Icebergs be damned.
(Credit: Clive Palmer)
Tempting fate is a very human pastime. We know it will all end badly sooner or later, so why not see whether we can skirt the edge of disaster and experience how it feels?
Such an impulse will surely drive many to book an early ticket on Titanic II.
No, this is not another Donald Trump project. It is, instead, the idea of Clive Palmer, an Australian mining tycoon known for his dreamy qualities.
He once suggested that Greenpeace was funded by the CIA. He erected a 26-foot Tyrannosaurus Rex at his Coolum golf course, home of this year’s (but not next year’s) Australian PGA Championship.
So the idea of a new Titanic seems entirely sensible.
As USA Today reports, Palmer showed off the plans for the new ship this week and promised it would be a “full-scale re-creation.”
He also insisted that “the Titanic II will be the ship where dreams come true.”
This is the height of salesmanship for the successor to an original that offered more than its fair share of customer disappointm… [Read more]
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