Add two things:
They had a chance of being amazingly rich beyond a lottery-winner's dreams. Not much of one, but a chance.
Also sailors were pretty much disposable back then.
I was wondering exactly this! I do a lot of underwater work. It sucks to not have something to grab - you have to "swim" constantly opposite of what you are trying to do. Want to scrub the rudder? You have to swim at it or you just push yourself off and get no scrubbing done. So I get sent to space to scrub the space station and my years of scrubbing training will NOT work. I'll just launch myself into space for good.
I have a dog that is a mixed breed about 40 pounds. She catches rabbits for me and racoons. She LOVES to catch mice. She will even do a co-op hunt with my cats. The cats will go GET HER when they detect a mouse and all three go after it. The cats like to herd it towards the dog which then kills it.
If you recall, the Tines (really dogs/wolves - not rats) ended up making wearable radios to extend their intra-pack comms beyond the range of the ultrasound. The packs thus equipped could spread out for miles. JUST LIKE what we just did with the rats.
What I think might be causing confusion was some references to the Titanic's radio operator being too busy with passenger "look at me - I'm on a ship" messages to bother with ice warnings. This happened some time BEFORE they hit the iceberg, not after.
My interest in this thing just dropped to less than zero. The engines would - by FAR - be the coolest part of the whole ship. I went on a short trip aboard a steam powered ship and spent the whole time in the engine room watching the triple-expansion engine. Anyway, steam ships are still being built. Some LNG tankers use the gas that boils off to run the boiler.
Sorry - bullshit. The most certainly did send distress signals. The operator on the closest ship was *sleeping* and another ship from over 100 miles away came to the rescue steaming balls-to-the-wall with the passengers freezing because they turned off the steam radiators for extra power.
Why would the engine NOISE be different. I can't imagine they won't use oil-fired boilers, but the actual engines will still get the same steam as always, or did I miss something?
The ship will be unable to get insurance or clearance into most ports without meeting 2013 safety regs, so I doubt they will be recreating the ship THAT exactly.
Besides for THAT, "steerage" aboard the Titanic was NICER than the homes most of them came from and for many was their FIRST exposure to running water and flush toilets!
That said, the evil of *unregulated* capitalism led the owners to sail with inadequate safety equipment. After the Titanic rules were put in place that made sea travel much safer.
If DHS steals a rich person's boat, they can get another. If they steal MY boat, that is pretty much most of my net worth gone. So GO RICH PEOPLE - Get as much publicity as you can if DHS abuses you. It will make it better for me too!
All other issues aside, I am ROFLMAO at some blue collar guy working his balls off to send his kids off to college so they could work with their minds instead of their hands and then finding his grad student kids shoveling coal for a living!
I can drive my car 50 MPH over the speed limit and still get to work and back...............just sayin. (cops and traffic notwithstanding)
BTW, when not it jam mode driving the speed limit on a major highway would make you a major obstacle to traffic at best.
BMW uses a running average of MPG in the last X minutes and fuel remaining. I had 50 miles on the computer and 25 miles on the GPS to a gas station. I kind of forgot I had to CLIMB A STEEP MOUNTAIN at one point and the miles-to-go dropped fast. I was on *1* when I got to the station and the car took 14.6 gallons. IIRC the tank holds 14.6 gallons!
We have a fleet of electric cars in Annapolis that take people around town for free that are financed by local bars and restaurants. I was talking to a driver and they told me the heat KILLS the range. They use little propane camping heaters in cold weather.
Well I graduated from the OTHER flight school/college in Florida and both of them have decades of experience getting a LOT of money for training in career fields with iffy prospects at best. Example: Our graduation class of "Aviation Managers" was more than the entire worldwide demand for that degree.
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Add two things: They had a chance of being amazingly rich beyond a lottery-winner's dreams. Not much of one, but a chance. Also sailors were pretty much disposable back then.
Wow -that is................exactly like the USA (well maybe one month instead of three here)
I was wondering exactly this! I do a lot of underwater work. It sucks to not have something to grab - you have to "swim" constantly opposite of what you are trying to do. Want to scrub the rudder? You have to swim at it or you just push yourself off and get no scrubbing done. So I get sent to space to scrub the space station and my years of scrubbing training will NOT work. I'll just launch myself into space for good.
