His body was not recovered. He left behind a wife and daughter. A statue of him stands in Beacon Park in Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England.
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that it is very risky to be exploring, and sometimes you will get into complicating accidents, but you have to always make sure you are doing the right thing and have the chance to become a hero to the nation.
Despite this incident, the White Star Line appointed Smith captain of its newest ship, the Titanic, for its maiden voyage.
I surmise this is because the White Star Line knew that it was an accident that Smith did and they forgave him.
Smith was captain of the Olympic, a ship as big as the Titanic, in September 1911, when the Olympic collided with another ship, the Hawke, resulting in the Hawke's losing its prow and the Olympic's losing one of its giant propeller shafts. Smith and the Olympic got the blame for this incident.
Why was Smith so careless as in to collide with another ship?
Smith did not survive the sinking of the Titanic. Various accounts of his last actions have him jumping into the sea at the last second, standing in the wheelhouse as the ship went down, and even rescuing a child as his final act.
If Smith is about to die, how can he rescue a child when everything on the ship is crashing down and they were about to drown?
He was captain of the Baltic when it sailed from Liverpool to New York in June 1904 and of the Adriatic when it made a similar voyage three years later.
What is the Baltic and the Adriatic? Why is it all ending with ic?
including a stint transporting British troops to the Boer War.
What was the Boer War?
James Cameron, director of the film Titanic, recently became the first person to reach to travel solo to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the oceans, 11km beneath the surface. With deep-sea science advancing even further, where will we go next?
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that exploration is just starting, and if we keep investing and adding to it, we can find something way more advance and spectacular.
The US Navy asked Ballard to find and photograph two sunken submarines in the Atlantic on a secret mission.
Why is the "secret mission" being told right now? When was it exploited and told to others?
Scientists and explorers competed to find the Titanic.
Why do scientists and explorers compete to find the Titanic? Shouldn't they just work together to make the process of finding it faster?
People had been searching for the Titanic since it sank in 1912. It was the most famous ship of all time and explorers were desperate to find it.
I surmise that not only explorers were desperate to find it, but also people trying to find gold and get rich, because there might be riches inside, and if they find it, they can tell people and get rich!
Imagine looking for something tiny, like an earring, on a football pitch in total darkness. That's a bit like looking for the wreck of the Titanic in the middle of the huge Atlantic Ocean.
I surmise that this was because the Titanic was big to us humans, but to the ocean...very small.
Why was the Titanic so famous? It was the biggest ship in the world. When it was built, people said it was unsinkable. On its first voyage, the Titanic sailed for just 4 days before it hit an iceberg and sank. Over 1,500 people lost their lives.
I surmise that this was because of miscalculations that happened so that the Titanic..."the unsinkable ship" sunk.
Other investigations of the Titanic disaster found that even when incentives to pursue your own interests were really high – that you may die if you don’t – people can cooperate and act at the expense of their own survival. This is in contrast to models that economists have of human behaviour, that people are self-interested and act to maximise their own well-being. We wanted to test these models in extreme situations by analysing a completely new set of shipwrecks. We found that most shipwrecks are the complete opposite to what happened on the Titanic. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('mpu-mid-article-marketing'); });
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that sometimes, exploration gives myths that aren't always true.
The Titanic has been so extensively studied and it confirmed the myth. There was little empirical evidence against it. Lucy Delap of Cambridge University argues that this myth was spread by the British elite to prevent women obtaining suffrage. They said, look at the Titanic, there is no reason to give women the vote because men, even when facing death, will put the interests of women first.
The Titanic's escape was a lie, because women and children didn't have first priority when it came to very dangerous situations.
Yes. It really is every man for himself.
Did the captain not have power, or why didn't the people listen to him and still did EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF?
It appears to have started when the HMS Birkenhead ran aground off South Africa in 1852, but the notion became widespread after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. The captain explicitly issued an order for women and children to be saved first. As a result, the survival rate for women was three times higher than for men.
Did everyone listen to the captain? Some people had to disagree.
We went through a list of over 100 major maritime disasters spanning three centuries to see if we could find data on survival rates of men and women. We ended up with data on 18 shipwrecks, involving 15,000 passengers. In contrast to the Titanic, we found that the survival rate for men is basically double that for women. We only have data on children for a limited number of shipwrecks, but it is evident that they have really bad survival prospects: just 15 per cent.
I surmise that this is because men usually just flee off into the open sea to try to have a chance to live during a shipwreck, and this means that women have no chance of escaping because the exits are crowded with men. Children can't escape because most likely they don't know what is happening and are just staying and standing there thinking...WHAT IS GOING ON?(depends on their age)
Forget “women and children first” – it might have worked on the Titanic, but it’s usually every man for himself, says Mikael Elinder
I surmise that this means that in most cases, men just rush to the exits and jump off into the open sea if a ship fails, but for the Titanic, they let the women and children first, which might have been because someone told them to...but who?
In the 15th century, Europeans began to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of new routes to China and the East, but in the process they discovered an entirely New World: North and South America, plus many other lands.
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that sometimes, when you are exploring something, you can find something else.
After a few test voyages, the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage, calling at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before making the turn west toward the United States. It never returned.
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that sometimes we need to take risks for the greater good of exploring.
After a few test voyages, the Titanic set off on its maiden voyage, calling at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, before making the turn west toward the United States. It never returned.
How can a ship that never returned be sank later on?
A Deck and B Deck were reserved for First Class passengers, although the Second Class smoking room were also on this deck.
Why is there a smoking room? This may hurt the First Class passenger's lungs because of the smoke near them.
The 11 decks could house nearly 2,500 passengers and nearly 900 crew.
Why do they build a big ship and not safe instead of a small and safe one? This is taking risks and dangerous for everyone onboard.
