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I'm ashamed of the crap quality (ironically, I'll put the vector artists' tag on here to credit them, but I'm reluctant to put my own…), but I just wanted to throw something together real quick to reflect on something really neat…

We've come a long way.

"Titanic" in 2018 would need for satellite iceberg tracking and surface search radars and everything to come together and fail in an extremely unlikely way. But you know, with so many thousands of voyages doing their rounds, a 1-in-a1,000 thing does still sometimes happen, but the two or three times it has, nobody was even hurt, and these modern-generation "mega cruise ships" are fantastically harder to sink, still.

And yet even for the Titanic in 1912, there was a ship near enough to rescue all those who froze, but its communications equipment was off so it didn't receive the distress call. And even then, if they'd just brought enough lifeboats, those aren't exactly modern space-age tech.

Still though, it's neat to reflect on all the advancements we've made.

There's apparently a Titanic Replica full-scale, actually-functioning ship, perfect to form (with the exception of modern safety standards such as sufficient lifeboats, GPS tracking, modern radar and communications systems, air conditioning, and I'm willing to bet the nice little regulations such as self-lit "EXIT" signs) ship. But as the article said,

By at 40,000 tons, 840 cabins and room for 2,400 passengers and 900 crew members, passengers may feel the ship a bit smaller than the mega cruise ships of today.

Even lower-mid income people of today are used to more luxury than the tycoons of 1912. I doubt they had all this, either.

Never mind the fact that if you want to go from Europe to the US or vice-versa, you can do it in a single day on a jet-liner…

Here's to the engineers, who change our world one year at a time, until looking back, it seems we're almost like gods compared to the people who couldn't instantly talk across the world, make images like this in 10 minutes, Google the knowledge to write this, and fly across the world in a single day.

This, people, is why you were taught Algebra in school, and why you should care about math and science class, because those things change the world.

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Posted previously at: 2018-01-11T01:20:56 | Posted previously by: Cirrus Light