Shocking revelation made as new images of the Titanic are released
It has been 112 years since the infamous vessel sank in the North Atlantic ocean Joe Yates At a first glance, it looks like something out of a video game ... But recent footage captured from the bottom of the North Atlantic ocean of the sunken Titanic is harrowingly real. The Titanic's shipwreck lies around 12,500 feet below sea level and is a constant reminder of the 1,517 lives that were lost when the vessel struck an iceberg way back on April 15, 1912. For 73 years, the entire planet was dumbfounded at how something so big. and 'unsinkable' - with it being 175 feet tall and 883 feet long - could just disappear. The RMS Titanic, pictured on her ill-fated maiden voyage back in 1912 (Getty Images) Countless expeditions were launched by people all around the world exploring the seabed, until Robert Ballard, of Wichita, Kansas, came across it in 1985 - thanks to his pioneering use of deep-diving submersibles. Since then the rusty, decaying wreck has been explored thousands of times by scientists , explorers and tourists - including OceanGate, the company that owned the ill-fated submersible that imploded on its way to the wreckage in June 2023, taking the lives of all five. men onboard. Now, thanks to Titanic Expedition 2024, a shocking revelation has been made regarding the ship's wreckage thanks to new technology . This is one of the most up-to-date pictures of the Titanic wreckage (RMS Titanic, Inc.) The mission involved scanning and documenting the RMS Titanic and it's debris field - the resting place of a 2-foot-tall bronze statuette of the Roman goddess Diana - which took hundreds of hours to do so. It has been 112 years since tragedy struck so of course, there has been some vast changes to the ship's appearance in that time - with the intense pressure from the ocean floor, as well as rust from the water itself. It is fair to say it is a completely different beast to what departed from Southampton, England , all those years ago. Incredibly, the bow of the Titanic has drastically changed in the short period of time since it was last pictured - the bow being where Jack held Rose at the front of the ship in the 1997 blockbuster film .
The bow of the shipwreck pictured 30 years later in 2024 (RMS Titanic, Inc.) When the research team finally visited the ship earlier in the summer, on July 29, they discovered that the railing around the bow was no longer one piece - with a large section, around 15 feet wide had fallen overboard.
The shocking revelation has now changed the face of the front of the ship entirely, but it will not be the last change as the vessel continues to battle such intense pressure.
WritingAbout the discovery, the team behind the expedition at RMS Titanic Inc, said: "The Expedition team and partners at 3D at Depth immediately reviewed the multibeam imagery from two days prior to confirm that the railing section had fallen as one piece and was lying on. the seafloor directly below.
The shocking revelation has now changed the face of the front of the ship entirely, but it will not be the last change as the vessel continues to battle such intense pressure.
WritingAbout the discovery, the team behind the expedition at RMS Titanic Inc, said: "The Expedition team and partners at 3D at Depth immediately reviewed the multibeam imagery from two days prior to confirm that the railing section had fallen as one piece and was lying on. the seafloor directly below.
The Titanic has undergone drastic changes in the 112 years it has been underwater - including its bow, which is no longer intact (RMS Titanic, Inc.)
"We are saddened by this loss and the inevitable decay of the Ship and the debris.
"Over the course of the next few weeks and months, we will conduct a more thorough review of Titanic's condition and her changes over time.
" Although Titanic's collapse is inevitable, this evidence strengthens our mission to preserve and document what we can before it is. too late. "Featured Image Credit: RMS Titanic Inc
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Insane cost it took to put man on the Moon shows why US has not done it again since
"We are saddened by this loss and the inevitable decay of the Ship and the debris.
"Over the course of the next few weeks and months, we will conduct a more thorough review of Titanic's condition and her changes over time.
" Although Titanic's collapse is inevitable, this evidence strengthens our mission to preserve and document what we can before it is. too late. "Featured Image Credit: RMS Titanic Inc
Topics: Titanic , History , Science , Technology
Insane cost it took to put man on the Moon shows why US has not done it again since
The Apollo Program set the US back a staggering amount of money Niamh Shackleton If you've ever wondered why the US have attempted to land on the Moon again, then the amount of cash they spent on Project Apollo will probably make you understand. Project Apollo was created in 1961 all in a bid to beat the Soviets by landing on the Moon first . successfully landed man on the Moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin making history as the first astronauts to do so as part of Apollo 11. Michael Collins was also up there with them and successfully piloted the spacecraft and got his crew safely back to Earth . There were a further five spaceflights between then and 1972 that successfully landed on the Moon, but the US has not put a human on the lunar surface since. As to why, the main reason all came down to funding. Project Apollo had several important components to it, including building and up-keeping spaceships, covering the cost of launching the vehicles and things like ground facilities and people's wages.
