>>This idea gets kicked around every few years. Never seems to get much
>>of anywhere.
>>
>>--G.
>
>This version's the brainchild of Clive Palmer, an Australian mining
>magnate whose other claims to fame include public ally accusing one of
>our political parties of being run by the CIA, attempting to line his
>golf course with 150 life-size animatronic dinosaurs and being rich as
>fuck. My girlfriend's got an interest in mining and thinks he won't go
>through with it, but I'm not sure.

Hopefully, he won't go so far into 'accuracy uber alles' that it doesn't comply with modern safety standards, like watertight compartments that aren't water tight, or only having enough life boats for a fraction of the crew and passengers... if it gets built at all.

"They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on."
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington