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Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time (huffingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: You can watch the Titanic sink in real time thanks to an animated simulation created with Unreal Engine 4 to promote the upcoming game "Titanic: Honor and Glory." The HuffingtonPost writes, "This simulation includes the iceberg strike, the ship coasting to a halt in the North Atlantic about 20 minutes later, lifeboats lowered into the water and even scenes of flooding in the interior corridors." The animation will even give you a play-by-play of what was happening aboard the ship at specific times. What some may find especially eerie about the simulation is the lack of people. Some 1,500 people died when the Titanic sunk, but the simulation shows no people. You can watch the video here.
It sounds like they're trying to make it out like some kind of heroic war story instead of the unmitigated disaster that it was.
We romanticize the past, of course, because the present is so often unremarkable, but we have such high hopes for the future.
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Of what happens when you leave safety up to the private sector.
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The only upside is that many of the people who were killed were among the wealthiest elite of the time
Why the fuck is that an upside?
There is an argument to be made that if the wealthy had not died safety regulations would not have been enacted and enhanced. If it's only "those" people that died it's easy to overlook.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
I imagine in a year or so content creators will start producing VR "Experiences" like this, where a couple of thousand people from all over can spend a few hours/days in VR being "one of the passengers/staff on the Titanic" and have it run as an event, where you're actually in the middle of it.
And from there the possibilities are endless - The moon landing? JFK's assassination (or whoever's version of it) - Sure there'll be tons of fictional worlds and experiences, but a big part of it will be recreating historical experiences for both entertainment and education.
The old "simulation" games like Rome: Total war or even Assassins creed (and Civ, of course) will have a whole new level of immersion to work with. Gonna be exciting.
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In case you missed it, we've paid a bit of attention to WW2 as well over the years. Also, funny you mention the atomic bombs, since those were relatively minor killers compared to firebombings and other deaths in that war from far more mundane sources. Now why would you specifically mention those?
It's because, like it or not, you've just aptly demonstrated that the circumstances surrounding deaths are as important or even more important than the numbers. It's not logical, but damned if humans have ever been logical. I'd presume that some of the reaction to Titanic was the fact that this ship represented one of the biggest, most visible technological achievement of humankind, so to have her sink on her maiden voyage was a bit of a shock to the psyche of the average citizen.
But really, more to the point, Titanic is a compelling story, in the same vein of classic Shakespearean tragedies. Man's hubris challenges God/nature ("God himself could not sink this ship"), and after a perfect storm of events and mistakes, man is proven to be quite fallible, with tragic consequences for the innocent souls on board. There are many individual stories as well. The stoic, grim professionalism that saw the ship's orchestra continue to play when their own doom was at hand. The gentleman and his manservant who adorned their tuxedos, declaring that they would "meet their end as gentleman." The woman who refused to be evacuated without her husband, and insisted her maid take her own place in the lifeboat.
How could these stories not capture the hearts of people?
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Nothing says family movie like watching 1,200 people drown!
No, that would have no drama.
A propper nerd version would have the protagonist fail to convince the captain to slow down.
However when the iceberg is spotted and the captain orders the ship to attempt to evade the nerdy protagonist would know that was a mistake, and would either contramand the captain's order or bypass the steering and take the Titanic directly into the iceberg. This decision would have been foreshadowed in the first act with a technical description of the titanic's watertight chambers. which the daring and clever protagonist realized meant that while the Titanic lacked the agility to evade the iceberg it would not be sunk by a head on collision, but does risk sinking if a glancing impact punctures multiple compartments along the length of the ship.