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proof that everything ends, and that ending leaves something worth staring at

means The broken remains of something that has been destroyed, especially a vehicle or structure after a crash or disaster.

from From 'wreck' plus the noun-forming suffix '-age' (as in 'baggage' or 'breakage'). 'Wreck' came into English through Anglo-Norman 'wrec,' borrowed from a Scandinavian source — related to Old Norse 'rek,' meaning something driven ashore by the sea, itself tied to 'reka,' to drive or push. The earliest wrecks were literal: ships and cargo flung onto the coast by the waves, washed up for the staring.

salvage law
finders of shipwrecks can legally claim the spoils
reefs reborn
sunken wrecks become thriving artificial coral ecosystems
black boxes
actually bright orange, to be found in debris
time capsule
Titanic's wreckage preserves shoes but not bodies
investigator gold
crash debris patterns reveal exactly how things failed
for instance

titanic wreckage — rms titanic sank april 1912 in north atlantic, discovered 3,800m deep in 1985

hindenburg wreckage — german airship exploded may 1937 in lakehurst, new jersey killing 35 people

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