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Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story
wiredog writes "According to National Geographic, Robert Ballard's search for the RMS Titanic in 1985 was a cover operation for the real search: They were looking for the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion, two US nuclear submarines that sank during the Cold War." ABC News also has a story on this two-fer undersea search.
Bush's search for WMDs in Iraq was actually a cover story for the real search: Where's Waldo?
Nah...Robert Ballard was really searching for a very expensive diamond dropped overboard by Rose.
So is James Cameron going to make a 3 hour chick flick where a young enlisted man falls in love with a high ranking officer, and they make love in the engine room while the Captain, the officer's life partner, searches frantically for him. Then the submarine starts to sink and the gay enlisted man gives the officer the last life jacket and the officer says, "I'll never let go!" and then he lets go and James Cameron wins 200 more Oscars?
Hey, RMS might be a little on the large size, but Titanic? Come on.
Phoenix, Boston, Little Rock, see a pattern?
And all this time I thought Ballard was pissy because the others on the boat were making fun of his hair loss.
Now I know it was both!
"Hi, Navy? It's Bob Ballard. Guess what I just found."
What was he doing on the Titanic at the bottom of the ocean? Combatting the Black Ooze?
Ambassador Andrei Lysenko: One of our submarines, an Alfa, was last reported in the area of the Grand Banks. We have not heard from her for some time.
Dr. Jeffrey Pelt: Andrei, you've lost another submarine?
"RMS Titanic"...? Oh, you must be referring to the GNU/Hurd kernel.
Or else you follow slashdot patterns and eat too much
Or you are a nudist too
Or you shine your collection daily
Or you collect Titanic janitorial equipment
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A friend of mine who is an editor on the 'reality' TV show, 'The Deadliest Catch,' told me it's actually a documentary on the search for the Russian sub that sank in 2003 while it was being towed to the scrapyard. Most of the work he has to do is replace the unmanned search subs with CGI crab pots in every shot.
The producers are financing the search for the nuclear sub by selling it to the Discovery Channel as a fishing show. Once they find the submarine, then they're going to remove all the CGI and do a little more editing and re-sell the same footage back to the Discovery Channel as a submarine salvage show.
Still no word on what the producers are planning to do with the nuclear kit they're hunting for.
Seth
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You never really know how close to the edge you can go until you fall off.
What are you, French?*
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* HUMOR tags added for the humor-impaired, in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Sometimes I intentionally troll and get modded insightful. Sometimes I try to be funny and get modded troll. It always amazes me, and this time is no exception. I thought I had laid it on thick enough that even the most self-righteous moral guardian could at least tell it was trying to be funny.
:-)
Oh well. Here comes an off-topic mod to set me on my ear
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See here. Not that I'm a royalist, but they do serve in the forces. (Though if they feel like "borrowing" a Chinook to impress their birds/go on a stag weekend, that seems OK too.)