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OccludedFug t1_iun00q4 wrote

This is why we can't have nice things.

What are people going to do with their relics anyway?

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littlebubulle t1_iunu6bq wrote

Possible reasons :

  • Braggging about having a relic.
  • Selling to people so the latter can brag about having a relic.
  • Bragging about how they don't respect the authorities.
  • Maybe magic spells.
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c1496011 t1_iurvcx1 wrote

CV material for applying to the British Museum?

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pegothejerk t1_iun36l4 wrote

Clone more ships of course.

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r0ndy t1_iun41bo wrote

You wouldn't download a car and steal it, would you?!

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Matterhock t1_iun9nyr wrote

You know, at some point in the future people will be literally doing exactly that

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pegothejerk t1_iune4qd wrote

Either that or unknowingly reinventing the wheel, not sure which yet

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Komm t1_iuoi5p4 wrote

I mean... I have... 3D printing is neat.

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tindalos t1_iuo9me2 wrote

But if you build a new ship around the relics of the original is it a new ship or is it the original one repaired?

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Dzotshen t1_iunxxhk wrote

Honestly. I remember on the Big Fat Quiz with Jimmy Carr, a hundred years ago people were given a small pick to chisel off a bit of Stonehenge to take home with them and my eyes got big as saucers in disbelief

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CountBeetlejuice t1_iurskea wrote

keep them. unlike the state who is letting the wreck simply disintegrate

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[deleted] t1_iunfcq4 wrote

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littlebubulle t1_iunp89u wrote

If it didn't matter, no one would be taking it away piece by piece at all.

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Gandydancer t1_iunth9f wrote

Neo up there doing everything they can to dodge factbullets like these.

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OccludedFug t1_iunjs8l wrote

For one, let's let history be history,

and for two, somebody is going to get hurt or sick because they were picking that trash, and since it's state property, they'll sue the state and win.

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breadexpert69 t1_iundh6u wrote

Its 2022, ppl wont listen or obey. You have to assume people are just like animals.

Best they can do is put the thing behind a huge glass wall

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BrutusGregori t1_iuoyx2t wrote

Humans in general. Fuck you got mine attitude is a cancer.

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CountBeetlejuice t1_iursb9m wrote

you do realize the state is making no effort to preserve it and its just going to be submerged and disintegrate

i could understand if the state wanted to preserve it, but they dont. they are leaving it to waste away.

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TinyAd280 t1_iunfimz wrote

Louisiana strikes again (yeah, I'm from there).

The shipwreck is on state property, but the state doesn't plan to do anything with the ship. But they're stopping people from dismantling it. Later on, they'll have to pay somebody to do just that.

Too lazy to search for a *facepalm* emoji

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charlezk t1_iuo1c7i wrote

Pretty sure the article said that when the water rises again it will just go back to being submerged, so they won't be paying anyone to do anything.

But yeah, I laughed at the

>Why is the state department concerned about visitors taking away mementos from the S.S. Brookhill if they have no plans to preserve it? McGimsey explained that it's state property and they want it left the way it is.

So basically it's "because we said so, and we also said it's ours so nyah"

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Marokiii t1_iup2p6t wrote

Or because state property is state property. Just because someone isn't actively using something doesn't mean it's now free for everyone else to just take.

The shipwreck could last decades(theres a sailboat shipwreck near where i live and its been there longer than ive been alive. No active preservation is going on with it)or even longer if just left alone, allowing many people to visit it and see it. If people start to take it apart piece by piece than soon no one will be able to see it.

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Delicious-Day-3614 t1_iunwpr5 wrote

Those are not the same thing and it's unclear why you're making that equivocation. Facepalm is right.

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logicallyinsane t1_iuo59qr wrote

Louisiana should recover the abandoned ship if it's that important, otherwise leaving it there is akin to willful littering of a public waterway.

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molotovzav t1_iun7tk3 wrote

I hate people. I just don't understand why most of you are so dumb and greedy?

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Gandydancer t1_iunt5vu wrote

> I just don’t understand why most of you are so dumb and greedy?

That’s the bell curve’s TDC, friendo.

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flanderguitar t1_iun9s7a wrote

It's too expensive for the state to conserve. Also, the water levels will submerge it once again soon.

Maybe some activist will glue their hand to it or something?

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Delicious-Day-3614 t1_iunwz1u wrote

Because the people writing the article did not intend for you to realize they weren't literally destroying millions of dollars of art.

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Noisy_Toy t1_iuoujwc wrote

Yep. And everyone says “why didn’t they target corp buildings first?” They did. They didn’t make international news until they targeted the artwork.

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flanderguitar t1_iunb0tq wrote

I remember someone recommended the galleries just take the paintings out of the case and leave the glued loser as its own art piece. lol

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Co1dNight t1_iuofhuq wrote

Hearing this shit happen to things that have historical or natural value makes me sick.

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WirelessBCupSupport t1_iund5s3 wrote

Friend has this cool rock collection (geology, not music). I look at one and its really amazing. He's like, want it? Can I? and then tells me its petrified wood from the Petrified forest and ...

its poaching/theft as that is a protected park.

(no, I didn't take the offer. But I did give him shit and said the gods would be appeased if he mailed it back to the park service...)

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CountBeetlejuice t1_iurswtp wrote

if there was going to be any effort to preserve this ship, i would be on the side of the researchers

but there isnt, its going to get submerged and just disappear

ironically all that would be preserved is what the tourists keep.

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whiskeyboundcowboy t1_iupe90j wrote

The rule I follow when diving, Take pictures, leave only bubbles. We should take care of our dive sites for all to enjoy into the future. I'm constantly cleaning out dive sites that everyone dumps their trash into. I want everyone to experience diving and being underwater.

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