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Misslizard wrote:
They need to go back to where they came from.Damm time travelers.We gotta build a wall to stop this.
And.....
make our dead ancestors PAY for it!! !! !! !
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08 Aug 2017, 11:11 am
Okay... that's kinda spooky 
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27 Oct 2017, 8:08 pm
to add to the eeriness, this is the 13th post. 
anybody remember a book called "futility"? written by Morgan Robertson in 1899, it, by name, predicted the titanic disaster that would happen 13 years after the book was written.
27 Oct 2017, 8:39 pm
auntblabby wrote:
to add to the eeriness, this is the 13th post. anybody remember a book called "futility"? written by Morgan Robertson in 1899, it, by name, predicted the titanic disaster that would happen 13 years after the book was written.
anybody remember a book called "futility"? written by Morgan Robertson in 1899, it, by name, predicted the titanic disaster that would happen 13 years after the book was written.I know about that book. I read a book about the history of transatlantic ocean liners ("Rivalry on the Atlantic") when I was a teen and the book mentioned that book. The Titanic story is so compelling that the first novel about it predated the event itself!
Morgan Robertson I believe was a sea captain himself. He wrote a novel in which the main character has adventures. One of them is sailing on a luxury liner named "The Titan". The author was aware of the keen competition between shipping lines and the nations (US, UK, Germany, France) in passenger ship building of the time. So he simply extrapolated the trends in ship design of his time a little bit into the future and invented a fictional passenger liner bigger than any of his time, but similar to that of the actual ship that was his fictional ship's near namesake "the Titanic".
His "Titan" sets sail on it maiden voyage, hits a iceberg, and sinks, taking most of it's compliment of crew and passenger (thousands) with it.
Eerie in some ways.
But there were differences between the fictional and the real ship. Even after 80 years of steam ship technology ocean going ships (including ocean liners) still had auxillary sails (full rigged masts with square sails) when Morgan wrote in the 1890's. So his fictional liner had tall masts with sails as well as having steam engines. Only a few years after the book was published the Germans began building liners with no sails, and four smokestacks (the early modern liner look that the later Titanic had).
His fictional ship slammed right into the iceberg in a head on collision, and actually skidded up the side of the floating ice mountain, before its wrecked hull slide back into the sea and sank. The real Titanic barely brushed against the iceberg along its side, and no one aboard even felt a shudder. But ice still managed to rip a long gash below the water line.
27 Oct 2017, 9:08 pm
the book mentions "Trump Castle"
"Trump Castle" was a real casino at one point ....
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27 Oct 2017, 9:11 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
to add to the eeriness, this is the 13th post. anybody remember a book called "futility"? written by Morgan Robertson in 1899, it, by name, predicted the titanic disaster that would happen 13 years after the book was written.
anybody remember a book called "futility"? written by Morgan Robertson in 1899, it, by name, predicted the titanic disaster that would happen 13 years after the book was written.I know about that book. I read a book about the history of transatlantic ocean liners ("Rivalry on the Atlantic") when I was a teen and the book mentioned that book. The Titanic story is so compelling that the first novel about it predated the event itself!
Morgan Robertson I believe was a sea captain himself. He wrote a novel in which the main character has adventures. One of them is sailing on a luxury liner named "The Titan". The author was aware of the keen competition between shipping lines and the nations (US, UK, Germany, France) in passenger ship building of the time. So he simply extrapolated the trends in ship design of his time a little bit into the future and invented a fictional passenger liner bigger than any of his time, but similar to that of the actual ship that was his fictional ship's near namesake "the Titanic".
His "Titan" sets sail on it maiden voyage, hits a iceberg, and sinks, taking most of it's compliment of crew and passenger (thousands) with it.
Eerie in some ways.
But there were differences between the fictional and the real ship. Even after 80 years of steam ship technology ocean going ships (including ocean liners) still had auxillary sails (full rigged masts with square sails) when Morgan wrote in the 1890's. So his fictional liner had tall masts with sails as well as having steam engines. Only a few years after the book was published the Germans began building liners with no sails, and four smokestacks (the early modern liner look that the later Titanic had).
His fictional ship slammed right into the iceberg in a head on collision, and actually skidded up the side of the floating ice mountain, before its wrecked hull slide back into the sea and sank. The real Titanic barely brushed against the iceberg along its side, and no one aboard even felt a shudder. But ice still managed to rip a long gash below the water line.
it makes one ponder the nature of the collective unconscious, and how time is but an illusion, that all events in all of god's creation happen simultaneously but that our limited mind has to put them in a queue, one after the other.
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