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The Wreck of the Titan
Posted on 1/21/18 at 2:15 pm
Posted on 1/21/18 at 2:15 pm
Is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson.
It is a prophetic book.
At the time of Robertson's story, the ocean liner known as The Titanic had not even been conceptualized. Yet the similarities between the "fictional" story and the real event are too strong to dismiss.
1. In the story, the Titan was described as the "largest thing afloat and the greatest work of man". Both of which were used to describe the real life counterpart.
2. Both were described as unsinkable.
3. Both sank in the North Atlantic in the month of April.
4. Both had a triple screw propeller (never been done before)
5. The Titan had a top speed of 25 knots (Titanic was the fastest made and topped out at 22.5 knots. Pretty close)
6. Neither had enough life boats for all passengers and crew (because unsinkable, duh)
7. Both sank 400 miles from Newfoundland after striking an iceberg.
Again, things that make ya go hmmm.
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It is a prophetic book.
At the time of Robertson's story, the ocean liner known as The Titanic had not even been conceptualized. Yet the similarities between the "fictional" story and the real event are too strong to dismiss.
1. In the story, the Titan was described as the "largest thing afloat and the greatest work of man". Both of which were used to describe the real life counterpart.
2. Both were described as unsinkable.
3. Both sank in the North Atlantic in the month of April.
4. Both had a triple screw propeller (never been done before)
5. The Titan had a top speed of 25 knots (Titanic was the fastest made and topped out at 22.5 knots. Pretty close)
6. Neither had enough life boats for all passengers and crew (because unsinkable, duh)
7. Both sank 400 miles from Newfoundland after striking an iceberg.
Again, things that make ya go hmmm.
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Posted on 1/21/18 at 2:22 pm to BoarEd
And in both cases, the unsinkable ocean liner struck an iceberg on the forward starboard side.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:49 pm to BoarEd
Sounds gay af.
Nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:51 pm to BowlJackson
frick off, Bowl.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:51 pm to BoarEd
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Again, things that make ya go hmmm.
I take it you have never read Fahrenheit 451?
Written as science fiction but most everything in the book has become reality.
Scary stuff.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:53 pm to Cheese Grits
Actually I have. Interesting stuff.
Same with Jules Verne and his From Earth to the Moon story.
Also, the book 1984.
Same with Jules Verne and his From Earth to the Moon story.
Also, the book 1984.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 3:59 pm to Cheese Grits
Mostly this thread was just meant to be a sidebar in my other thread about the books written about Donald Trump. This story dovetails right into that other rabbit hole.
So thanks to whomever deleted that other thread. Super awesome job moderating.
And Bowl, you're starting to act like the neighborhood Chihuahua that runs around barking at people and nipping at their ankles. If you don't like the thread, don't read it.
So thanks to whomever deleted that other thread. Super awesome job moderating.
And Bowl, you're starting to act like the neighborhood Chihuahua that runs around barking at people and nipping at their ankles. If you don't like the thread, don't read it.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:01 pm to BoarEd
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I have. Interesting stuff.
Often what is considered "science fiction" is only thinkers ahead of their time. If you read deeper most or more writing about human condition and it winds up disguised as fiction because it is set in the past or future.
In writing Titanic it could be less prophecy and more just thinking of what was possible then writing in the human nature element.
Man thinking they are greater than Mother Nature (an "unsinkable" boat) is just asking for disaster. What I do not like tho is taking the actual Titanic, where a great many lives were lost, and remaking it as fiction to sell tickets and rewriting history.
A person in steerage would never have been able to mix with first class but I guess to hell with the facts when you are selling tickets to females and padding your retirement nest.
Posted on 1/21/18 at 4:07 pm to BoarEd
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The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee'
Posted on 1/21/18 at 5:57 pm to Cheese Grits
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In writing Titanic it could be less prophecy and more just thinking of what was possible then writing in the human nature element
I wonder if anyone has ever done a statistical analysis. The number of commonalities between the two (the fictional story and the real event) seem to me to be far too numerous to write it off as mere coincidence.
In the other examples, 1984 for instance, all of the foretold events COULD be written off as simply the brilliant mind of a forward thinker deducing what would come to be.
But when we find these instances of specific things coming to pass it is interesting, to say the least.
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