whta was the titanic made of, to allow the ship to be called unsinkable?
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serious design flaws.
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New Orleans, the Titanic, and the President's approval rating...   why would you give the answer away?  jeeze oh well 2 points  yay
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I lifted this from a cool website about the Titanic and her two sister ships, Olympic and Britannic:\n\nR.M.S. TITANIC\n\n1. The Titanic was the second of three nearly identical sister ships built for the White Star Line. The Olympic was the first ship of the class and the Britannic was the final ship. These vessels were designed to carry three classes of passengers between England and the United States.\n2. The Olympic was the first ship to exceed 800 feet in length and the first to break the 40,000 ton mark. \n3. The Titanic was originally scheduled to leave on her maiden voyage on March 20, 1912. However, a collision between the Olympic and the cruiser Hawke forced White Star to delay Titanic's debut while Olympic was repaired.\n4. The Titanic left Southampton, England on her maiden voyage at noon on April 10, 1912. The ship nearly collided with the liner New York and this delayed the start of the trip by nearly an hour. The ship stopped at Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland before heading for New York on the evening of April 11.\n5. At 11:40 PM on Sunday, April 14, the lookouts in the Crow's Nest spotted an iceberg directly ahead of the Titanic. First Officer Murdoch ordered a hard turn to the left and reversed the engines, but it was too late. Although a head-on collision had been averted, the iceberg scrapped along the right side of the ship, punching small holes and popping out rivets in the hull. The Titanic was divided into 16 watertight compartments and could survive flooding in any 2 sections, and the first four compartments in a dire emergency. This was a fairly safe design that protected the ship form most of the hazards of the sea. Unfortunately, the berg opened up the first six compartments and the pumps could not contain the flooding. The damage was fatal, and nothing could stop the ship from sinking. One of the ship's designers, Thomas Andrews, told Captain Smith that the Titanic would founder (sink) in about two hours. \n6. Because of outdated laws, the Titanic (and most other ships of the time) only had enough lifeboats for about half of the roughly 2200 people on board. Although there were plenty of life jackets, the water temperature was about 28 degrees and people would quickly freeze to death. Women and children were ordered into the lifeboats, but since the Captain did not want to start a panic, the passengers were not told the ship was sinking. Most passengers could not believe that the huge Titanic could sink, so many of the first boats lowered were not filled to capacity. (Contrary to popular myth, the Titanic and her sisters were never advertised as unsinkable.)\n7. As the Titanic sank lower and lower into the freezing water, more and more passengers willingly got into the lifeboats. Whether or not a person got into one of the boats, however, was left to luck. On the left side of the ship the strict rule was women and children only, while on the right side men were allowed in at times. Officers had to fire guns to keep panicking passengers from rushing the boats toward the end. By 2:00 AM, the main lifeboats were gone, leaving about 1600 people onboard. The first funnel fell and killed many people swimming in the water. Two collapsible lifeboats floated off the ship as it sank and some people survived by swimming out to them. In the final seconds the Titanic broke in two between the third and fourth funnels. At about 2:20, two and a half hours after hitting the iceberg, the stern slipped beneath the waves and the Titanic was gone. \n7. The Cunard liner Carpathia rescued the 705 survivors by the afternoon of April 15th. Over 1500 people had been lost. The International Ice Patrol, and the Coast Guard, was established in the wake of the disaster. The laws were changed so that all ships would carry lifeboats for every passenger on board. This is the legacy of the Titanic.\n8. Titanic's sistership Olympic had a long and successful career of nearly 25 years before being retired and
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OMG! that looks intense! the beginning is really sad but then in the middle its just like omg why are these people doing this to jack!? it looks good is it going to be a real movie? i hope so! i want another titanic really badly!!!!
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Extremely unlikely. A lot of time has passed, and within that time, the structure has shifted, pieces of it have collapsed and sunken, and the metal is slowly being eaten away.\n\nSurely any attempt to raise the infrastructure from the surface is going to make it collapse and break apart in numerous ways. The Titanic's remains has been erroding away steadily over the years, and eventually there won't even be much left of it.