With this in mind, it's understandable that the project wasn't a cheap mission to run and billions were spent over this time frame.
With this in mind, it's understandable that the project wasn't a cheap mission to run and billions were spent over this time frame.
Buzz Aldrin pictured on the moon in July 1969. (Heritage Space / Heritage Images / Getty Images)
According to new data from The Planetary Society, the US spent a staggering $ 25.8 billion on hardware, facilities, and overheads directly associated with Project Apollo between fiscal. years 1960 and 1973 - a far cry from the $ 7 billion resident John F. Kennedy's government estimated it would cost.
This converted to inflation rates in 2020 would set the likes of NASA back around $ 257 million.
If you add Project Gemini and the robotic lunar program, both of which enabled Apollo, this total would come to an eye-watering $ 280 million when taking inflation into consideration.
The mission became increasingly more expensive as the years went on. For example in 1961 mission support and operations were reported to have cost $ 297,000 at time and by 1972 this had increased to $ 310,326,000, as pera 2022 study.
According to new data from The Planetary Society, the US spent a staggering $ 25.8 billion on hardware, facilities, and overheads directly associated with Project Apollo between fiscal. years 1960 and 1973 - a far cry from the $ 7 billion resident John F. Kennedy's government estimated it would cost.
This converted to inflation rates in 2020 would set the likes of NASA back around $ 257 million.
If you add Project Gemini and the robotic lunar program, both of which enabled Apollo, this total would come to an eye-watering $ 280 million when taking inflation into consideration.
The mission became increasingly more expensive as the years went on. For example in 1961 mission support and operations were reported to have cost $ 297,000 at time and by 1972 this had increased to $ 310,326,000, as pera 2022 study.
Neil Armstrong was officially the first man to walk on the moon. (Space Frontiers / Getty Images)
While Project Apollo has now ceased to exist, space exploration continues.
One key part of the globe's ongoing efforts to find out more about space is the International Space Station which has been visited by 280 individuals from 23 countries.
According to Space.com, the station costs about $ 3 billion per year for NASA to operate.
While still expensive, it's substantially less than the fees NASA racked up while running Project Apollo.Featured Image Credit: HUM Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images / Aubrey Gemignani / NASA via Getty Images
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Bizarre strategies scientists wanted to use to lift Titanic wreckage has people completely baffled
While Project Apollo has now ceased to exist, space exploration continues.
One key part of the globe's ongoing efforts to find out more about space is the International Space Station which has been visited by 280 individuals from 23 countries.
According to Space.com, the station costs about $ 3 billion per year for NASA to operate.
While still expensive, it's substantially less than the fees NASA racked up while running Project Apollo.Featured Image Credit: HUM Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images / Aubrey Gemignani / NASA via Getty Images
Topics: Space , NASA , Moon , History , Science , Technology , Money
Bizarre strategies scientists wanted to use to lift Titanic wreckage has people completely baffled
One of the insane theories on how to recover the Titanic was to pump it with hundreds of thousands of ping pong balls Joe Yates Some of the ideas scientists came up with to recover the sunken Titanic from the bottom of the ocean were just bizarre. On 15th April 1912, the most infamous ship wreck in world history took place, an event which, in the years since it happened, hundreds of conspiracy theories have been conjectured.
And while some of them are quite crazy, I think even some of the scientists' wild theories on how to resurface the doomed vessel could be more so.
The Titanic remains at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. (Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty Image)
Within months of the Titanic sinking, strategies were laid out on how it could be resurfaced - that was despite a number of survivors explaining that the liner broke in half.
For 73 years, the cruise ship remained at the bottom of the ocean, which put an end to the possibility of seeing it above water ever again.
So, lets get into some of these ' scientists ' plans - which for a couple you would be excused if you thought a kindergartener came up with.
The iceberg
This theorist was no scientist, but instead he was an unemployed haulage contractor from the UK .
In the 1970s Arthur Hickey, of Walsall, England, pitched that in order to ever see the ship in one-piece again, it must be completely covered in ice. So, it would be possible to float it to the surface before towing it to Canada.
He is alleged to have stated that 'if an iceberg could sink the Titanic, why couldn't it un-sink it'.
The Titanic sank on 15 April 1912. (SCIEPRO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Ralph White / Getty Images)
The idea never came to fruition after it was calculated more than half a million tons of liquid nitrogen would be needed in order to make it a possibility.
