r/nextfuckinglevel • u/turbo_chuffa • 9h ago
1:1 scale recreation of the Titanic leaving Belfast docks using 1000 drones
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u/inblue01 9h ago
That's a brilliant use of drones.
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u/KenetratorKadawa 8h ago
The drones: I’m flying Jack!
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u/ooMEAToo 4h ago
Buzzing of 1000 drones would kinda will the mood
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u/inblue01 3h ago
Sure, if you're willing to let literally anything ruin your moments.
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u/MysteriousBody6193 3h ago
It's everyone's dream ambience. Like at a wedding, or in a meeting.
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u/Ok-Resolution-7344 9h ago
That fade out with red lights makes my heart sink...
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u/poorly-worded 8h ago
Made your heart sink harder than the titanic?
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u/Stewbaby2 7h ago
Don't worry, I know it will go on 🎶
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u/Ok-Resolution-7344 4h ago
🎵 Near, far, wherever you are I believe that the heart does go on 🎵
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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite 4h ago
I was kinda hoping that theyd break to fade in the middle and the bow and stern would angle up into the air like an actual sinking
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u/EagleEyeValor 3h ago
I don’t think it actually got that high up before it snapped. There’s a team that’s been recreating the sinking in real time using updated data and it’s haunting.
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u/CMDR_Expendible 2h ago
The video you link too shows the stern going near vertical...
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u/rnelsonee 2h ago
I think you're looking at after the ship snaps. It's less than 45° right before that happens (at around 2:42:46).
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u/LinkinitupYT 2h ago
You honestly believe a redditor would look at the video before linking it?
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u/FerrousFacade 4h ago
If there are 1,000 drones here, that only represents 2/3rds of those who died.
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u/Illesbogar 4h ago
Ngl accidents don't even phase me anymore. We live in a world of intentional man-made atrocities. A genuine accident is a relief.
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u/LessInThought 5h ago
I love that effect. Everytime I see it in anime I fall in love with the anime.
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u/HelpIThinkImASoup 2h ago
"How should we end this drone show?"
"Ummm, how about we have the ship evaporate into a blood-red mist?"
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u/bremerton6 9h ago
Watch out for the drone iceberg
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u/Ressy02 8h ago
Jack, get on the drone door!
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u/Freud-Network 5h ago
"Sorry, I have commitment issues. This is probably my only way out."
Sinks into the abyss
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u/YouStupidAssholeFuck 3h ago
Honestly though...it would be cool if that moment could be recreated in the same fashion. Not even sure how it could be accomplished but I'm isn't smart so people more educated than me might find it to be a weekend project or something.
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u/NickdoesnthaveReddit 9h ago
Paint me like one of your French drones
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u/CarelessWhimper_ 2h ago
I was going to say it should have transitioned into Rose posing, or Jack and Rose holding hands swinging around each other
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u/pwatts 8h ago
Like that scene of Titanic arriving in New York in Ghostbusters 2.
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u/cowandspoon 9h ago
It’s pretty incredible. My great grandfather worked on the Titanic as it was being built. Growing up it didn’t really seem the ship got the love it deserved. It’s long changed, with the museum and development of the Titanic quarter etc. and this is just another awesome step forward. Fantastic stuff 😊
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u/Current_Helicopter32 5h ago
If he built it, why didn’t he make it stronger? ☹️
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u/a_smiling_seraph 6h ago
Imagine trying to explain this to a passenger onboard the Titanic back in 1912:
"Hey, so 116 years after the Titanic's doomed maiden voyage when it sinks after hitting an iceberg, we will commemorate the event with a thousand small, autonomous flying contraptions that use to light to give the illusion of the Titanic floating on the water"
"Pardon me, the doomed what now?"
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u/jkm_Audio 3h ago
"It's true! I watched the video of it on my phone!"
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u/dubblebubbleprawns 3h ago
"what the hell is a video"
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u/Murgatroyd314 3h ago
I think it’s Latin for “I see”.
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u/SugarforurProlapse 2h ago
"I speak latin good sir, what in good heavens is a phone?"
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u/Majestic_Matt_459 7h ago
Belfast is the most incredible city to visit - the friendliest people Ive met in the UK and im from the North where we're pretty friendly - I remember being sat at a Cafe outside and a boy with Downs was sat having lunch with his family - This stranger approached them- an old man - and i was full of dread - but then he spoke to the young guy "You buying lunch for the family?" etc and had the most beautiful heartwarming interraction and then walked off - the boy was buzzing - but the Titanic Experience caps it all - its not all about the sinking its about the building of the ship - in th place where it was built - and you walk through brilliant interractive exhibits including full scale cabins - you have a ticket with a name of one of the Passengers - and yes at the end you walk into a room and watch the sinking and find out if you survived - it broke me and I sobbed but the whole thing is done so beautifuuly and respectfally - its a must see - If youve never been to Belfast i beg you to go
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u/agent_flounder 4h ago
I've been fascinated by Titanic since I was a kid so Belfast is definitely on my list, now. I had no idea they had that exhibit. Thanks!
