Yesterday - ...
sunk ... Titanic hit by iceberg. That may have been the headline of the tabloid press 110 years ago. Those were the days when there was still something to report. Today, on the other hand, the few remaining newspapers, most of which are also only read online and hidden behind a paywall to deny the common people access so they can't inform themselves, which most of them don't want to do (this is what the professional woman calls a win-win situation), are peppered with celebrity news that nobody knows, make-up and diet tips for the open-minded lady and the latest variants of the car manufacturers to multiplyCO2 emissions but call it an environmental initiative.
All these are not things that move people.
Much more important is the fact that icebergs were already floating in the middle of the Atlantic more than 100 years ago. The location of the collision was only known inaccurately until 1987 due to the lack of functioning satellite navigation - one has to wonder how people were able to use their smartphones at all at that time.
The position of the wreck, spread over several square kilometres, corresponds roughly to the latitude of Rome in Italy and New York in the USA; and since the royal mail ship sank hours after the collision on the night of 15 April 1912, it cannot be assumed that it sailed several more nautical miles south to improve its position. It would have been more likely to try to reach the nearest coast in Newfoundland, which was to the north.
Although it is known of the RMS Titanic (the abbreviation, as previously translated, does not stand for something mysterious like Riddle Mystic Shadow or something mundane like Running Motor Swish, but for Royal Mail Ship, as the transport of mail was extremely lucrative due to the also previously mentioned failed satellite communication) that she started her maiden voyage from Southampton after transfer from the shipyard in Belfast, the Greenland Iceberg Union has no record of the icebergs calving on their south coast.
Today we wonder how irresponsible it is to set sail at all without discussing the icebergs' courses with them - just as Chris Rock previously coordinated a joke about hair loss with Jeda Pinkett and Will Smith so that no one would feel offended. It's well known how sensitive the film academy is about human emotions.
Titanic 2 - The Return Voyage
Keyword Hollywood productions: Sequels are so popular that several scripts have already been discussed (see also our article Titanic II sponsored by). The marketing strategists of all the peace- and commerce-loving countries on earth are now calling the plans against the catastrophe climate change, energy change - or also, to do justice to the number one car-driving nation: Transport Turnaround. The term 'turnaround', however, describes a reversal and return - the unanswered question here: to which starting point? The Middle Ages, the Stone Age - or to 1912, when the unsinkable Titanic lived up to its nickname.
Global warming is therefore in no way caused, let alone made, by humans. Since planes did not even fly regularly over the Atlantic before the First World War, how could they be responsible for the sinking of an iceberg? One could still argue with the vibrations in the water from the ship's propellers, which did not exist in Columbus' time, but there are no weather records from that era either, so historically speaking it remains pure speculation.
Nuclear power was more tricky. In fact, 'nuclear power' itself is not used at all, but the artificially generated separation of radioactive particles, which can no longer be stopped, is used to contaminate water, which becomes so hot that it can be used to drive turbines.
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