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LMAO! That list is as ridiculous as it is horrible.\n\nI like the "example" of the Titanic dude that said even God couldn't sink this ship... the list implies that God's reaction was then, \n\n"Oh yeah! Well I'll just kill all kinds of people, even kids, and that'll show you not to say I can't sink a ship! And YES! I AM that petty! SO nah!"
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No it can't! It's made of plastic and it's too small. Some people have too much imagination.
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I'd never heard of this before. According to Wikipedia, it's just a legend:\n\n"According to legend, Johnson attempted to buy passage on the Titanic's maiden voyage in 1912 but was denied because of his race, thus gaining the "last laugh" on the racists when it sank. This story is commemorated in the song "Titanic" by Leadbelly and a "toast", "Shine and the Titanic," by Arthur "Arturo" Pfister, of New Orleans, Louisiana. (The legend is again given play in the song "Legend of the U.S.S. Titanic" by Jaime Brockett.)"
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TITANIC....its a typical love story...though it ends in not such a good way...but I loved it...it shows true love...
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How about Timber - wood, for ship building. Canada has lots of lumber and the Brits were really, really into ship building around that time.\n\nGood Luck
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Ah, the Spruce Goose was the largest airPLANE ever built. More on that  story below. This person asked about the largest airCRAFT ever built, which would be a dirigible.  "Ended in disaster" must mean the Hindenberg!  I am not sure if the Hindenberg was the absolute largest dirigible, but it certainly was one of the largest. The Hindenberg burst into flames upon docking in New Jersey someplace in the 30's and pretty much ended the Dirigible business. That incident is where we get the phrase "Oh, the humanity!"  which is often mocked, in my opinion inappropriately. That is an interesting whole story itself but is off topic.\n\n\nThe Spruce Goose: During WWII, metals were in short supply;  all those battleships and overseas ore shipping routes inaccessible, I suppose. So, Howard Hughes' aircraft company was encouraged by the government to try and build aircraft from alternative materials.  Wood is light and strong, so it was a natural thought.\n\nProblem is, one piece of wood can have a very different density and even strength than another. Doing the structural analysis on such a craft and keeping it balanced is an absolute NIGHTMARE.  I don't know if the spruce goose itself ever flew but it was a prototype and the conclusion of this engineering study was that this wood idea was impractical for large aircraft. \n\nNo doubt you can find more details on The Hindenberg, The Spruce Goose and "Oh, the Humanity!" in wikipedia.\n\n(This is not quite an Astronomy question.)
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Actually there was such a device according to Mythology. She was called Medusa. She had hair of slithering snakes, she was so hideous that anyone who looked at her turned to stone. Look it up to find out how someone was finally able to kill her while many others tried and failed!
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The Lutine Bell was salvaged from a ship called the Lutine. It hangs in Llyods of London, the insurance brokers and it is rung to warn the brokers of big announcements, once for bad news, twice for good, I believe.
