Posted on 04/10/2012 6:29:25 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel
I don't know. Maybe payments, maybe threats, people do a lot of things when they are motivated.
But the fact of the matter is that there are entire sections, seams, passageways, etc., of each ship that are unique to them alone, that cannot be explained in any other way. Look at the photos, compare for yourself. The ships were swapped.
Your middle link - Titanic-Titanic - doesn’t seem to take the conspiracy submitted too seriously.
A boatload.
You honestly think some 15k people can be shut up?
Remember the game in school to teach how things get mangled - whisper from 1 student to the next and see how the story comes out mangled from the last student? And that’s only 15 students!
In this case, the chance of KEEPING them quiet is along the same vein - it’s impossible. Even if none of them wants to betray the secret, it’s going to pop out sometime. It might not be the exact truth, but it’ll give any inkling something happened. No one is that good at keeping quiet for decades - certainly no power is capable of ensuring 15k people don’t squeal.
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