Titanic replica will have maiden voyage in 2022

Haven't you heard? Global warming melted all the icebergs!

 

I have witnessed one of our own SAC Missile Boxcars first hand on the main here near Searcy quite some years ago. Classic folding roof and 8 sets of axles carried a missile in it. I don't think this particular car was "loaded" that day but likely on its way to museum or disposable ground.

The base in Jacksonville south west of here has rail served bunkers which I think stores about 54 old Peacekeepers which are obsolete today but still quite dangerous under the 80's tech of that time. I don't know if it is true or not. However the rail is maintained. It has once been a titan II missile field here in Arkansas. One silo near Searcy had a tool fall in and lit off the missile fuel and burned it to the point of tossing what was later known as a 9 megaton warhead assembly out of the silo. If it had detonated Arkansas would have essentially been erased and the bordering states would have had large damage.

Later on we had 6 wings of missile fields but now are only three. Out west with western Nebraska as the main one in the middle. About 450 minutemen are ready 24/7 more or less in groups of 150 divided by 10. Some are on farms which raise crops around them. The Soviet later Russian today practice truck dispersal of the Satan II and other Missile systems that are quite modern and extremely capable. All they have to do is scatter set and launch. Even one would lay waste and eliminate Texas or any US state permanently because we do not practice Missile defenses.

I don't worry about missiles much anymore. The Cold War was quite something. The mindset and so on. We continue to evolve and replace the aging weapons set with new technology and better warheads big and small. How small? The theory goes if necessary we can take out 4 city blocks downtown somewhere important and that would be that. No need to kill 10 million. But that can happen too either way.

The big problem is EMP. All of this technology on the Civilian side would just go poof. There would be those of old old enough to remember life without a net. As it was prior to around 1992 or thereabouts but the next two generations growing up now do not know how. And that would be a big problem. Some of the military net will stay standing for one purpose to turn the attacking Nation into a parking lot.

 

When they set sail in this thing do you think they will be smart enough to close the doors to each compartment this time? Just in case.

 

I was skeptical about global warming until last august when I saw melted glaciers of Caucasus.

 

I believe it comes and goes. Even our own history dating to 1816 or so and again in about 1768 give or take, I'll need to look it up where summers did not exist. The earth will do what it will do and we must roll with it. I am not a tree hugger or anything like that they have been thumping saving the planet all my life but at some point it must come and go. If I had any worry at all, it will be Yellowstone. 2 feet ash here in Arkansas twice enough to destroy roofs and buildings. But worse falling glass destroys your breathing system by chopping a million knives. America probably would just be another ashheap of history. I hate to say it.

 

AmodelCat: if all the ice bergs are melted, does that mean the Titanic 2 will sail north and attempt to cross the northwest passage where a few icebergs still remain to keep up the scenery the passengers witnessed in 1912?

 

That would be something indeed. The Artic is currently a battlefield economically with military outposts being set up by Russians intent on the cargo trade short cuts that will be created. Its only 6000 miles over the top of the world rather than say 9000 plus around.

I have little interest in icebergs. I see a mountain of fresh water that has to be useful to someone somewhere. Just tow it.

 

Yellowstone's eruption would be big disaster for entire North America.
Some areas of Euroasia suffer because there is not enough fresh water. The water crisis is big in Central Asian countries, some areas of Iran and Iraq, in Arabic peninsula, some other areas of middle east. Very soon we will see wars started in these areas because of insufficient fresh water supply.