Author Jennifer Hooper McCarty has been making the rounds promoting her new book, What Really Sank the Titanic. I recently caught her on the Colbert Report talking about the book. Basically she puts forth the case that it wasn't just the iceberg that sank the Titanic but also faulty rivets and construction. Publishers description follows:
On the starry night of April 14, 1912, at the dawn of a century charged with human ingenuity and hope, the largest and most advanced passenger ship in the world struck an iceberg and sank to the bottom of the frigid North Atlantic. In the decades that followed, despite numerous official inquiries and the eventual discovery of the wreck itself, key questions have gone unanswered: Why did the double-bottomed, 46,000-ton RMS Titanic, built above and beyond the most exacting specifications, sink in less than three hours? Was the iceberg alone responsible for the tragedy? Or did other factors contribute to the collision's deadly toll? A conclusive explanation has not been given--until now.
WHAT? a conclusive explanation has not been given? I thought when it hit that giant Iceberg and sank was a pretty conclusive. Did the Iceberg have an alibi? Anyways this was just an elaborate rouse to post this classic MST3K clip:
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