A billionaire has built a replica of the RMS Titanic
(see the article) and it is slated to sail in 2018. I wonder if they
will completely flout fate and sail its maiden voyage for April 10?
To ride or not to ride? That is the question. Not that I
could afford it, this is strictly a rhetorical question, but is an
interesting quandary. On the one hand, statistically, it should be
safe. It should also technologically be safe. I mean, what are the
odds that TWO Titanics would sink on their maiden voyage? Right?
On the other hand, the first Titanic
was also supposed to be "technologically safe" too and my
primitive, superstitious inner monkey-brain thinks it goes against all
sense of self-preservation to ride anything that is modeled after
such an ill-fated ship.
