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[–] 271 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (27 children)

I always love it when people refer to “this ending” or “this scene” as if everyone is supposed to know what this blurry still is supposed to be from. Even if it was a video, that still doesn’t tell me what it’s from.

Edit: to all the haters…

Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.

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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Never seen it. What happened in this scene?

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  • [–] 108 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    The framing device for the whole movie is that they're searching the wreck to find a priceless necklace, and bring along an old woman, who had it when the ship sank, to help them. She then tells them her story, moves them into abandoning the search, and in the end it's revealed she had it the whole time when she throws it overboard.

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  • [–] 67 points 3 months ago* (9 children)

    Literally the most watched film of all time.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Nonetheless, I would be willing to bet that only a single digit percentage of people on this planet have seen this nearly 30 year-old movie.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    To be fair, Titanic was pretty iconic

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago* (13 children)

    Anyone whose seen it knows where it’s from. It’s the final scene from James Cameron’s Titanic in which Rose throws the infamous jewel into the ocean.

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    [–] 72 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    $1,000,000s of dollar worth

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    The 46 carat Hope Diamond on which the fictional Heart of the Ocean is based, is estimated at $200 - $300 million today.

    The white gold and zirconia prop used in the movie cost around $8,000 but if it were real at 56 carats, it would be valued at more than twice what the Hope Diamond is. Leave it up to Hollywood to invent fictional jewelry and then assign a value it.

    Although, since the diving vessel is directly on top of where the heavy metal necklace would conceivably fall, it might not take too long to locate it on the sea floor:

    The original search area for the Titanic was about 150 square miles, and the Titanic is only about 90 feet wide. So, for every Titanic width-sized object, you would need to search about 1.32 million positions.

    If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift, and the necklace is effectively 4 inches wide, you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions. Although, being directly over the Titanic wreck could hamper metal detecting. It would be pretty ironic if the necklace fell back on to the deck of the wreck.

    So, suck on that ya old entitled bitch!

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    If the search area for the necklace were 1/4 square mile to allow for drift

    Your search area is perhaps a bit small.

    Where, exactly, was the ship she dropped it from at the exact moment she dropped it? Ships move around quite a bit, even when trying to maintain position over a wreck. And how precisely do you know when she dropped it?

    you would only need to search about 435,000 necklace-width positions.

    Only, huh? That's still quite a lot when you're talking about one of the most difficult places on the planet to get to. And because the necklace would likely sink straight into the soft ocean floor mud immediately upon impact, it's likely not going to be just sitting there, easily found with a visual search. You will indeed need to use metal detecting.

    One issue with metal detecting: the main body of the ship only broke into two large parts, sure, but the entire area is going to be scattered with a debris field of small parts and junk. Pieces that broke off as the ship was breaking up, pieces that drifted away as the ship sank, pieces that broke off when it hit the bottom, pieces that were buoyant enough or interesting enough to sea creatures to drift away over the years of sitting at the bottom... You're going to be getting a ton of false positives all over the place. A door hinge, a passenger's pocketwatch, little scraps of broken-off plumbing pipe, a fork, hundreds of little scraps of hull plating...

    Searching through all of that will be extremely tedious (and expensive!), with no guarantee of eventual success. For all you know, a fish spotted the shiny, glinting thing as it sank and instinctively swallowed it, and now your multi-million dollar necklace is 50 miles away, giving some fish a stomachache.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    ... And guess which side the supermajority of boomers are on?

    Its almost like they historically and currently constitute a reliable voting block of people who consistently vote to create all these problems that are otherwise known as the class war.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Rose was Lost Generation, 3 generations before the Boomers!

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    [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    She was part of the Lost Generation, so maybe she was just ahead of her time?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago*

    "One million dollars's of dollar worth of their children and grandchildren's inheritance... "

    I'm tired, boss.

    Edit:

    https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/544/683/ac3.png

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    It wasn't hers anyway.

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