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Monissa Sep 8, 2025

The violin of Wallace Hartley, bandleader of the band which played while the ship was sinking.

It was recovered and returned to his fiancee Maria, and sold after her death.

(At #Titantic Belfast.)

Some Geek Told Me Apr 15, 2025

On this day in 1912, the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage, struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and sank. It travelled from Southampton, England, to New York City, USA. Of the estimated 2,224 people on board, over 1,500 died; which is a 67% death rate. #FactsMatter #Titantic

EdTech Situation Room Jan 3, 2025

AI's Humorous Roast by @neif on #edtechSR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tir3qYnKApQ

#AI #edtech #ChatGPT #titantic

AI's Humorous Roast

YouTube

CausesEffects Aug 11, 2024

#Trump using the #Titantic theme song at his rally was so on point. I can think of no other theme song that best suits the Trump campaign.

Hacker News Jul 20, 2024

Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic game website (1998)
http://starshiptitanic.com/
#ycombinator #Starship_Titanic #Douglas_Adams #Titanic #adventure_game #CD_ROM #The_Digital_Village #Hitch #Hikers #Hitchhikers #Hitch_hiker_s #Hitch_hikers #Hitchhiker_s #hiker_s #titantic #Simon_Schuster #Simon #Schuster

Douglas Adams's Starship Titanic

The Official Website for Douglas Adams' Starship Titanic - An incredible new adventure game for PC CD-ROM.

Longreads Jun 12, 2024

"While carbon fiber has been used in everything from cars to rockets, no one had ever dived in a deep-water carbon-fiber submersible. Rush wanted to be the first."

For WIRED, Mark Harris dives into tens of thousands of internal #OceanGate emails and documents to piece together what happened in the years leading up to the #Titan #submersible tragedy in June 2023: https://www.wired.com/story/titan-submersible-disaster-inside-story-oceangate-files

#Longreads #DeepSea #Ocean #Titantic

The Titan Submersible Disaster Shocked the World. The Exclusive Inside Story Is More Disturbing Than Anyone Imagined

A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.

WIRED

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈May 24, 2024

As others have pointed out, the party appointed Prime Minister fails to lean into the irony of a situation, something British Voters would appreciate, instead like his rain announcement he just arrogantly tries to walk it off but doesn't have the gravitas to accomplish even that.

That thing about rich men getting too close to the Titanic.....

https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/news-opinion/captaining-sinking-ship-prime-ministers-29233530

#GE2024 #RishiSunak #NIpol #Titantic

Captaining a sinking ship - The Prime Minister's shambolic visit to NI

From press being sent to the wrong location to confusion around when interviews would take place, the writers of The Thick of It would have had plenty of material to work with

Belfast Live

Shani 🫧Aug 31, 2023

I can’t watch the end of #Titantic without hearing Keke Palmer’s commentary in my head! She was so right! They could have taken turns! “The cold part about it…!” 🤣