A whole lot of ping pong balls
In the same decade, someone bizarrely came up with the theory that if you took enough ping pong balls to the ship wreck, it would simply float delicately to the top of the North Atlantic Ocean.
It would have involved hundreds of thousands of ping pong balls.
The idea was soon rubbished after somebody pointed out the pressure of deep under water would simply crush the balls.
Slather the titanic with Vaseline
Yes, this really was a suggestion - Vaseline works as a dry floatant, but in order to make a ship that weighs 52,310 tons float, you would need 180,000 tons of the stuff.
Balloons and magnets
Two years after it sunk, an architect from Denver, in England, suggested that it could be surfaced with magnets, but it was deemed too expensive . Someone else claimed you could surface it by attaching balloons to magnets.
Well, all of those ideas are crazy, and maybe it's best if we keep it down there - what's to gain from raising it to the surface anyway? Featured Image Credit: Getty / Ralph White / Getty / Vernon Lewis Gallery
Topics: Conspiracy Theories , History , Science, Titanic , Weird , Reddit
Self-made billionaire's three mind-blowing predictions for the future are all coming true
The idea never came to fruition after it was calculated more than half a million tons of liquid nitrogen would be needed in order to make it a possibility.
A whole lot of ping pong balls
In the same decade, someone bizarrely came up with the theory that if you took enough ping pong balls to the ship wreck, it would simply float delicately to the top of the North Atlantic Ocean.
It would have involved hundreds of thousands of ping pong balls.
The idea was soon rubbished after somebody pointed out the pressure of deep under water would simply crush the balls.
Slather the titanic with Vaseline
Yes, this really was a suggestion - Vaseline works as a dry floatant, but in order to make a ship that weighs 52,310 tons float, you would need 180,000 tons of the stuff.
Balloons and magnets
Two years after it sunk, an architect from Denver, in England, suggested that it could be surfaced with magnets, but it was deemed too expensive . Someone else claimed you could surface it by attaching balloons to magnets.
Well, all of those ideas are crazy, and maybe it's best if we keep it down there - what's to gain from raising it to the surface anyway? Featured Image Credit: Getty / Ralph White / Getty / Vernon Lewis Gallery
Topics: Conspiracy Theories , History , Science, Titanic , Weird , Reddit
Self-made billionaire's three mind-blowing predictions for the future are all coming true
We think this genius Irishman living in California can see into the future. , because he hasn't missed a beat with these predictions Joe Yates One man has gone under the radar predicting our future ... and he's got it all right. Usually when I cover predictions for the future it's somebody claiming the world is going to end or some other tripe, because whether you are religious and believe in God or you do not ... Earth will still be orbiting the Sun by the time we die. Self-made billionaire Patrick Collison. (Matt Winkelmeyer / Getty Images for WIRED) But that isn't what this is about; no it's something entirely different and it comes from a genius mathematician. Self-made billionaire Patrick Collison,
who was born in the small village of Dromineer in the heart of Ireland , made three mind-blowing assumptions in how the world will operate in the future - and they are all coming true. The 35-year-old CEO of Stripe, a US multinational financial services and software as a service company - dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California , and Dublin, the capital of his home country. In 2022, he predicted that AI would run empires while we sleep, and that the next big app will be built by someone who can't code.
With his third prediction being that understanding APIs (Application Programming Interface) will be as crucial as reading and writing. Collison is the CEO of Stripe - a company worth more than PayPal. (AOP.Press/Corbis via Getty Images) We all know how much AI and technology as a whole have completely taken off in recent years, but there's a hidden connection between them all. And apparently the connection is APIs. But what is it?
Well, according to AltexSoft, an API is a set of programming code that enables data transmission between one software product and another. It is all very confusing. So how are his predictions coming true, then? Well, AI reportedly trades $ 250 billion every day on the stock exchange at JPMorgan - on its own, without humans. Is Collison the next Steve Jobs? (Matthias Oesterle / Corbis via Getty Images) Yes, the trading stock market is widely being used by AI which makes a decision on whether or not to invest in stock, or even disinvest.
His second prediction about 'the next big app' being built by 'someone who can't code', also came true.
According to the CEO of Api Days, Baptiste Parravicini, 'no-code apps have reached $ 1 billion in yearly valuations'.
He also took to Twitter to share that Collison was right about his third prediction too - which was that understanding APIs will be as crucial as reading and writing.
