And to be honest, I understand fascination with the Titanic. I just didn't understand the fascination with obscenely rich people doing stupid stuff and paying the ultimate price for it. I don't draw the parallel that because they were going down to see the Titanic, that this ultimately has anything to do with the Titanic. So I don't know why someone would ascribe Titanic fascination to this idiocy.
That said, I heartily enjoy the discussions about titanium and carbon fiber. That's learning some new stuff that's a HELL of a lot more interesting than rich people dying from taking risks they shouldn't have.
I understand the fascination with the Titanic for people back in 1912. Not now. Not 30 years ago. It was big, it hit an iceberg, it sank. Why give a shit now? I went on a cruise ship that dwarfs the Titanic and I guess since it didn't sink, nobody cares. Hell, it would have been amazing if it struck an iceberg, as it was in the Caribbean, lol.
But I have to really ask you about this separation of the Titanic and rich people doing stupid stuff. None of us would even know about the Titanic nowadays if it wasn't a maiden voyage with lots of rich people on it (and dying). I see a direct connection.
It's not that it was stupid for rich people to sail on it, but so much of the romanticism (or tragedy) is the caste levels of the people on board - how ornate the first class experience was, the much higher % of deaths in the bottom levels, etc.
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Idk man, I'm not like stewing down in a basement frothing at the mouth over this stuff, it's just fucking weird.
Mention it on the nightly news for 15 seconds. Move on.
Instead we have a society-wide breakdown of every angle, a detailed timeline, etc.
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Some people did a dangerous thing and died. We don't have a thread on some family of hikers who set up camp in grizzly bear country and got eaten up.
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I just see this magnifying glass on the submersible thing akin to people who watch multiple seasons of "Searching for Bigfoot." Like...what are you doing?
