Exhibition of design flops should suit British sense of humour, says its founder, but also shows failure is a part of learning
Brexit wasn’t a failure.
The Titanic, Sinclair C5 and Brexit: the Museum of Failure is coming to the UK
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UncleArthur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There was nothing wrong with RMS Titanic. Her first sister, RMS Olympic, trundled along until being scapped in 1936 after the merger with Cunard. The issue with the Titanic was that she was driven into an iceberg.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“The Toyota Corolla is an absolute failure”
“Really, how so?”
“My uncle crashed his into a lamppost and then it was rendered un-drivable”
icerunner_origin@startrek.website 1 month ago
I love the way you delivered the punchline - very reminiscent of Douglas Adams
MurrayL@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’re confusing design failure with failure in the broader, catastrophic sense.
As Picard said, it is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Possibly. It was never said to be unsinkable, that was a myth. Certainly any ship can be sunk by poor seamanship or adverse circumstances.
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 month ago
And the coal bunkers were on fire before she even left port but safety concerns were ignored by her owners because of the bad PR of delaying to deal with it. This may have contributed to the rapid sinking as the structure was damaged before she set to sea and broke apart faster than she might otherwise have done.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This was common with coal-fired ships in those days. It had no impact on the sinking.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Bunker fires were very common and it didn’t in any way compromise the structure. If anything it kept the ship afloat and uprignt longer by necessitating the use of coal from the starboard first, resulting in a port list.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nothing wrong except those key oversights like not actually compartmentalizing the sections but only doing it 80 % of the way such that it will flood no matter what.
UncleArthur@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That was absolutely not an issue. Titanic was a 4 compartment ship: any 4 compartments could be flooded without the ship sinking. Thus was WAY superior to the vast majority of ships sailing in 1912. Her design was superb.
When she hit the iceberg, 5 compartments were holed. No-one foresaw such severe damage as a possibility and it only happened because of the unique circumstances of the collision (actually, the alliision) with the 'berg.
In short, RMS Titanic was designed and built superbly.