Here is a sine of 46 degrees.
(What do I get?)
Posted on 04/13/2012 9:56:24 PM PDT by grundle
The social news-sharing site Reddit has a knack for exposing people and situations. The latest topic of discussion to generate controversy is a series of tweets from people who did not know that the sinking of the Titanic was a real historical event.
Apparently, an entire generation of people associate "Titanic" with the Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Here is the disambiguation for you. The RMS Titanic sank April 15, 1912, after hitting an iceberg. The tragedy is considered one of the deadliest of peacetime maritime disasters. More than 1,500 people died.
"Titanic" the film was released December 19, 1997, and was an instant success. It became the highest-grossing film of all time for 12 years, until "Avatar" debuted in 2009.
For all the history buffs reading this, the next couple of sentences may be too painful to contemplate. A couple of the tweets from the uninformed read, "Nobody told me titanic was real? How am I just finding this out?" Another tweet read, "Guys, the Titanic was real! #mindblown."
Most people aware of the existence of the RMS Titanic are in disbelief. One such person tweeted, "The ignorance is astounding." Another person said he was "weeping for the future" at finding out that so many young people are unfamiliar with such a well-known fact.
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Largest maritime loss of life in the US?
For more detail than that, I'd have to look it up...
Root Mean Square
Sure do, I incorporate his material, (along with other sources) into what I teach. :)
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Like I said, I have an excellent boss. :D
Thank you. I’ll do that. Sounds like something she’d watch many times.
Thank you for the Titanic pings and for this movie reminder, re_nortex! I've got our DVR set for the movie, tonight on Turner Classic Movies (TCM).
This is just too painful to even read...those poor ignorant fools who “teach” our children history and geography should be put out of our misery, and the public schools and given a job where they can’t hurt anyone but themselves. Making marshmallow by hand...maybe.
Do you suppose this means that World War II really happened, too?
Years ago, I was showing my daughter pictures of my mother and father along with others from the rest of my family that constituted 5 generations of inhabitants of Cobb County Georgia.
We came upon a picture of my mother and father on a boat in Germany. A little preface here. My father served in the AAC in the Med, Siciliy and in the Battle of Rome according to his DD214. He enlisted in 1939 because he was from a sharecropper family in SC (Clinton) having only got through grade 5, and this was a step up for him. He was with the AAC through VE day and was part of the Occupation Forces in Germany (Frankfurt) on through 1949. Along the way, he was transferred to the AF in 1947.
This picture was of him and my mother (who he’d been lucky enough to have join him) on Hitler’s former yacht on the Rhein River that had been turned into a floating restaurant.
My daughter asked, “Where is this?”
I said “Hitler’s Yacht”
She said, “Who’s Hitler”.....
That is when I knew we have enemies running our schools.
Here is a sine of 46 degrees.
(What do I get?)
And this is a big surprise because?
Twits can be generally assumed to vote for Obama. After hydrogen, ignorance is the most abundant thing in the universe.
I’ll have to tell you about the time I rode in the Ruby Yacht of Victor Kiam.
Conversation from 2 days ago:
A friend of mine just got back from 85 days in Nigeria. We were sitting down at the marina having a cold beer talking about it. A guy that was sitting close asked what country Nigeria was in. Before my friend could answer, his wife chimed in that it was a state in Africa.
She told him that Africa was like the United States, a country comprised of many different states. My friend responded. He said, "Ok, my wife thinks that Africa is a country. It is time for us to go home."
And in the “Mass Killings” category there is always the Bath School Bombing from 1927.
Actually, that describes him pretty well.
He saw no need for learning geography, or any subject other than sports and Accounting. Accounting he needed to know to graduate and find work. Sports was for fun.
Everything else was unnecessary to him.
Was Victor Omar’s Cousin?
I can one up everyone here, I work for an international freight forwarder. We move freight in cargo containers world wide. Most of the young kids who come to work don’t know the difference between Australia and Austria. We’re now in the process of training the entire team as to what countries are in Asia as opposed to Europe etc. It’s pathetic how these kids have no knowledge of geography, history, spelling or know how to construct a simple sentence without it reading like a text message. Most are simply illiterate and can barely speak English and they were all born here! I’ve even had to explain to a team lead what communism is. It’s like hiring kindergarten students but we pay crap so this is what we end up with!
Indeed. Even The Federalist Papers, which were given away as pamplets to anyone when they were written, is now graduate level material!
BTW, I graduated high school in 1990. And though I'm not Catholic, I graduated from a Catholic school.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
I not suprise
I have friend who daughter didn’t know that Ronald Reagan was actor LOL!
Yeah tell me about it somebody said it was George W Bush I hear that one comment
Also I hear comment that Peter O’Toole was real Henry 2 in Lion in Winter
Yeah tell me about it somebody said it was George W Bush I hear that one comment
Also I hear comment that Peter O’Toole was real Henry 2 in Lion in Winter
He liked Omar’s yacht so much he bought the company!
Your kids like wine? :p
Having been told that Apollo 13 was real, she is going to be very worried after seeing Apoll 18.
:p
I can totally hear a teenager or twenty-something saying that
Nope, totally implausible. Who would believe something like that can really happen? :p
LOL!
Ironically, I hear 1 of those, decked out very fancy, was on the Titanic.
That is a great book.
My uncle highly recommended it. He’s very learned.
Of course, he continues to vote Democrat even after all the scathing frothing diatribes against Moslems. He’s in the “so smart there’s no common sense” category.
It happened shortly before I was born -- and it is the reason that natural gas -- supplied commercially -- "stinks" today -- by law...
Thanks for the ping!
It is exactly the cosine of 45 degrees.
From a surveyor.
[Mr] T
HAH!!
You made me spew coffee all over my keyboard.
Good one.
heehee
Saw “Titanic” movie when it first came out. James Cammeron did a great job going into detail.
One CT can boast is that the guy who discovered the sunken Titanic, Robert Ballard.
Adjusted for inflation, Star Wars comes closest --$1.39 billion to GWTW's $1.58 billion
I still have that book from my childhood.
I did, but shipwrecks in history are an old hobby of mine.
Perhaps twenty years ago, I read a lengthy, scholarly article on the difference between geography as we perceive it and geography as it exists, and how perceived geography affects us.
The article started off with perhaps a fifty-question quiz, starting with the easier questions such as "which is further north, London or Seattle?", then going into more difficult comparative questions, or questions about distances within a hundred miles, or whether A was further from B than C, or if A was closer to B than C was to D. If you cheated and checked your answers after the first few, you realized that the gut-instinct answer was almost never right.
There's geography as it exists and geography as we perceive it.
LOL! Tactics II, Panzer Blitz, Panzer Leader, Squad Leader and a bunch of add-ons, 1776 (still have it), Campaign for North Africa (nope, never made it through that one), and a bunch of others that I traded or sold. Then it was Micro Armor and modern naval.
Never got into coins, but as long as there was a library or a bookstore in walking distance, there was *always* something to do.
Folks who read Gamow, at least know the difference between a million and a billion, but folks who read Morrison's "Powers of Ten" can't be fooled by eco-freakos quaking in their boots about the minuscule amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere...
Both Gamow and Morrison are very helpful in helping one gain a sense of proportion and perspective.
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