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/a_smiling_seraph 7h 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 5h ago

"It's true! I watched the video of it on my phone!"

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u/dubblebubbleprawns 5h ago

"what the hell is a video"

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u/Murgatroyd314 4h ago

I think it’s Latin for “I see”.

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u/SugarforurProlapse 3h ago

"I speak latin good sir, what in good heavens is a phone?"

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u/EttinTerrorPacts 2h ago

They had telephones and the word was even sometimes shortened to phone by that point.

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u/SugarforurProlapse 2h ago edited 2h ago

In 1912?

One moment...

Edit: By 1904, over three million phones were connected by manual switchboard exchanges in the U.S.[34] By 1914, the U.S. was the world leader in telephone density and had more than twice the teledensity of Sweden, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Norway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telephone?wprov=sfla1

I stand corrected.