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Did a solar flare sink the Titanic? Study suggests space weather may have been responsible for tragedy
meaww ^ | 09/16/2020 | Mihika Basu

Posted on 09/16/2020 7:36:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: 21twelve

That is an interesting plot...will have to check it out...


61 posted on 09/16/2020 11:39:16 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: BenLurkin

Nah Im pretty sure it was the iceberg.


62 posted on 09/17/2020 12:25:33 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: May Bee

Ibtz!!!!

Havent got to post that for a while!


63 posted on 09/17/2020 12:29:18 AM PDT by Crim (Palin / West '16)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ancient aliens did it.


64 posted on 09/17/2020 1:10:02 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: TexasGator

“Iceberg warnings but full speed ahead!”

I’ve heard that the theory at that time was to spend as little time as possible in the danger area, hence full speed. Which makes a certain sense, but has its own dangers - as the Titanic discovered.


65 posted on 09/17/2020 2:02:14 AM PDT by Mr Information
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To: Flick Lives
Testing is underway already Dr. Evil...


66 posted on 09/17/2020 2:20:39 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BenLurkin

“If Titanic’s compass error were only 0.5°, she would have been off her course for around 9 m over 1 km of the run. This apparently insignificant error could have made the difference between colliding with the iceberg and avoiding it...”

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Of course there is no way to tell if the ship was on course because it sank ...


67 posted on 09/17/2020 3:17:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Not in school.


68 posted on 09/17/2020 3:52:09 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

How true. See what hubris does? That’s what sank the Titanic.


69 posted on 09/17/2020 4:14:18 AM PDT by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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To: BenLurkin

Classic Who is still the best.


70 posted on 09/17/2020 4:18:45 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selm)
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71 posted on 09/17/2020 4:23:36 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: mabarker1

damn...


72 posted on 09/17/2020 5:29:58 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: BenLurkin

EVERYBODY knows it was HUBRIS that sunk the Titanic. (If not God Himself).

The stars could never again be so aligned as the night Titanic sunk.

Just coincidences? Seems very unlikely.

UNSINKABLE! And God said “oh yeah?”

Why do we need ANY lifeboats on an unsinkable ship?


73 posted on 09/17/2020 7:23:52 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: BenLurkin

YES! I always love seeing “The Heart of the Ocean” (on Kate Winslet).


74 posted on 09/17/2020 7:29:37 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: PIF

““If Titanic’s compass error were only 0.5°, she would have been off her course for around 9 m over 1 km of the run. This apparently insignificant error could have made the difference between colliding with the iceberg and avoiding it...”

Titanic CHANGED course. Maybe they shouldn’t have. They wouldn’t have hit THAT iceberg.

Most other ships STOPPED! Titanic couldn’t do THAT! We are setting a new record! THAT they accomplished.


75 posted on 09/17/2020 7:36:28 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Mr Information

“I’ve heard that the theory at that time was to spend as little time as possible in the danger area, hence full speed. Which makes a certain sense,”

Makes no sense.


76 posted on 09/17/2020 8:27:52 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: faucetman

Hubris along with a healthy dose of negligence.


77 posted on 09/17/2020 8:50:46 AM PDT by damper99
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To: BenLurkin
Icebergs relieved...
The new U.S. Navy carries on the Titanic tradition...
If it moves, run into it...
78 posted on 09/17/2020 11:27:25 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: TexasGator

“Makes no sense.”

The less time you spend in a dangerous area, the better.


79 posted on 09/17/2020 1:51:56 PM PDT by Mr Information
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To: Mr Information

“The less time you spend in a dangerous area, the better.”

So, how fast do you drive through school zones with heavy fog conditions?


80 posted on 09/17/2020 2:09:30 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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