A Titanic Disaster
Over a century ago, the largest ship human beings had ever assembled set out to cross the North Atlantic. Unsinkable was the word many used to describe this magnificent titanic ship. Massive and floating city were other common descriptive terms.
It was April and the weather was still frigid. Icebergs were ever-present and could be deadly to smaller ships, but this enormous luxury ocean liner was the pinnacle of human engineering. It was “the largest craft afloat,” and among “the greatest works of men.”
The math had been done, and this floating city could survive running into any iceberg anyway, never mind the cold weather. This was state-of-the-art technology at a massive scale, the likes of which the world had never seen before.
It was so unsinkable that there weren’t enough lifeboats on board when the Titan ran into an iceberg in April of 1898 and sank, killing most of the passengers on board.
The book is called Futility, and it was written by Morgan Robertson and published 14 years before the infamous Titanic disaster.
Good grief - that book was written much earlier than the tragedy? I think one or two people will think about certain predictions which actually were true. To say life is unpredictable would be an understatement!
The use of superlatives should be self-monitored and reduced!