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Boat Forum / Cruising / February 2006Titanic show reminder.
Some of you, presumably without PDA’s or calendars, requested a reminder about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: Sunday, February 26, 9:00 PM EST, History Channel. I will be on a live call in Internet chat for the hour following. A piece by AP just hit the wires and is already on the Boston Globe site and they got it pretty much right this time. A photographer was just here and spend half an hour taking more pictures of me than my parents probably ever did. Papers should be picking this up tomorrow. I’ve already received my first email request for an autograph. Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:)  SignatureRoger Long Hi Roger, I saw a blurb on the web today. They are putting a lot of "push" into it. Looks like it will be an interesting show. Don W. > Some of you, presumably without PDA’s or calendars, requested a > reminder about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I’ve already received my first email request for an autograph. > Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) > Some of you, presumably without PDA’s or calendars, requested a > reminder about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I’ve already received my first email request for an autograph. > Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) This could be your 'big break'. Need an agent? > I’ve already received my first email request for an autograph. > Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) I personally want a lock of pubic hair. "Barky Bark" <barkybark@bonksbcglobal.net> wrote in news:DCuLf.12119 $rL5.3457@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net: >> I’ve already received my first email request for an autograph. >> Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) > > I personally want a lock of pubic hair. Oh, Roger....SEND IT TO HIM!....(C; > "Barky Bark" <barkybark@bonksbcglobal.net> wrote in news:DCuLf.12119 > $rL5.3457@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Oh, Roger....SEND IT TO HIM!....(C; Better yet...send it to his wife. [snip] > Sunday, February 26, 9:00 PM EST, History Channel. I will be on a live > call in Internet chat for the hour following. [snip] looking forward to it! congratulations on fame and fortune! or at least fame! :) Roger,, I saw an ad for the show. I am going to watch it! If I ever buy a boat [ this boat hunting thing is more work than fun, although I have had a very good education in the last two months ], ........ I think I will name my dinghy the "Titanic". Is that against the boating Gods? Will I wake up in the middle of the night with a band standing on my deck playing "Nearer my God to Thee"? Did the Titanic's life boats have names? What happened to the Titanic's lifeboats? I bet one of them would be worth a fortune. ============ > Some of you, presumably without PDA's or calendars, requested a reminder > about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I've already received my first email request for an autograph. Hopefully, > more interesting requests will follow:) There is a good site on the show here: http://titanicsfinalmoments.com/ As far as I know, the lifeboats only had numbers and I think they went to other ships. I think it would be OK to name your dinghy "Titanic" as long as you don't row it near ice. BTW for anyone in the Portland area, I'll be doing a 1 hour show at 9:00 on WGAN radio tomorrow morning(Sunday, Feb 26). This should be the most complete discussion of the technical issues available anywhere for a long time. SignatureRoger Long Roger ,,, what happens to the steel, iron, after so many years under water? Doesn't it just turn back into rust or sand? > There is a good site on the show here: > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > complete discussion of the technical issues available anywhere for a long > time. It's being eaten by iron loving bacteria that create the long fuzzy things you see all over the wreck. About four tons a day is disappearing. How did all these iron eating bugs end up in a desert 12,500 feet down where there is no other iron? One of life's mysteries. SignatureRoger Long > Roger ,,, what happens to the steel, iron, after so many years under > water? Doesn't it just turn back into rust or sand? [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> be the most complete discussion of the technical issues available >> anywhere for a long time. "Thomas Wentworth" wrote >> Roger ,,, what happens to the steel, iron, after so many years under >> water? Doesn't it just turn back into rust or sand? > It's being eaten by iron loving bacteria that create the long fuzzy > things you see all over the wreck. About four tons a day is > disappearing. How did all these iron eating bugs end up in a desert > 12,500 feet down where there is no other iron? One of life's > mysteries. Lots of fascinating things... organisms from fish on down... live in the deep ocean & nowhere else. There are many species of little critters that live in oceanic volcanic plumes at temperatures that seem impossible to sustain life. Not only is the iron being eaten but the bodies have been totally dissolved, including the bones. Chemistry works different at such high pressures. About