[HN Gopher] Lego to release a 9,090-piece scale model of the Tit...
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Lego to release a 9,090-piece scale model of the Titanic
Author : hackertux
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-10-08 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
| jeffthechimp wrote:
| But Legos float
| gerdesj wrote:
| Pretty sure they don't if you expel all trapped air.
|
| Its this stuff:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylonitrile_butadiene_styren...
| which has a density > 1 x 10^3 kg/m^3 ie 1 g per cc. Water is
| slightly less than 1.
|
| Lego sinks.
| wrfitch wrote:
| https://youtu.be/3FxfXVuHRjM
|
| Lego does indeed sink
| gweinberg wrote:
| Bet they float in salt water.
| gerdesj wrote:
| I don't bath in salt water so never tested that.
|
| According to WP: "The density of surface seawater ranges
| from about 1020 to 1029 kg/m3"
|
| According to WP: ABS is 1.060-1.080 g/cm3
|
| Lego sinks in seawater.
|
| If you saturate a beaker of water with salt then lets go
| here for some results because I can't be arsed to go back
| to school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_water
|
| Roughly 1.193 g/cm3 which is more dense than ABS so Lego
| will float in salt (NaCl) saturated water.
| egypturnash wrote:
| They make boat sets with little weighted keel pieces that will
| give them enough weight to sit nicely in the water; this might
| have some form of ballast inside it somewhere...
| [deleted]
| srvmshr wrote:
| This could be somewhat unpopular as an opinion, but Titanic's
| sinking has been romanticized greatly, fueled partly by a slew of
| Hollywood movies. There were several great ships marking their
| firsts - Titanic was just one of them of its time.
|
| If we delve into 20th century maritime history, passenger
| accounts & disaster records of ships such as SS Lusitania or MV
| Wilhelm Gustloff were far more shocking to read, as compared to
| RMS Titanic.
| CharlesW wrote:
| No disrespect intended, but I really enjoyed reading this in
| Comic Book Guy's voice.
| gerdesj wrote:
| I'm 50 and hence rather older than several films on the
| subject. Titanic has always been held up as _the_ ship wreck
| within my lifetime for several reasons. I think the key one is
| the notion that she was considered unsinkable and yet sank on
| her maiden voyage. In Belfast, where she was built, they like
| to say she was fine when she left there. Schadenfreude.
|
| When she left Soton for NY, there was a long, slow burning fire
| in one of her coal bunkers. Apparently this was fairly common
| in steam ships. This ship was absolutely massive for the time
| and let's face it a set of steam engines/turbines of that size,
| powered by coal are essentially explosions waiting to happen in
| many places. That's basically how they work too. Then you stick
| it on an extremely unforgiving ocean and plough a track over
| several 1000 miles at a pretty high speed. Add crew and
| passengers and a huge number of distractions and other
| operational things like plumbing and you have a recipe for
| disaster simmering away.
|
| How the crew avoided going mad on these monstrous Heath
| Robinson (Rube Goldberg for the left pond) contraptions is
| absolutely beyond me. I'm not too surprised that she hit an
| iceberg if the boss decided to head into an ice field, just to
| shave a few hours on the crossing time. This is a vessel that
| steers like an iceberg and is basically staffed by crew who are
| already half maddened by the complexity of stopping her from
| exploding or worrying about the pre dinner champagne being too
| warm.
|
| She also had a few other firsts and I think that she sent the
| first SOS over wireless, all this stuff adds to the story. Add
| in a few conspiracies (was she really the Olympic - that's a no
| for me) and that is really why she gets top billing. The films
| are a result not a cause.
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| Some other details:
|
| The captain had a remarkably good record of safety. This
| likely both helped cause the accident (it is believed he
| didn't react quickly enough) and helped make it shocking that
| it happened at all.
|
| It was a civilian ship, so we likely have a fuller picture of
| what happened helping to make the story interesting. Military
| vessels often cannot have their full story told for reasons
| of national security. The most compelling details may be
| classified, removing juicy tidbits from the public record.
|
| Enough people survived to tell the tale in substantial
| detail, giving us compelling tidbits like "the band played
| on." One survivor was a socialite who became known as The
| Unsinkable Molly Brown and her life inspired both plays and
| films.
|
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Brown
|
| Some people see the sinking as _an act of God,_ punishment
| for hubris because they bragged it was unsinkable. For people
| who want to believe in a spiritual view of things or karma,
| it 's psychologically and emotionally compelling that they
| made the brag and then not only did it sink, it did so on the
| ship's maiden voyage. It's like a story a hack author would
| write to promote ideas like "Don't be a braggart, you foolish
| fool!" only it really happened.
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