Should You Be Afraid of the Supermoon?
Saturday will bring us a supermoon, an astronomical phenomenon during which the moon is both full and at its closet point to Earth in its orbit.
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For an as-of-yet unnamed price, you too can board a massive luxury ocean liner much like the Titanic for its maiden voyage in 2016. And just as it was on that fateful journey, you too could go down with the ship, according to designs unveiled today.
Saturday will bring us a supermoon, an astronomical phenomenon during which the moon is both full and at its closet point to Earth in its orbit.
We've gotten accustomed to associating gigantic things with the Titanic--size, disaster, box office revenue, movie length, James Cameron's ego--so we were disappointed when we heard that Titanic II, a ship set to sail in 2016, will be smaller than most cruise ships today.
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There is a question tugging at the hearts and minds of all stylish humans: How to re-live an epic tragedy in the fashion to which you have grown accustomed?
We were so much older then. We're younger than that now.
Titanic director James Cameron successfully completed a trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, setting a world record for the deepest ocean dive by a single person.
After a day of staring at Twitter, we're sharing our favorite tweets that made no sense.
Get out your microscopes, history buffs, because researchers have finally managed to put together a single picture that includes the entire three-by-five-mile wreck site for the HMS Titanic.
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