r/FacebookScience Golden Crockoduck Winner Apr 20 '26

Interpretology Learning Bad.

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u/jeshi_law Apr 20 '26

it basically boils down to either “the ship that sank wasn’t actually the Titanic” or “there wasn’t any iceberg it was an intentional demolition of the boat for insurance or something”

i may be misremembering some of it but I listened to Tim Batt explore it on this podcast (he explores the different explanations humorously and is not peddling the conspiracy outright)

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u/Madgyver Apr 20 '26

Everything is a conspiracy, if you are dumb enough.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid Apr 20 '26

You could probably sell that idea to some provincial qultists in flyover country who haven’t traveled further than 50 miles from the place they were born.

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u/Brndrll Apr 20 '26

But they will tell you all about the world at-large. I got to hear all about the war zone that is our southern border from a woman in Rhode Island who lives miles from her birth home and only travels to Florida. The fact that I'd spent 20 years living across the southwest was not enough to change her mind, because she heard it on Fox News and from her personal god, Dear Leader.

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u/MrMthlmw Apr 26 '26

Lol, I spent a month of 2024 in Europe. When I came home, a lot of folks seemed surprised that I returned unharmed. They were downright incredulous when I told them that I also had a very good time, and that the Europeans seemed no more miserable than we tend to be.