As with countless other historical events, we are reminded by the Titantic incident how the arrogance of humans leads inevitably to their painful loss. No matter how big, how strong, how durable we make things, nature will always find a way to overcome our will to control our world and remind us just how puny we really are. We can be flicked aside with little more effort than it takes to flick away a bug. We are figuratively as fragile as the most delicate of glass figurines.