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Ship happens
It was buoy to happen at some point. Edit: should of ended it with “schooner or later”
Should have...
Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
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#52If you go to vesselfinder you can follow the drama in real-time! Seems it's still stuck: https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000
Cool. It even shows the 7 tugs trying to help.
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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.
You think someone was bribed to choke up the canal or something? What incentive would you have to do something like that? Is this part of a spy movie?
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#54I guess it won't be too hard to unjam it, but imagine how the world would change if it does get stuck, everyone would now have to go around Africa, probably boosting a few African economies. A bit like how a tiny bat (citation needed?) changed the course of the world for at least a year.
The pangolin seems to be the bridge species. Bats have tons of coronaviruses, but none of them usually infect humans. The question is which animal bridged the gap. Kinda like how the Mink was going to become the bridge-species in Denmark (humans infected Minks with COVID19... and then the mink was probably going to infect another species after that).
> Bats have tons of coronaviruses
Out of curiosity - are bats affected by these coronaviruses? If not, what's different about bats (as compared to humans)?
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#56Any fans of What We Do in the Shadows here? Getting strong vibes from the second season when Colin Robinson parks his car across the entrance to the Lincoln tunnel.
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#57Its time to create a canal through israel
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#59a video from 4 months ago, what it normally looks like to transit the canal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwdU2cYRbnM
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> probably boosting a few African economies. Do you mean some production would shift to Africa, or something else?
Some lucky places can open ports for the giant ships to stop and refuel/resupply, that brings a lot of income. Though maybe I've got the scale wrong, and these ships can just buy more fuel and more food at their departure ports and go around Africa without stopping...
They just go around. It’s not catastrophic just adds cost and time. No refueling or ports required for these mega carriers. We’d go around the cape sometimes just because of loads, some aren’t allowed through, or because fees were too high for the value of cargo. Depending on the size of the carrier it can add 20 days or so to the voyage.