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Search For RMS Titanic Was a Cover Story

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 3, 2008 @04:33AM from the just-like-in-the-spy-who-loved-me dept.

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.

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Re:In other news by joeytmann · 2008-06-03 05:12 · Score: 0, Redundant

damn no mod points to rate +1 Funny.

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Stallman! I should have known! by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-03 05:23 · Score: -1, Redundant

Aha! I knew Richard Stallman was behind all this! Him and his blasted free software are the cause of yet another tragedy!
Re:Richard M Stallman by i.of.the.storm · 2008-06-03 05:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Wow, it took this far down the page for someone to make a Stallman joke? I'm surprised.

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what really sank the titanic? by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-03 07:09 · Score: -1, Redundant

This is somewhat off topic, but a while ago a guest on Colbert discovered that sub-standard rivets are what really sunk the Titanic. I found it more interesting than I thought I would, maybe in part because the guest is quite hot.

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