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RMS TITANIC - SPECIFICATIONS\n\n\nLength: 882 feet, 8 inches/268 meters \nGross tonnage: 46,328 tons \nNet tonnage: 24,900 tons \nTotal capacity: 3547 passengers and crew, fully loaded \nDecks: 9 in total (counting the orlop deck) the boat deck, A,B,C,D,E,F,G and below G boiler rooms. \nBeam: 92.5 feet/28 meters \nHeight: 60.5 feet waterline to Boat Deck, 175 feet keel to top of funnels. \nDepth: 59.5 feet \nDraft: about 34 feet \nEngines: 2 reciprocating 4 cylinder, triple expansion, direct - acting, inverted engines: 30,000hp 77 rpm. 1 low pressure Parsons turbine: 16,000hp 165rpm \nPropellers: 3 ; Center turbine: 17 feet ; Left/Right wings: 23 feet 6 inches \nBoilers: 29 (24 double ended boilers and 5 single ended boilers) \nFurnaces: 159 providing a total heating surface of 144,142 sq. feet \nSteam pressure: 215 P.S.I. \nWatertight compartments: 16, extending up to F deck \nLifeboat davits: 14 double acting Welin's with Murrays disengaging gear \nLifeboats: 20 total as follows:\n14 wood lifeboats each 30’0" long by 9’1" by 4’0" deep with a capacity of 65 persons each\n2 wood cutters 25’2" long by 7’2" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 40 persons each\n4 Englehardt collapsible boats 27’5" by 8’0" by 3’0" deep with a capacity of 47 persons each\n\n\nLifeboat Total Rated Capacity: 1,178 persons \nPersonal floatation devices: 3560 life jackets and 49 life buoys \nFuel requirement: 825 tons of coal per day \nWater consumption: 14,000 gallons of fresh water per day \nTop Speed: 23 knots \nStaterooms: 840\nFirst Class: 416\nSecond Class: 162\nThird Class: 262 plus 40 open berthing areas\n\nConstruction and fitting out time:   3 Years \nRivets used in the hull:  3 million\n\nNote: The Titanic was designed to hold 32 lifeboats, though only 20 were on board; White Star management was concerned that too many boats would sully the aesthetic beauty of the ship. \n\nMORE FACTS \n\nCost of a ticket (one way)\n\n\nFirst Class (parlor suite) £870/$4,350 ($69,600 today) \nFirst Class (berth) £30/$150 ($2400 today) \nSecond Class £12/$60 ($960 today) \nThird Class £3 to £8/$40 ($172 to $640 today) \nNote: In 1912, skilled shipyard workers who built Titanic earned £2 ($10) per week. Unskilled workers earned £1 or less per week. A single First Class berth would have cost these workers 4 to 8 months wages.\n\nFee to send a wireless telegram: 12 shillings and sixpence/$3.12 ($50 today), for the first 10 words, and 9 pence per word thereafter. \nPassenger telegrams sent & received during the voyage: over 250.\n\nCost of the Titanic (in 1912): $7,500,000\nCost to build Titanic today: over $400,000,000\n\nCrew Salaries\n\n\nCaptain E.J. Smith, Titanic: £105 a month \nCaptain Rostron, Carpathia: £53 per month \nSeaman Edward Buley: £5 a month \nLook-out G.A. Hogg: £5 and 5 shillings a month \nRadio Operator Harold Bride: £48 per month \nSteward Sidney Daniels: £3 and 15 shillings a month \nStewardess Annie Robinson: £3 and 10 shillings a month \nNote: The range of wages was quite extreme in 1912. In today's money, Captain Smith earned about $100,000 per year while Stewardess Robinson earned only $3300 per year!\n\nPassenger Facilities: \n\n2 Parlor Suites each with a 50 foot private promenade and 67 other First Class Staterooms & Suites. Decorating designs included: Louis Seize, Empire, Adams, Italian Renaissance, Louis Quinze, Louis Quatorze, Georgian, Regency, Queen Anne, Modern Dutch and Old Dutch. Some had marble coal burning fireplaces. \nGymnasium with rowing machines, a stationary bicycle and an electric horse. \nA heated swimming pool (the first ever built into a vessel). \nSquash court on F deck. \nTurkish bath. \n2 Barber shops with automated shampooing and drying appliances available for all classes.. \nFirst & Second class smoking rooms (for the men). \nReading and writing rooms (for the ladies). \nFirst & Second class libraries. \n10,488 square foot First
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Density has to do with the physical makeup of a given object. Buoyancy is the property of displacing water in being able to float. The reason a large steel carrier can float in the water is due to its density characteristics and the resulting floating properties as expressed in its buoyancy. The fact that the ship being a steel shell, weighs less than the amount of displaced water, therefore resulting in the resistance of the water causing the steel superstructure to float. \n\nDarryl S.
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That is right for the hell spoke of in the OT. \n\nIn the NT hell is "the unquenchable fire" actually 3 different definitions in NT for hell. Greek definitions. to much to write.
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First person on an abandoned vessel or to salvage something recognizable from a wreck owns the salvage rights.\n\nIf you could get to the Titanic, leave the gold and jewels, take a life preserver or a logoed piece of china.\n\nWith that you can prove the rest is yours.\n\nEnjoy.