The Comet of the TITANIC

In 1910, Thomas Andrews brought his wife and young daughter to see the construction of the TITANIC and it's progress when they saw a bright light in the distance flying over the bow. Through reviews of the accounts, historians and scientists concluded that this was Halley's Comet which appears every 76 years and last appeared in 1986. Comets are pieces of rock in gravitational orbit of which gives the tail. The ones viewed by the beings of earth are either in gravitational orbitation of the earth or the sun. The moon however, is too small for the orbit of comets. The comets surrounding the earth eventually too close to the atmosphere and burn up. Those of which ironically orbit the sun, do not come into close enough proximity to burn up. Halley was a revered royal astronomer of which saw the comet, studied records, and predicted that it would appear in 76 years. Sure enough, it was seen 76 years later and 5 years after Halley's death. Thomas Andrews said that the comet was a good omen and some say that but some say today that the one flying over the TITANIC was a bad one. Comets (in general)usually considered good omens are out when something good is happening like when Isaac Newton was born, and probably when Jesus was born (the star for the wise men), when Christopher Columbus was born, and many other happenings. You be the judge on whether Halley's Comet was a good omen or bad.

Titanic's Construction

The Titanic began at a dinner party when two people named J. Bruce Ismay and Lord Pirrie, head of Harland and Wolff in Ireland. Along with the Titanic, Harland and Wolff planned on building two other ships the Olympic and the Gigantic in 1907.
Titanic started construction in 1911. She was 882 feet long, 90 feet wide and 11 stories high. Titanic took 1 year to complete in construction. She had 3 million rivets in her hull. On January 7th, 1911, Titanic was launched, but it was just an empty hull. Titanic went to dry dock, where they drained out the water and built the inside and put on the propellers. They also painted her and put in the furniture, boilers, and engines. Some of her rooms on her were a lounge, Turkish Bath, Grand staircase, Aft Staircase, and the Smoking room. She could have room for 2,200 on board. Her captain was E.J. Smith. Titanic was going to have three funnels, but Lord Pirrie thought four would be grander. Ismay and Andrews, the designers of the ship were also passengers on the ship. Titanic was finally ready on April 1st, 1912. She was 882 ½ feet long, 90 feet wide and 11 stories high.