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TIL that Morgan Robertson wrote a novel in 1898 about an ocean liner sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. That is 14 years before the Titanic sunk in the same place and in the same way. And if this was not enough, the novel was titled: “The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility”.
You forgot one interesting tidbit- the ship in the novel, just like in real life, was touted as “unsinkable” and therefore did not have enough lifeboats aboard to accommodate all the passengers.
Shows that there were major concerns about ocean liners before the titanic sunk.
The topic had been on people’s minds for some time. Robertson himself would comment he was just familiar with the trends of the day. 12 years before Robertson and 26 years before *Titanic*, William Thomas Stead wrote a story called “[How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid Atlantic by a Survivor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_Mail_Steamer_Went_Down_in_Mid_Atlantic_by_a_Survivor).” The title’s pretty descriptive, with the concern of the story being a lack of adequate safety precautions, specifically lifeboats. Stead himself would die on *Titanic*.
But is the book better than the movie?
Why did old books have two titles?
As ocean liners grew,
As their speed increased,
As the communication between lookouts, helm, and engine room became increasingly distant,
The impact with a large floating mass of ice became almost inevitable.
Theres nothing spooky about someone writing the story of it years before it happened.
The word titan in the story is even used to attribute a very large ship which is the same reason titanic was selected for that ship.
And there were almost no large ships in those days with an appropriate number of life boats. These were all things that people knew about and worried about. Hence the writing if this piece of fiction.
Yes, but do they say anything about the 156000 novels written during 1898 which were **not** about a ship hitting an iceberg in the north atlantic?
Why do people care so much about the Titanic. In 1865, a steamboat called Sultana had a boiler explode and it killed over 1100 people, yet all people can ever talk about is the Titanic.
The man was a time traveller, instead of altering the space-time continuum he just wrote a novel telling the future for the LOL’s
He even maintained plausible deniability
He knew about it because of the morphogenetic field.
9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, anyone?
The Simpsons also had an episode about it, even before the novel was written
If enough people are alive producing creative content, it’s inevitable that these coincidences will occur in one way or another. Sooner or later.
Isn’t there a conspiracy theory that Titanic sinking was to secure banking monopolies? Something something JP Morgan cancelled on his voyage at last minute. Anyone?
Time travelers getting cocky now.
Well, TIL that someone edited the wikipedia page on this article to eliminate a mistake Mr. Robertson made.
See the measurements for the Titan are: 800 feet long, speed 25 knots and weight 45,000 tons; sunk 400 miles away from Newfoundland.
The Titanic’s are 880 feet long, speed 22.5 knots, weight 66000 tons, sunk 400 miles away from Newfoundland.
See the weight? They’re not even close. The last time I read this article, it had the correct weight for the Tiitanic and and a note that the 1912 revision of the book changed the Titan’s weight to a closer value of 70,000. Someone changed the weight of the Titanic to 46000 tons and removed the note.
learned about this from the video game 999 lol
The book was used as the basis for a plan to sink the Titania, a ship that took damage that insurance wouldn’t cover, and that the owner wanted destroyed for the insurance money so he switched the ship names and sent it off into that same dangerous area after reading this book.
Maybe the titanic was inspired by the book?
2 sp00ky 4 me
This is posted here about every 6 months or less.
All proof that the Mossad did it.
Oh man, I just heard about this, it’s crazy right?
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Also, get this Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11! Crazy, right?
Wow. Learning so much here.
Come to think of it, the book could have also been used as a reference for the WHite Star Line to collect on insurance from their shoddy and shitty workmanship plus skipping corners using sub par materials. Even large corporations then are like now, they don’t give a damn about the people, safety, and only money is key.