A Sign that Perhaps You Have too Much Money
Steven L. Taylor
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Monday, April 30, 2012
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Via The Lookout: Australian billionaire plans to build Titanic II
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored
A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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In related news the north pole has decided to build (Iceberg II.)
I have no idea why I did parentheses. Is it the Scotch?
Everybody wants to book a trip on the Titanic, don’t they?
An EXACT replica? Down to the grotty rivets that didn’t hold the ship together the first time?
(By the way, the story that the tin buttons on the coats worn by Napoleon’s soldiers ended up corroding away in the Russian winter due to a phase transition between the different types of tin and the soldiers weren’t able to keep their coats closed–>NOT TRUE. The soldiers ended up dying because you can’t march into the middle of a Russian winter without polar gear and expect to survive. Duh. Now you’ve had your debunking for the day.)
Actually Grumpy…
Well yeah…the soldiers died because it was cold…and the Russians kicked their arses.
My Great-something-Grandfather was a Colonel in the Cavalry of the First Army of the West.
Here’s the link to the theory that the rivets weren’t up to snuff.
Maybe it will run aground on the Somalian coast.
About the only thing this ship will have in common with its namesake is, well, the name. Ship building has advanced quite far since 1912
If I get to have sex with Kate Winslet II, then I will definitely consider it.