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Add CommentThe fact is that the Titanic should not have sunk. Meaning that every aspect of the story seems geared to guarantee a disaster, and to appeal to those who view things solely viscerally only as a cautionary tale, not as a suspicious event. But, among other things, no seafaring individuals would underestimate the potential for danger, or act arrogantly about setting out, or ignore even just the possibility that someone else might be in distress. Yet these rules were all routinely broken repeatedly, and non credibly, during the entire event! No legitimate shipbuilding firm would cut the number of lifeboats short as was the case here! What cruise line would want to tempt fate for the insurance costs of deaths? No ship with as few lifeboats wouild venture enywhere near pack ice. No radio operator would refuse to take in more information on ice. For that matter, the lookout would called ice on the starboard side, not to the right! And no ship, like the Califnornian, would just watch as another ship sent up emergency rockets, assum,ing they were party favors! For that matter, the Titanic could have sent a launch out to the Californian in time to get them to apprach and rescue passengers! The fact is the the Titanic was deliberately sunk, nor did those claimed to have gone down actually have gone down! It was a fraud manufactured in the same way as the Twin Towers, conmplete with claims of individuals involved who weren't really there at all!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt was probably the great grandfather of the second shooter on the grassy knoll who planned it all out, Julian.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this12:15 A.M. The Titanic makes a U-turn and goes back to the iceberg.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this12:30 A.M. Two dozen men with pick axes and shovels row out to the iceberg and begin to carve out an ice cave.
2:00 A.M. Hundreds of passengers are ferried over to the iceberg ans are waiting for rescue.
2:20 A.M. The Titanic sinks but most of the passengers
are either on the iceberg or in lifeboats.