Here's a question bout the Titanic

[F22RaptorDude]

If the Titanic was and is so popular why not build a whole replica? Why wasn't it done before? I just finished A Night to Remember and it usually gets me thinking, were there any plans to build a 2nd Titanic?




Edit: I know very well of her sister ship is a replica in a way but why not build another "Titanic" almost exactly the same as it was 99 years ago

[guncrasher]

superstition.  people wouldnt want get on a boat that had hundreds of deaths.  it's the same reason air routes numbers are not reused when an airplane crashes.

semp

[MachFly]

Modern ships are a lot bigger, faster, more maneuverable, and have better equipment. No need to build a 100 year old ship.

[F22RaptorDude]

Modern ships are a lot bigger, faster, more maneuverable, and have better equipment. No need to build a 100 year old ship.

People should know what it was really like back then in my opinion, would make them appreciate the bigger better ships of today, as well as offer great educational value, but thats all just my opinion.

superstition.  people wouldnt want get on a boat that had hundreds of deaths.  it's the same reason air routes numbers are not reused when an airplane crashes.

semp

Well possibly with better materials than what they had then?

[Tupac]

If you want to know what it was like back then become Amish.

[F22RaptorDude]

If you want to know what it was like back then become Amish.

??? The Titanic had electricity, and i'm sure the majority of people knew what electricity was

[Tupac]

??? The Titanic had electricity, and i'm sure the majority of people knew what electricity was

Then what do you mean "back then"


Put on your bowler had and overalls and walk into the shopping mall with electricity.

You're living the life.

[PFactorDave]

The Titanic actually had 2 sister ships, The Olympic and the Brittannic.  The Brittannic has been used as research concerning the sinking of the Titanic, since it lies in much shallower water and can be studied more easily.

Here's a link that tells you a bit about the two sister ships.

http://www.starway.org/Titanic/Sister_Ships.html

I expect that it would be considered to be in very poor taste to build a replica of the ship.  A great many people lost their lives on the original.

[F22RaptorDude]

Then what do you mean "back then"


Put on your bowler had and overalls and walk into the shopping mall with electricity.

You're living the life.

I completely lost my train of thought, what are we bickering about?

The Titanic actually had 2 sister ships, The Olympic and the Brittanic.  The Olympic has been used as research concerning the sinking of the Titanic, since it lies in much shallower water and can be studied more easily.

Here's a link that tells you a bit about the two sister ships.

http://www.starway.org/Titanic/Sister_Ships.html

I expect that it would be considered to be in very poor taste to build a replica of the ship.  A great many people lost their lives on the original.

I forgot how the Olympic sank, dismantled for scrap  , the story of the Britannic I've known for ever since I had an interest in Titanic at the age of 4

[Krupinski]

If you want to know what it was like back then become Amish.

I live in Lancaster County... that made me lol. 

[M0nkey_Man]

I live in Lancaster County... that made me lol. 

[canacka]

People should know what it was really like back then in my opinion, would make them appreciate the bigger better ships of today, as well as offer great educational value, but thats all just my opinion.
Well possibly with better materials than what they had then?

It would be quite silly to spend millions of dollars for something for show to appreciate better things.  That's what books and history lessons are for! 

[PFactorDave]

It would be quite silly to spend millions of dollars for something for show to appreciate better things.  That's what books and history lessons are for!  

And CGI too!

Besides, if somebody was going to make a replica of a ship that was lost with many lives, I would rather see a living memorial of the Arizona.  But it shouldn't happen, and won't.

[F22RaptorDude]

It would be quite silly to spend millions of dollars for something for show to appreciate better things.  That's what books and history lessons are for! 

The books are cheap, and the lessons pointless and not deep enough, in US history we hardly go over any aspects of world war II

[PFactorDave]

See Rule #14