Futility, The Titan, The Titanic and FBD...

[Hal-9000]

There was a fictional novella written called Futility (or The Wreck of the Titan), and it describes a huge ocean liner hitting an iceberg and sinking. In the story, the ship didn't carry enough lifeboats and more than half of the passengers died as a result.

Where is gets super creepy is that the story was published 14 years before the sinking of the Titanic :shock:


Wait, it gets better...

name of ship - Titan
name of ship - Titanic

Titan - 800 feet long
Titanic - 882 feet long

Titan - triple screw propeller
Titanic - triple screw propeller

Titan - described as unsinkable
Titanic - described as unsinkable

Titan - carried less than half of the lifeboats needed to evacuate all passengers and crew
Titanic - carried less that half of the lifeboats needed to evacuate all passengers

Titan - potential total crew and passenger complement - 3000
Titanic - potential total crew and passenger complement - 3000

Titan - struck an iceberg one night in April
Titanic - struck an iceberg April 14, 1912

Titan - moving at 25 knots hit an iceberg 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) away from Newfoundland
Titanic - moving at 22.5 knots hit an iceberg 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) away from Newfoundland

Titan - sank and more than half of her 2500 passengers died
Titanic - sank and more than half of her 2200 passengers and crew died



:-k :-k :-k



These are not mild coincidences. The size, ships compliment, location of disaster, date of disaster, reason for disaster and lifeboat count are eerily like a prediction from the author...





Sooooo FBD, wtf happened? :lol:

[deebakes]

unfortunately 300 people stayed at the shore :x

[Hal-9000]

original book release cover art :lol:



http://i.imgur.com/UzeywjQ.jpg



Apparently the author re-released it in 1912

[Hal-9000]

from one website citing the creepiness :

Did the White Star Line just build it to spec on a dare?


:lol:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

I'll tell you what happened. Banksters had insurance.

[FBD]

The entire reason the titanic was sunk was because of the political climate and the gearup for the creation of the federal reserve - some very wealthy and influential people (who it would seem had a bit of conscience) were on this voyage to help stop the creation of the creature from jeckyll island.


women and children first, indeed - Edward Smith was paid well and did not go down at the helm as is customary for when a captain makes a decision so poor it costs hundreds upon hundreds of lives. (though of course, history records he did just this, but you know the "victors" will tell the story any way they want it to be read by future generations.)

first class people got evacuated and if you were beneath deck, you were fucked, you were no different than any of the 3000 that were murdered on 911 ;)

[Hal-9000]

:-k

What I was getting at is how did the author write a story with so many of the details coming true 14 years later? Was he a psychic, a visionary....or did someone use his prose as a template for a terrorist act over a decade later?

[FBD]

I think it had to do with the fact that at 5 years old, he was beside his pops on a ship, and he was a first mate on a sea vessel by the time he was 17. He simply had intimate knowledge and some intellect. I think if anything, the bankers saw an easy way to murder some rivals in that story, and mimic'd it. It was easy because there was already a story of it, "a plausible one at that"...perfect, make it so!

[deebakes]

so they purposely ran into the iceberg? :-k

[FBD]

http://www.ggwallpaper.com/file/4332/600x338/16:9/breaking-bad-ding-ding-ding_494574159.jpg
http://www.solanaleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/winner.png

[Hal-9000]

any thoughts on this one FBD? :lol:









http://i.imgur.com/iJLjLdE.jpg