This worries me. What if it becomes stuck for real?
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Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Covid was detected in China and the world was alerted. Most other countries didn’t even react, though. That’s hardly on China. From the data we have so far, it was already present and undetected in Europe the year before. It may have originated in Europe, but that isn’t yet clear. Don’t fall to western chauvinism.
China reported to WHO, that it had EVERYTHING under control and that virus was not lethal to humans. China is west to the USA.
At the time it was not yet know that the virus is lethal, that’s all that was reported.
Everything was also under control in China, as was later confirmed. Unfortunately by the time the virus was detected in China, it was already spread throughout Europe, since at least November 2019.
I really didn’t expect this sort of rejection of science and facts on HN.
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#43Seeing how it is positioned, the worst case is that they will not be able to move it and they will have to remove some of the load. This might take a day or three depending on how difficult it is going to get a crane and a ship positioned to take the load off.
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#45Really interesting post! Thanks for sharing. How does something like this happen?
Looks like it swallowed without chewing
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#46Classic DOS attack. Cui bono?
I don't think I'd ever considered prior to now how much more economic it would be to release "The one nuclear bomb [TerroristOrganisation] can afford to muster" in a shipping choke-point, rather than a city. So, another thing to worry about :)
How about a shipping choke point and a city at the same time: https://xkcd.com/748/
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#47According to the Twitter feed there is now a excavator trying to dig out the bow. It really shows off the scale as the excavator looks like a tiny toy next to the massive container ship. https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374468169784459267/pho...
Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's cutting off other ships because when it lost power it drifted sideways and blocked the canal. It's now stuck in both embankments and the only vessels getting past are very flat submarines.
GP is referencing a comment on Instagram [0] that states that it cut off another ship enter the channel /before/ it grounded: > @tjcsalisbury Yepp! And I believe they cut us off this morning entering the canal and then this happened and right after they ran aground the ship behind us lost power and almost hit us so it’s been a fun day lol but now we are just anchored here hopefully it won’t be to long but from the lo…
...which is interesting. Two unrelated ships lost power at the same location on the same day? Curious.
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#49Classic DOS attack. Cui bono?
I don't think I'd ever considered prior to now how much more economic it would be to release "The one nuclear bomb [TerroristOrganisation] can afford to muster" in a shipping choke-point, rather than a city. So, another thing to worry about :)
They'd be crappy terrorists because shipping delays don't cause terror the way real terrorism does.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
China reported to WHO, that it had EVERYTHING under control and that virus was not lethal to humans. China is west to the USA.
At the time it was not yet know that the virus is lethal, that’s all that was reported. Everything was also under control in China, as was later confirmed. Unfortunately by the time the virus was detected in China, it was already spread throughout Europe, since at least November 2019. I really didn’t expect this sort of rejection of science and facts on HN.
IIRC even when Wuhan had been under total lockdown China was still upset that other countries called for flight bans from China. How is that responsible behavior?