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Billionaire Has Plans to Build Titanic Replica
AP via Yahoo! ^
| 2/26/2013
| EILEEN AJ CONNELLY
Posted on 02/26/2013 4:04:34 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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Might not want to follow the exact course of the original.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:04:41 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: Pan_Yan
Clive, make sure none of your workers brags that it is unsinkable and then carves the words, “Not even God can sink this ship” on the hull. Just saying....
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:08:37 PM PST
by
cld51860
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: Pan_Yan
In what some may consider a temptation of fate for a remake of a notoriously "unsinkable" ship that sank, a representative of the Finnish designer of the Titanic II said it will be the "safest cruise ship in the world."Er, the builders may want to try a little humility this time around.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:11:05 PM PST
by
skeeter
To: Pan_Yan
Built in China....RIGHT! I’m not getting in her!
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:11:18 PM PST
by
WellyP
(question!)
To: cld51860
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:11:28 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: Pan_Yan
Nor the exact original design.
To: Pan_Yan
The photo is believed to be the last photo ever taken of the RMS Titanic before it sank in April 1912.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:17:31 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: Pan_Yan
will he use rivets and brittle steel plating like the original? or will cheap chinese steel be a equivalent substitute?
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:26:33 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: Pan_Yan
Looks like this guy is striving to be a millionaire.
To: colorado tanker
It was actually a very well-designed ship. It took longer to sink than the chief engineer thought, and it didn’t capsize unlike basically every other vessel ever sunk.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:33:23 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Pan_Yan
They might want to have enough life boats for everyone. It could be a very beautiful ship, yet I think keeping it in dry dock as a ocean-side hotel might be a better move then sailing it.
To: re_nortex
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:34:47 PM PST
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
To: Pan_Yan
The investor made his money in minerals and natural resources.
Cruise ships, transportation, real estate, and branding are something else entirely.
He's starting with a tragic brand...and it's like buying a hole in the ground and trying to dig your way out.
Perhaps he should start with something smaller...like a Hindenburg.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:37:40 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: This I Wonder32460
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:38:36 PM PST
by
RoosterRedux
(Get armed, practice in the use of your weapons, get physically fit, stay alert!)
To: Pan_Yan
> Might not want to follow the exact course of the original.
I hope Soros is on the manifesto if they do...: )
To: skeeter
Humility and properly selected, tested and welded steel.
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:39:02 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: WellyP
Built in China....RIGHT! I’m not getting in her!Won't the shipbuilders of England be so proud when a Chinese knockoff of one of their most famous designs pulls up to the pier? Kind of like when they let the Queen Elizabeth get sold to a Chinese businessman who torched it for the insurance money and left it to rot in Hong Kong harbor?
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:39:59 PM PST
by
Pan_Yan
To: gorush
Such a forlorn picture, given her fate.
To: Amberdawn
Indeed...and here's another...
And another...
And maybe another if you're a Csar Nicholas fan...
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posted on
02/26/2013 4:51:35 PM PST
by
gorush
(History repeats itself because human nature is static)
To: This I Wonder32460
Now wait one minute, ya gotta cut costs somewhere.
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posted on
02/26/2013 5:01:50 PM PST
by
SgtHooper
(The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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