I have a dog that is a mixed breed about 40 pounds. She catches rabbits for me and racoons. She LOVES to catch mice. She will even do a co-op hunt with my cats. The cats will go GET HER when they detect a mouse and all three go after it. The cats like to herd it towards the dog which then kills it.
I can't see this lasting long. Already sent to AOPA.
RIAA and MPAA sue for prior art too!
If you recall, the Tines (really dogs/wolves - not rats) ended up making wearable radios to extend their intra-pack comms beyond the range of the ultrasound. The packs thus equipped could spread out for miles. JUST LIKE what we just did with the rats.
What I think might be causing confusion was some references to the Titanic's radio operator being too busy with passenger "look at me - I'm on a ship" messages to bother with ice warnings. This happened some time BEFORE they hit the iceberg, not after.
My interest in this thing just dropped to less than zero. The engines would - by FAR - be the coolest part of the whole ship. I went on a short trip aboard a steam powered ship and spent the whole time in the engine room watching the triple-expansion engine. Anyway, steam ships are still being built. Some LNG tankers use the gas that boils off to run the boiler.
Sorry - bullshit. The most certainly did send distress signals. The operator on the closest ship was *sleeping* and another ship from over 100 miles away came to the rescue steaming balls-to-the-wall with the passengers freezing because they turned off the steam radiators for extra power.
Why would the engine NOISE be different. I can't imagine they won't use oil-fired boilers, but the actual engines will still get the same steam as always, or did I miss something?
The ship will be unable to get insurance or clearance into most ports without meeting 2013 safety regs, so I doubt they will be recreating the ship THAT exactly.
Besides for THAT, "steerage" aboard the Titanic was NICER than the homes most of them came from and for many was their FIRST exposure to running water and flush toilets! That said, the evil of *unregulated* capitalism led the owners to sail with inadequate safety equipment. After the Titanic rules were put in place that made sea travel much safer.
You may want to research the following term: "slumming" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slumming Getting some from the peasants is not an unknown activity.
If DHS steals a rich person's boat, they can get another. If they steal MY boat, that is pretty much most of my net worth gone. So GO RICH PEOPLE - Get as much publicity as you can if DHS abuses you. It will make it better for me too!
As a private boat owner for decades now - FUCK YOU you commie asswipe. Having a country so poor no one can buy a boat would suck balls.
All other issues aside, I am ROFLMAO at some blue collar guy working his balls off to send his kids off to college so they could work with their minds instead of their hands and then finding his grad student kids shoveling coal for a living!
Tough for them. Seriously you are like a work-release prisoner.
I can drive my car 50 MPH over the speed limit and still get to work and back ...............just sayin. (cops and traffic notwithstanding)
BTW, when not it jam mode driving the speed limit on a major highway would make you a major obstacle to traffic at best.
BMW uses a running average of MPG in the last X minutes and fuel remaining. I had 50 miles on the computer and 25 miles on the GPS to a gas station. I kind of forgot I had to CLIMB A STEEP MOUNTAIN at one point and the miles-to-go dropped fast. I was on *1* when I got to the station and the car took 14.6 gallons. IIRC the tank holds 14.6 gallons!
We have a fleet of electric cars in Annapolis that take people around town for free that are financed by local bars and restaurants. I was talking to a driver and they told me the heat KILLS the range. They use little propane camping heaters in cold weather.
YES!!!!!!!!! If it wasn't for the *scheduling* in Outlook, no one would care about Word.
I'll have to see if the microwave tries to escape next time I heat up my coffee then LOL
Don't we ALREADY HAVE some kind of ion engine that converts electricity to thrust without the intermediate step of a kitchen appliance?
Well I graduated from the OTHER flight school/college in Florida and both of them have decades of experience getting a LOT of money for training in career fields with iffy prospects at best. Example: Our graduation class of "Aviation Managers" was more than the entire worldwide demand for that degree.