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Three questions: 1. How easy would it be to pay a container ship’s captain to do that ? 2. Can you then bet on short term commodity futures to benefits from the event significantly? 3. Do you think this is what’s happening ?
Normally the ship’s captain isn’t in-charge in the canal. The Suez Port Authority has pilots you have to hire for that.
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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 :)
Suez Canal was out of use from 1967 to 1975. It wasn't great but the sun continued to rise.
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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).
> The question is which animal bridged the gap. Humans with a pipette.
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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 :)
Suez Canal was out of use from 1967 to 1975. It wasn't great but the sun continued to rise.
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Normally the ship’s captain isn’t in-charge in the canal. The Suez Port Authority has pilots you have to hire for that.
Correct; I believe the canal's authority has liability here as they provide the mandatory pilot for the duration of the transit.
In a chapter of "Ninety Percent of Everything", the author rides a container ship through the Suez Canal and relates what it's like, if this has piqued your interest about the shipping industry. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16044961-ninety-percent-...
Aren't they just a dozen Filipinos or Russians keeping the boat clean while the auto pilot makes a slight adjustment every few hours? I'm not sure how exciting it would be.
Ah, that explains it.
> I'm not sure how exciting it would be.
Right now it would be pretty exciting.
I wonder how effective two giant ground based winches would be, pulling on the mooring attachment points, on diagonally opposite sides of the ship? If it remains stuck, perhaps they might need to bring in a suction dredger to work on the area around the bow?
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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)?