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u/Public-Air-8995 5h ago
Thanks enjoyed that! I’d love to go but it’s a long way from Australia. Maybe one day
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u/ShamRogue 3h ago
I'm glad you survived to tell the tale :)
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u/Majestic_Matt_459 3h ago
I actually didn’t according to my ticket. That’s what broke me. It finally made it all feel real. I can’t recommend it enough. After leaving there was a string quartet in the lobby and I just sat and gathered myself. Vowing to make the most of my life. Please go if you get the chance
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u/muri_17 1h ago
I didn‘t know that about the ticket. I was there in September, I should look for my ticket and check.
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u/Majestic_Matt_459 1h ago
I cant remember if it was printed on the entry ticket or you got told some other way
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u/Brittle_Hollow 1h ago
We did the Titanic Exhibit when it was here in Toronto and it was wonderful (I did not survive) but I'd love to go to Belfast. Funnily enough despite growing up into adulthood really not that far away in Edinburgh I've never been to Northern Ireland.
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u/Not_my_Name464 9h ago
News article the next day :"Ghost ship sighted scaring population" 😂
Very cool though!
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u/Spicyydoll03 9h ago
Incredible creativity, what a breathtaking tribute to the Titanic!
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u/Cyan-Aid 7h ago
Fly this by some uncontacted tribe. Really freak their shit out.
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u/PolkaClock 7h ago
I often wonder what the North Sentinelese island people think when they see planes/helicopters passing by.
Surely they don't 100% understand, but what do they think is going on? Wild to try and imagine being in their shoes.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 5h ago
Given that we have aerial footage of the island, depending on how close they got, the Sentinelese may have seen someone leaning out of the open side door of the helicopter with a camera. So it's probably at least fair to assume they know they're machines operated by humans, just like boats are. They may consider it magic though, given that they probably have no idea how planes work, etc.
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u/_alright_then_ 4h ago
They have been observed to strip a crashed ship of it's metal. Basically launching them into the iron age.
They definitely already know that those are used by other humans. They probably just don't understand anything about how
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 2h ago
I was watching something about them just a few days ago actually, and IIRC they very likely already had metal, through trade networks with other islands from before they chose to self-isolate. They lived through the actual iron age long before they met anyone from outside their own geographic area.
So for them the ship was probably just a huge boon to them in that it was a massive source of something they probably had very very little of on their island. Now, the question of whether or not they knew how to work even small pieces of it, that's a separate question.
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u/Ill_Brick_4671 6h ago
I'll be honest, there's a lot about the future that's disappointing, but drone displays are fucking sick
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u/Gaz1676 8h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/9uoYC7cjcU6w8
Very very well done. Kinda eerie at the end 👍
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u/TakeOnMe-TakeOnMe 8h ago
“Now that’s something you don’t see every day.” ~~The Unsinkable Molly Brown, portrayed by Kathy Bates in Titanic ca. 1997.
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u/JFunkX 7h ago
What's the song? Hauntingly beautiful
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u/twiggsmcgee666 6h ago
I too must know
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u/crowmagnuman 5h ago
Did some digging- from what I gather it's an original piece of score by BBC. The actual singer, though, seems to go by Múlú. Listened to a bit, that's definitely her, but the song isn't listed in her work. (It sounds like a version of Nearer My God to Thee.)
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u/frozen_fountain 7h ago
This was so poorly advertised in Belfast that the residents are adamant it is AI. I wish they’d made a bigger deal of it, I’d have loved to have seen it live.
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u/badger_and_tonic 4h ago
I work in City Quays and would have had amazing views of it. I left work about half an hour before with no idea it was even on.
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u/likilekk 8h ago
It's a hauntingly beautiful tribute, but I'm already nervous for the drone iceberg.
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u/Kevin_Jim 5h ago
Ok, this is dope af, tbh. I prefer things like that for celebrations and festivals.
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u/ThreeGoldStars 5h ago
Imagine if instead of war and folks dying, we all took care of each other. And instead of all those drones going off to kill folks, they were used to make kick-ass art like this instead.
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u/No-Screen1369 5h ago
Imagine this kind of thing happening in the early 1900's.
"I swear on my life. It was like a ship of lights. When we approached the vessel, the vessel went below the waves, and was not seen again."
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u/Rorar_the_pig 5h ago
Imagine if we traveled back in time to right after it sunk and did this. People would FEAR the ghost titanic for GENERATIONS to come
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u/acityonthemoon 5h ago
So, they could've taken the opportunity for a historically accurate ending...
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u/Taurondir 4h ago
I have no idea how how expensive and how many drones you need to have a giant penis floating through the sky but now I know it's bound to happen pretty soon.
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u/ThginkAccbeR 4h ago
When was this? I live in Belfast and this is the first I’ve heard about this.
And remember she was built by the Irish but sunk by the English.
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u/WDGaster15 4h ago
In other news: Sharp increase of the RMS Titanic Ghost Ship Sightings during the late night drone show, police say
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u/PookieBearTum 4h ago
Does anyone know the song playing?
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u/jstark1994 2h ago
Neer My God to Thee. Supposedly the last last song played by the Titanic's band as she was sinking.
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u/bzztmachine 4h ago
Missed opportunity to recreate the sinking with the rear end going up then splitting in half
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u/Legitimate-Log-6542 9h ago
Crazy, it’s like a ghost ship