How can a "dream" kill people?

How can a seemingly nice person kill himself and take another 150 people along?

by Mike Inger Helmke

 How can a very rich lady who is now "only" rich say nobody understands how she feels? Why do people throw their girlfriends out of the window? Why do famous actors and singers kill themselves either directly or via overdose of drugs?

Titanic to God: "Shut up, I'm busy texting"

What really sank the Titanic

by Mike Inger Helmke

Being too busy sending messages to your friends is nothing new. Passengers of the Titanic already did that a hundred years ago. They left their messages with the ship's radio operator Jack Phillipps who would send them to Cape Race, Newfoundland, where they were forwarded. Not unlike typing our modern text messages with one  finger on our smart phone, they were typed in Morse codeand sent by the latest the state of the art wireless telegraph that had finally made it possible to get a message from a ship across the ocean. And that's what sank the ship...

STARDUST IN MY EYES

By F. G. Helmke

  

It’s been over a decade since this event was reported, yet the following story of a commercial airplane that mysteriously disappeared while on a routine flight still fascinates me: