| Tango01 | 01 Oct 2020 3:25 p.m. PST |
…Lights, study says "The famous Titanic disaster may have been triggered by the Northern Lights – glowing auroras – that appeared on the night of the liner's sinking, according to new research. A geomagnetic storm behind the lights could have disrupted the RMS Titanic's navigation systems and wireless signals when it sank after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912. More than 1500 passengers and crew died during the disaster…." Main page
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| rmaker | 01 Oct 2020 3:30 p.m. PST |
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Extrabio1947  | 01 Oct 2020 4:35 p.m. PST |
Maybe. Google "Carrington Event." In 1859, The Northern Lights were seen as far south as the Caribbean, and telegraph systems were disabled, some operators receiving severe electric shocks. We've barely missed similar events since. |
| rmaker | 01 Oct 2020 8:53 p.m. PST |
disrupted the RMS Titanic's navigation systems It was 1912. The Titanic had no electronic navigation systems! |
| saltflats1929 | 01 Oct 2020 10:19 p.m. PST |
I heard it was an iceberg. |
| Dn Jackson | 02 Oct 2020 12:05 a.m. PST |
rmaker….I was thinking the same thing. |
| Bob the Temple Builder | 02 Oct 2020 2:38 a.m. PST |
As the radio operators reported no effects on their transmissions, this seems to be one of those occasional ‘Why the Titanic sank‘ stories. The ship sank because the officer of the watch used the accepted drill to avoid a collision. Unfortunately, it meant that the ship grazed the iceberg rather than hit it head on. The grazing opened up the ship along its starboard side, and water began to come into more compartments than she was designed to cope with the loss of. Had she hit the iceberg head on, the bows would have been caved in, but her watertight integrity would have been easier to maintain. None of the above would have been affected by the Northern Lights. |
| Tango01 | 02 Oct 2020 1:13 p.m. PST |
Thanks!. Amicalement
Armand |
 Legion 4  | 03 Oct 2020 9:55 a.m. PST |
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| von Schwartz | 04 Oct 2020 7:16 a.m. PST |
@rmaker +1
It was 1912. The Titanic had no electronic navigation systems! Forget the Titanic, what about the Andrea Doria and Stockholm in 1956, two huge ocean liners, they both had electronic navigation systems, calm seas, 100s of miles of open ocean, no obstacles, and they STILL managed to run into each other? Aliens? Either that or the theory proposed in "Serpent", fiction yes, but plausible? |
| Legion 4 | 04 Oct 2020 9:55 a.m. PST |
It's probably classified anyway … |
| Old Wolfman | 14 Oct 2020 10:40 a.m. PST |
There may have been a mirage effect on the water that night,that may have temporarily confused the lookouts,possibly. |
experiments at 11x.
