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Sea trials showed the titanic could turn atound in about 5 minutes

Plz help my 🙏🙏🙏

In the grand scheme of problematic things, his Titanic gaffe is only the tip of the iceberg. Much like the Titanic’s main issue in fact.

Titanic’s sea trials had her turn 180 in about 5-6 minutes. It’s honestly hard to grasp how much bigger today’s cruise ships and supertankers are.

If elsewhere he'd also said that Rome wasn't built on a sixpence then it'd be a genius joke. And tbh I might start using it as a phrase now.

But also, some research indicates that it may have been better for them to hit the iceberg dead on while trying to slow down. Which also relates, since all this pointless pivoting into even more expensive live service gambles instead of building a new ship and crew to explore other directions.

Like literally hard to starboard rudder, reverse the starboard screw. It will turn on a dime.

It's not like there aren't ample alternative nautical metaphors, too: "it's hard work to turn through the wind," etc.

Apart from that - what about the prime idiocy of comparing the US with the Titanic.

I am truly sorry for your pains.

Shouldn't have steered it into an iceberg, Vance. I guess the tariffs are Biden's faults, too?

The real metaphor Vance needs, I'm afraid, is that you don't turn the Lusitania around overnight.

Let’s get on the love boat

And if, by some sad set of circumstances, we are on the Titanic, the by all means we should change course!

They didn’t even need to turn it around. Like 45 degrees would likely have been adequate. (I know nothing of the size of icebergs. Or ships.)

The problem here is that this particular Titanic carries its own, fully operational, Titanic-sinking-iceberg-making machine

Purpose of a system is what it does etc

but what if joe biden was the iceberg and hunter was the ship 150 nautical miles to the south?

I was told this at an exit interview for a job I quit after years of documenting internal crises and trying to get HR to intervene. “Are we on the Titanic?” I asked. She sighed, shuffled some papers around.

It was a metastasizing self-own that gets stupider the more you think about it.

Thanks! I couldn’t remember lol

Probably shouldnt have claimed to be able to turn it around if you cannot. Thats the politicians issue. They claim to do something in a day and a year later they use that tired old excuse of it taking time. They only got elected because they said they would fix something straight away.

just hopefully not in the Z-axis

true

More accurate would be “they DIDN’T turn the titanic around overnight. They kept on, full speed ahead baby!”

He said this is January and was called out for it then. Has he learned nothing?

i mean they could have just stopped the engines until they could have better light? they didn't even need to turn it around (and probably shouldn't, given currents).

like, famously they decided not to do this (maybe the mr vp sir could go at least watch the film, it's not even that long)

Yes, but you don’t if you are Vance. Really the only way to interpret it consistent with reality just beyond his fingertips.

When this came up the other day, I pointed out that it famously made a 90 degree turn over just a couple hours. Of course, that's not even the funniest bit, what with him making the US economy "The Titanic" in this analogy.

Who said this idiocy

Half hour before the iceberg works.

I suppose you don't have to turn it "around" you can just like. Turn it. That would also fix the problem.

I’ve always hated the phrase “turning circle of a supertanker” a supertanker at full speed can turn full circle in 3-5 times its own length…. Try to do that in a car and you’re rolling over to await a visit from a firefighter with jaws of life.

Also, the S.S. Trump has already struck the iceberg. She's taking on water and it doesn't matter if she changes course, steams ahead, or comes to a full stop. She's going down.

Those who forget history are doomed to bad analogies.

Really? You are still trying to figure out the words of an abject moron? All I needed was the source. God I'm tired of the stupid. It makes you crazy, doesn't it? Yet I, too, can't look away. Even though I already voted.

For non-Brits, Boris Johnson once said he was going to make a Titanic success of Brexit - www.youtube.com/watch?v=svws...

The issue was they should have "slowed the titanic down". At lower speeds they could have spotted the iceberg and steered around it, and even if they had hit it, the damage would not have fatally breached the ship's hull.

exactly, captain didn’t make good decision so it crashed and sank, killing almost everyone, just like both Trump terms. They are just proving the rest of us right but too ignorant to even know it smdh. Sad!

The ship would have suffered less damage if they'd just drove headlong into the berg.

In 3-6 minutes.

What I like about the political Discourse in this country is the fact that you have to have strong opinions about the decor of chain restaurants and marine navigation

What I look for in a ship's captain is a guy who moves forward no matter what

at speed, it would only take the titanic six minutes to turn 180 degrees

In their defence, I bet turning the titanic around *now* would be a real feat of engineering that definitely takes a long long time

You don't turn the presidential motorcade around in a day

“Hey, are we going to crash into that iceberg?” “Not until Wednesday. We’re doomed!”

Also, why pick the Titanic for your reference? It's famous for one very specific very bad reason.