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2014-04-30 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Smith and White Star Lines vindicated, Titanic sinking blamed on global warming.

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-30 05:07|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Right. It was the iceberg's fault.

Posted by Bobby 2014-04-30 12:43|| 2014-04-30 12:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Arrest that Iceberg! Send it to Gitmo!

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-30 14:33|| 2014-04-30 14:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Given sufficient global warming,ice bergs will finally be extinct and no longer a threat to anyone. Do it for the children!

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-30 14:52|| 2014-04-30 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 iceberg calving....global warming

Had to be some sort of bovine - environmental connection.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-30 14:57|| 2014-04-30 14:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Riiiiight.... nothing to do with the captain not being vigilant and having proper procedure for waters that were known to have icebergs... nothing to do with the subpar rivets that were weaker than normal rivets due to excess carbon slag...

Seriously, this Global Warming thing is a religion to these people.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-04-30 14:59|| 2014-04-30 14:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Why was there global warming when the amount opf airborne plant-food was so low.

I thought airborne plant-food was the magic one-way insulator that made it warmer on the side the heat isn't.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-04-30 17:26|| 2014-04-30 17:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Soberingly, global warming has increased iceberg hazard greatly in recent decades, making years like 1912 more the norm than the exception.

Really. How many hundreds of ships have been sunk by icebergs since then?

Posted by tu3031 2014-04-30 22:31|| 2014-04-30 22:31|| Front Page Top

#8 The "SS Great Eastern" hit a shoal on it's maiden trip to New York...glided over it, opening a slit in it's hull the size of the Titanic...and carried on to New York, only the crew noticing the event.
Difference was Isambard Kingdom Brunel knew how to build a ship...it took three time as long to dismantle it than to build the Titanic...

Posted by Hotspur666 2014-04-30 22:54|| 2014-04-30 22:54|| Front Page Top

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