the Titanic and ocean liners in general, there is another USENET discussion group much like this one: alt.history.ocean-liners.titanic which was very active some years ago, discussing everything from what-ifs (the head-on scenario, the California rescue, etc etc) to engineering details. There are also a LOT of interesting resources out there. Two of the most interesting to me: http://users.senet.com.au/~gittins/wheel.html Right on the money, lots of other subjects, and the author is also a cruising sailor with a lot of good stuff about that too. http://home.flash.net/~rfm/index/contents.html The most unusual model of the Titanic you'll find, along with a lot of info about the wreck as it happened and as she is now. Regards Doug King > "Thomas Wentworth" wrote > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Regards > Doug King I can't find the Titanic show on our local 'History Television' channel. This station must be different from the 'History Channel' broadcast stateside. > I can't find the Titanic show on our local 'History Television' > channel. > This station must be different from the 'History Channel' broadcast > stateside. It is, unfortunately. I think the UK and Canada HC's are separate as well. The History Channel in Britain ran a show on a different 2005 expedition which created all sorts of confusion. SignatureRoger Long >>I can't find the Titanic show on our local 'History Television' >>channel. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > well. The History Channel in Britain ran a show on a different 2005 > expedition which created all sorts of confusion. Here's what I get on cable station 46 here in Halifax. http://www.historytelevision.ca/ Don White <whited@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in news:zKrMf.35734$VV4.462931 @ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca: > Here's what I get on cable station 46 here in Halifax. > http://www.historytelevision.ca/ Thank you, Canada and UK! I get lots of your shows downloaded from alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries alt.binaries.multimedia.comedy alt.binaries.multimedia.comedy.british Thanks to CBC, BBC and the pirates, we CIA-controlled corporate slaves in the USA can still see television programming that's not 50 minutes of spam an hour and only what the CIA wants us to see. I offered BBC-TV to pay the UK Television Tax to support them streaming TV on the net like they do all their radio shows....but they won't....yet... I think it's time we left this vessel - and the 1,517 who went down wit her - alone. These ongoing intrusions (and subsequent for-profit displays of her contents at traveling exhibitions) strike me more as grave robing than of 'science'. Enough already! MW i've always disagreed with this "grave robbing" thought process for a number of reasons, though i know since the popular hollywood movie about the ship it's become an equally popular point of view. funny how popular hollywood movies do that very thing! one reason is that it's simply history, it's a giant shipwreck, a huge disaster, and surely deserves study to understand it. and it deserves to be studied as cultural history also, we certainly wouldn't leave a roman galley at the bottom of the ocean for fear of disturbing the souls on board, or a nazi u-boat if we found one, we'd bring it to the surface, clean her up, and stick her in a museum with bones and bearings for the world to see. there's a lot to be gained by that, a lot to learn. and third, and more important i would think, is that these people had families, they were human beings. and i wouldn't want to be left there if i was them, i'd want to be taken home and buried in the dirt, even if my grave were unmarked with the others, so that i could rest. opinions may vary on this topic, and since the popularity of the movie "titanic" they certainly do, but i wouldn't want to be left in the cold dark waters of the north atlantic. let's bring home as many as can be found, strike up the band and finally bring her in to port, have some parades and put the poor people to rest. if i ever go to the bottom by all means find me! and take me home to the ground where i was born and toss some dirt on me. > I think it's time we left this vessel - and the 1,517 who went down wit > her - alone. These ongoing intrusions (and subsequent for-profit [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > MW >Some of you, presumably without PDAs or calendars, requested a >reminder about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Ive already received my first email request for an autograph. >Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) For those who are interested: http://www.historychannel.com/titanic/?page=home >Some of you, presumably without PDAs or calendars, requested a >reminder about the Titanic show closer to air time. Here it is: [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >Ive already received my first email request for an autograph. >Hopefully, more interesting requests will follow:) Roger, saw the show and liked it a lot. Well done. I was curious about the costs and the funding. Did the History Channel fund the entire expedition? [snip] congratulations roger! it was a great show, enjoyed it very much! :) |
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