Iceberg, Goldberg, What's The Difference?

Tam notes the concept of  

"The Goebbels Gap: The amount of time between something terrible happening in the world and someone figuring out a way to blame the Jews for it. https://t.co/8ht5ZuxKxE"

Yep, the implosion of the Oceangate Submersible is now being blamed on the Jews. Not to mention the sinking of the RMS Titanic itself. Because, hey, why not?   

After all, no point blaming it on a company that seems to have basically ignored good submersible design and didn't really give safety a thought while descending to 13,000 feet in a submersible with parts rated to 4,265 feet.

Verily, these prejudiced idiots can't tell the difference between an Iceberg and a Goldberg.

On the one hand, being blamed for every possible thing that goes wrong anywhere, no matter how unlikely or outlandish is kinda uncomfortable and rather tiring nonsense.  

On the other hand, if the anti-Semitic idiots think we're all really that powerful, then maybe they should quit messing with us - after all, FAFO is a real thing.

Kinda Neat: The Titanic Scan of The Titanic

More than 111 years after she sank, we have a new and impressive view of the Titanic as she now rests on the ocean floor.

The Detroit News: First full-size 3D scan of Titanic shows shipwreck in new light

Using submersibles Magellan / Atlantic scanned the entire wreck, and over 700,000 images were then put together.  The images included scans of the ship itself and an area around it of 3 miles to capture debris that had fallen from the wreck - shoes and even watches are visible in the composite image.

The BBC has a portion of the video of the composite image and it's pretty darn amazing what this technology can do.

The wreck of the Titanic is slowly rusting away and collapsing upon itself on the seafloor, 12,500 feet down.

Dear I Love Science Folks - That Meme Does Not Mean What You Think It Means

A nice little meme popped up on my Facebook page, courtesy of one of my very liberal Dem friends who is all about "I love science", Orange Man Bad, Vote Blue No Matter Who, etc.

The meme is:

 Yes its an attempt to make fun of people who point out that masks aren't the panacea the proggies proclaim them to be. 

How silly are these people who don't go along with all the various edicts?, and saying cloth masks don't work?, and aren't they just ignorant for not going along - after all, I bet if they were on the Titanic they wouldn't wear a life jacket, hurr durr.

Welp, there's a little problem there.

Those passengers who just wore life jackets died when they were in the water in very short order.  Indeed, most all passengers left the Titanic wearing a life jacket. 

But,  many of those wearing lifejackets on leaving the ship were killed by those same lifejackets by knocking them unconscious or snapping their necks on impact with the water due to the design of the jacket,  The freezing water then killed the rest via hypothermia and the life jacket didn't help with that.

Unless you got on a lifeboat, your chance of survival was between slim and none, with slim rapidly slipping under the waves.  

Life-jackets alone were insufficient to save your life on the Titanic, making the meme rather historically ignorant,  but great for the I Love Science crowd.

In other words, the meme actually points out that cloth masks, just like life-jackets alone are not a panacea and going to save you from Covid19.

I almost have to wonder if this was a brilliant play by 4Chan to get the I Love Science Crowd to beclown themselves.  But more likely its just an I Love Science Crowd type forgetting to love history and facts before making the emotive meme to try and attack their opponents.

That's one Titanic Map

Cool Technology.

Fox News: Full Titanic wreck site is mapped for first time

Researchers have pieced together what's believed to be the first comprehensive map of the entire 3-mile-by-5-mile Titanic debris field and hope it will provide new clues about what exactly happened the night 100 years ago when the superliner hit an iceberg, plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic and became a legend.

Pretty amazing how the technology has improved enough that now, 100 years after her sinking, we can get a detailed map of the entire wreckage and debris field - two and a half miles beneath the surface.