And. It's. Called. The. Titanic.

[Recursion]

Why would that possibly be a bad idea?

http://www.irishcentral.com/culture/travel/Titanic-II-set-to-sail-in-2018-says-Aussie-billionaire.html

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer’s fully-functioning replica of the Titanic will be launched in 2018, two years later than initially planned.

A spokesman for the tycoon said that the project had merely been delayed and not abandoned.

Titanic II will look virtually identical to the Belfast-built luxury liner which sank on April 1912 after hitting an iceberg on its maiden voyage, but the ship will have some modern improvements.

The ship will be four meters wider in order to meet today’s maritime safety regulations, and the hull will be welded, not riveted, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

I'm not even superstitious but for Christ's sake, can we all agree there are some aspects of fate you just don't tempt?

[malthaussen]

1. Considering the advances in shipbuilding in 100 years...

... creating a "replica" of the Titanic is a bad idea even if the original ship hadn't sunk. (fun fact: Titanic's sister Britannic sank even faster after she experienced an explosion while serving as a hospital ship in WWI. But the third ship of the class, Olympic, served for many years, and many Atlantic crossings)

-- Mal

[KamaAina]

2. Can we get Celine Dion on its maiden voyage?

[kentauros]

3. He should have rebuilt Brunel's "Leviathan"

aka, the SS Great Eastern

[hunter]

4. It would be even better if it was nuclear powered.

If you're going to tempt fate, go all the way!

Heck, make it a space ship!



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_of_the_Damned_%28Doctor_Who%29

[LiberalElite]

5. No worries. There are fewer icebergs now. nt

[GaYellowDawg]

6. No worries. There's this little thing called radar that's been out for a while.

[jmowreader]

7. Looks like a Titanic mistake...

Leaving out the part about the last Titanic killing 1500 people the first time they tried to use it, where is he going to find enough people willing to pay a multiple of the price of an airline ticket for a much slower ride to make this a profitable proposition? There's a reason the great ocean liners of yesteryear have all been cut up.

[pinboy3niner]

8. They were going to go with 'Lusitania' but thought it might be bad luck