The Titanic was one of three Olympic-class ocean liners built by the White Star Line in the early 20th Century. The other two Olympic-class ships were the Britannic, sunk by a German mine in 1916, and Olympic, which served out many years of passenger transport before being retired in 1935.
Why would people sail a ship that a German mine? This is very risky and dangerous.
some people still think that funding NASA is a waste of money.
Why??
I surmise that this is because of space accidents that happened in Apollo 13, at the famous time of "Houston, we've had a problem", and so people don't trust NASA anymore and think that it is a waste, because we've never actually let a human being live there before, and therefore NASA's risks aren't all good and easy, so people dislike it.
We’ve barely scratched the surface of the solar system–there are so many more questions, and many more questions we don’t even know we have. The price of understanding is small, and for people around the globe to feel connected over a rocket launch, a rover landing, a photo, or a spacewalk is priceless. Let’s not stop. Let’s keep pushing forward and as NASA says, let’s continue to “dare mighty things.”
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is that space exploration is just starting, and we should keep using it even though the costs are high and sometimes there are failures because as it improves, it gets better, and when it gets better, its safer, and when its safer, people might actually get to live on the moon, mars, and others, having the best experience of their whole lives.
Next on the horizon for NASA’s space exploration agenda is a flyby of Europa. The mission to Jupiter’s icy moon has created a lot of excitement for astrobiologists. Because Europa has more water in its oceans than all of the water combined on Earth, it has the potential to harbor life.
What is Europa? Is it related to Europe? Where is it located?
NASA has made a little bit of money go a long way. In addition to organizing science missions, the space agency employs over 60,000 people including private organizations.
Why do you need so many people in different companies in a company(NASA): you should just get people without jobs to do it so there won't need homeless people and everyone can have a job.
That money gets spread out over many different projects. So even though the Curiosity rover had an astounding $2.6 billion price tag, each citizen only paid about about $0.41 per year to put the SUV-sized robot on Mars.
I don't think "each" civilian paid for this rover because there has to be at least a few hundred people who did not pay.
Since the end of the Apollo program in 1972 NASA has operated with an average 0.5 percent of the total US budget. That’s not even a percent of the total 3 trillion dollars allocated to the U.S. in 2014. Although that may still seem like a lot of money, let’s compare it to the beginning of the Apollo program.
Is this saying that the US is rich? The US has some poor people. so I don't think this is true, because with the US rights of freedom and giving the poor money, how can 3 trillion dollars be only a 0.5 percent of the total US budget. I surmise that this is not true and is slightly inaccurate in number.
Getting inspired by science and discovery is one of the most rewarding parts of being a human. But exploring isn’t free, especially not in the space case. What is the price of awe and amazement?
This part is like contradicting itself, because it is saying that getting inspired by science and discovery is on the the most rewarding parts of being a human, but they said there is a price to it. This is bias to normal people in the world because not everyone is rich enough to "buy" this happiness in exploring and the joyfulness of science and discovery.
Always the underdog of the solar system, and discovered only in 1930, we never really knew what Pluto looked like; it is 3 billion miles away, after all.
How did NASA get a spaceship 3 billion miles away, take a picture somehow, and have not advanced technology because it was only in 1930, make it to Pluto? This was practically impossible, because at that time we didn't have a source of so much power or any experience with cameras in space. This makes me wonder how did NASA do it...or did they not?
After the Apollo 8 mission sent back the famous “Earthrise” image, we were able to see ourselves for the first time. There we were, a beautiful blue ball, where everyone lives.
How do cameras work in space? Shouldn't it start flying around like crazy because there was no gravity to keep it on a sturdy place? Not only this, but shouldn't there be meteorites along the way blocking the view of Earth so we can't see it clearly? How does NASA know that the planet was Earth not a nearby planet or star? This is why I think that NASA might have been inaccurate, for at the time before 1990, things weren't as correct as things are now.
Eisenhower said this about the new program: “There are many aspects of space and space technology which can be helpful to all people as the United States proceeds with its peaceful program of space and exploration. Every person has the opportunity to share through understanding in the adventures which lie ahead.”
Even though this speech is saying that space is peaceful and has a good program of exploration in space, I don't think that NASA is worth it at this point in time, because this was just when Space Administration was born and nobody had any idea what and how to build a good and safe spacecraft, and even led to some deaths to astronauts and nearly killed others.
We’ve successfully put laboratories onto the surface of Mars, and we’ve flown by every single planet in our solar system, including the recently promoted asteroid-turned-dwarf planet, Ceres.
How did they find Ceres? Why is it called a asteroid-turned-dwarf planet? How did NASA find all the planets in the solar system? How did NASA put laboratories onto the surface of Mars?
Through this groundbreaking new evidence, it becomes strikingly clear that there is still so much to learn about Titanic and her tragic maiden voyage. Like so many others, I know for a fact that I will forever be completely intrigued by every aspect of her story. As more new evidence and theories are revealed about the sinking of the Titanic, future generations are ensured to be informed about this impactful event in history.
I surmise that the main idea of this passage is to understand the tragic parts of how the titanic sank and how the iceberg was not the only part in making it sink.
It is believed that the fire started as a result of the heat generated by the coal, and, due to the amount of coal that was being contained on the ship, the fire was extremely hard to control.
Why were the crew members so harsh and mean to not turn back and technically killed around 1500 lives? Maybe it is because the captain didn't know about the incident.
She sank about two and a half hours later, lacking enough lifeboats for everyone onboard because of her “unsinkable” status, ultimately claiming more than 1,500 lives.
People had plenty of time to get boats to land, come back and get more people, keep going and maybe even getting on the iceberg! Are the people so scared they can't even move, react, or think?
Of course, I tuned in, and to say that I thought what they found was interesting would be an understatement.
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