expecting. Had to come up with a hatchet job on the spot to solve the conflict. Most of these were cleaned up if the ship was rebuilt later, but some of them are downright funny.
Medieval churches are great for that as well [wordpress.com].
It makes me wonder if in a couple of hundred years future software architects (or whatever they're called) will be laughing at some of the code we wrote, I mean we do that already [thedailywtf.com] but just like source code is a level of abstraction above machine code I expect us to eventually end up a level above source code as well.
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It makes me wonder if in a couple of hundred years future software architects (or whatever they're called) will be laughing at some of the code we wrote,
Oh there will be. I go back and look at code I wrote decades ago and laugh. But mostly I'm amazed.. "that shit worked!"
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With so much being done on computers today it makes you wonder how they could have done it all with out them. It's very cool though. Back in the late 80s the company I was working for introduced a cad software for ship building. It was amazing what it could do. You could have it route a pipe from one end to the other moving other parts and pipes as needed. Took forever on a 40mhz RISC processor but was fascinating to watch it work.
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We've been making boats for millennia now, it's not a very new technology. We've had boats before we understood things like buoyancy. It's one of those "engineers vs. scientists" things where we've made things long before we actually understood why. (The people who built tho
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I think the question was on the rivets, which had impurities from the open hearth method. The documentary I saw, Modern Marvels Titanic tech and Seconds from Disaster, said that the captain was speeding because the prevailing theory of the time was to go as quickly through the ice berg area so as to spend as little time there as possible, lower the chance of hitting one. Obviously they were going too fast for their handling. The documentary had navy historians traveling at the same time of night in the same
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Also the captain thought he had taken enough precautions by going even further than the southern route normally taken to avoid icebergs. There was some controversy the morse code relay system messaging. The California iirc tried to transmit over the message that Titanic was transferring to Cape Race and the Titanic operator told him to cease (which was a warning about the iceberg, but it lacked the proper prefix to give it priority and tot he bridge) Not that it mattered because the Titanic had already rece
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But now we have proof that there are not generations of survivors partying in a massive air pocket. That is new.
Someone else saw that crappy movie. I was starting to wonder if I just imagined the whole thing.
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I too saw that movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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I too saw that movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
LOL!
Whenever the aircon fails in a modern movie we're always told there's "only 20 minutes of oxygen left" even if it's a huge spaceship-size hangar.
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You're right of course. You do you, I'm fine with that. I care though. I remember fascinating on it with my brother, long before the horror of Bhopal and what the people at BP did there graced my wood-grained television set.
When I grew up, this was one of the big mysteries. I did all the Titanic stuff before Cameron took over Piranha II: The Spawning The books and movies available at the time, "A Night to Remember"...Some others we got at the library. There was much mystery. All now, as you point ou
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For sure, I am not saying all the study of it wasn't worth pursuing but what lessons in 2023 are we going to learn from Titanic that we don't already know. We know what happened at this point down to the minute by minute. We know everyone who was on board, we've cataloged and tagged every plate and piece of silverware onboard. We learned all the lessons about shipbuilding, safety protocols, hubris and icebergs.
It's not like this was the only large ship to sink in human history, at this point focussing on
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> YUO FAIL IT
Hmm, yes, please tell us more about "failures".
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Please help, I tried to read this, and now I smell burnt toast.
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Need I point out that those shoes used to have people in them.
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You don't need to point it out to me. This was fascinating when we first found the ship but do we really need to keep visiting it. Time to let those souls rest in peace already. enough is enough.
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Was James Cameron involved? ;)