Users had continued on the story in the spirit of Adams. Six months later there were ten-thousand posts in the mock forum. Grahame kept the forum open for fans of the upcoming game, only to find later that Adams fans had taken this comic easter egg to heart. Buried deep down in a page was a mock forum supposedly being written by the lower-level crew of the Titanic.
Living up to his reputation for seemingly infinite tardiness, Adams admitted just three weeks before the book’s deadline that he hadn’t written a thing, and in the end the novel Douglas Adams’s Starship Titanic was written in a furious cascade of words by none other than Terry Jones (who claimed that he wrote the whole thing in the nude).Įven more interesting, Yoz Grahame, Digital Village’s web developer had been put in charge of creating the game’s promotional web presence. Here are 20 images of what is left of the most famous luxury steamship of its time, the RMS Titanic.But also fun, as Monty Python’s Terry Jones and John Cleese both turn up among the voice actors, the former as a parrot, the latter as a doomsday bomb.Īn article in Kotaku from 2015 mentions a tie-in novel that Adams was to write himself, after first assigning co-writers Neil Richards, Debbie Barham, and Michael Bywater to the task. However, for a price, you can visit what's left of the ship with diving tours being offered next year. According to a 2016 study by, a recently discovered "extremophile bacteria" could eat away at what is left of the most famous shipwreck and by 2030, the Titanic could disappear.
There have been many plans to try and raise the RMS Titanic, but it is just too fragile. However, you won't come across many photos of the stern (the back of the ship), since it has been completely ruined. If you ever search for photos of the Titanic, you'll find numerous showing the bow (the forward part of the ship) still recognizable, even to this day. During the ship's final moments, it broke apart in two and the wreckage was found in two distinct pieces, the stern, "fragmented virtually beyond recognition," and the bow of the ship, "remarkably intact," reports Encyclopedia Titanica. The RMS Titanic has been sitting on the sea floor, 370 miles south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland for 106 years now. The Titanic has fascinated people for years it is undoubtedly the world's most loved shipwreck and easily the most famous. Today, the luxury steamship lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet in the North Atlantic Ocean, decaying and deteriorating over the past century making it almost unrecognizable. The RMS Titanic, otherwise known as the famous "unsinkable" ship met its fate in the early morning of April 15, 1912, when it struck an iceberg.
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