Baptiste wrote: "Tech skills are a requirement in 90% of jobs."
So, is Collison the next Steve Jobs ?
I think it's a name we'll definitely hear of again.Featured Image Credit: YouTube / Million Stories Media
Topics: Technology , Business , Artificial Intelligence
1 Isaac Newton made prediction on when the world is going to end and it's not far off now
His second prediction about 'the next big app' being built by 'someone who can't code', also came true.
According to the CEO of Api Days, Baptiste Parravicini, 'no-code apps have reached $ 1 billion in yearly valuations'.
He also took to Twitter to share that Collison was right about his third prediction too - which was that understanding APIs will be as crucial as reading and writing.
Baptiste wrote: "Tech skills are a requirement in 90% of jobs."
So, is Collison the next Steve Jobs ?
I think it's a name we'll definitely hear of again.Featured Image Credit: YouTube / Million Stories Media
Topics: Technology , Business , Artificial Intelligence
1 Isaac Newton made prediction on when the world is going to end and it's not far off now
One of the greatest minds to ever walk the planet predicted that the end is nigh Joe Yates Another day, another doomsday prediction. So far, every prediction that has ever been made has fallen short of Armageddon breaking out - that is, of course, of all the predictions in which the date has already passed. But none of those have come from the man who discovered gravity ... step forward Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity. (Getty Stock Image) Newton was a British physicist and mathematician who discovered the laws of gravity and motion - and he even invented calculus.
Basically, if it wasn't for his brilliant brain our rational world would most likely look incredibly different to how it does now.
So, if anyone can predict our demise, it is likely Newton.
For this we'll have to hark back to the beginning of the 18th century - 1704 to be precise.
Before the invention of the guillotine, trains and even the piano, Newton dunked the tip of his feathered quill in ink and theorized about the end of civilazation on a piece of paper.
And, according to the physicist, it's a lot sooner than you may think.
Basically, if it wasn't for his brilliant brain our rational world would most likely look incredibly different to how it does now.
So, if anyone can predict our demise, it is likely Newton.
For this we'll have to hark back to the beginning of the 18th century - 1704 to be precise.
Before the invention of the guillotine, trains and even the piano, Newton dunked the tip of his feathered quill in ink and theorized about the end of civilazation on a piece of paper.
And, according to the physicist, it's a lot sooner than you may think.
Newton anticipated for the end of the world to occur, at the earliest, this century. (Getty Stock Image)
In one prediction, which he likely did not want to be read, Newton wrote: "So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year.
"And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings AC 800, will end AC 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. "
Yes, you read that right - 2060, as in 36 years from now.
In one prediction, which he likely did not want to be read, Newton wrote: "So then the time times & half a time are 42 months or 1260 days or three years & an half, recconing twelve months to a yeare & 30 days to a month as was done in the Calendar of the primitive year.
"And the days of short lived Beasts being put for the years of lived kingdoms, the period of 1260 days, if dated from the complete conquest of the three kings AC 800, will end AC 2060. It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner. "
Yes, you read that right - 2060, as in 36 years from now.
Newton predicted the end of the world would take place in 2060. (Getty Stock Image)
But how did he theorize this?
Newton was a Christian and he formed this theory off of the Book of Daniel - which is the oldest testament to his religion , and it mentions the apocalypse.
Speaking about what he meant the curator of History of Yesterday, Andrei Tapalaga said: "The 'end of the world' that Newton is referring to in this theory based on the Book of Daniel is that this will be when Jesus will come back and bring peace to this world by being the ruler for a whole millennium.
"Jesus would burn all of those who have corrupted Christianity for their own personal gain and teach us all to live in harmony. Those that oppose him will face his wrath and those who embrace him will face his love. "
So Newton's end of the world prediction did not necessarily mean Armageddon, more of an end of an era.
Phew! Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images
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But how did he theorize this?
Newton was a Christian and he formed this theory off of the Book of Daniel - which is the oldest testament to his religion , and it mentions the apocalypse.
Speaking about what he meant the curator of History of Yesterday, Andrei Tapalaga said: "The 'end of the world' that Newton is referring to in this theory based on the Book of Daniel is that this will be when Jesus will come back and bring peace to this world by being the ruler for a whole millennium.
"Jesus would burn all of those who have corrupted Christianity for their own personal gain and teach us all to live in harmony. Those that oppose him will face his wrath and those who embrace him will face his love. "
So Newton's end of the world prediction did not necessarily mean Armageddon, more of an end of an era.
Phew! Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock Images
Topics : History , Science
