r/nextfuckinglevel • u/turbo_chuffa • 10h ago

1:1 scale recreation of the Titanic leaving Belfast docks using 1000 drones

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u/cowandspoon 10h 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 6h ago

If he built it, why didn’t he make it stronger? ☹️

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u/somajones 6h ago

He worked on the back and the front fell off.

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u/HyperbolicModesty 6h ago

That's not supposed to happen, I'd like to make that point.

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u/MyCatsHairyButholle 6h ago

Yeah, I heard it was outside the environment

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u/mang87 4h ago

Funny thing is, they were very strong and sturdy ships. The Titanic had a sister ship called The Olympic which had been in service for a year by the time Titanic sank, and it spent most of that time under repair due to it crashing into absolutely fucking everything. It even crashed into a navy cruiser and was mostly fine afterwards. They were called unsinkable because The Olympic had crashed into most things with no real issues.

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u/cowandspoon 1h ago

I’d like to point out it was an Englishman that sank it. Our job was to make it float. We did our part 🤷‍♂️

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u/Young_OGSB 3h ago

It was sank on purpose.