Genuine question: why not simply pull its back in the reverse direction it was going, until its front is unstuck?
the stern is stuck already in the other bank
Is that ship still stuck?
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#152Comedy option, what wacky cold war era aircraft do we have capable of lifting massive loads like a container ship? Perhaps an enormous fleet of Chinook helicopters could take it straight up?
I'd be amazed if the density of weight on the ship is such that an arbitrarily large fleet of Chinooks could actually safely accomplish this. And helicopters flying in a dense formation under strain is quite likely to result in a lot of really big problems.
Now I wonder...
Let's assume it was possible. Would the force of lifting that much mass be enough to shift the earth in a measurable way? (I'm assuming it would be a lot stronger lifting it into the air than what floating on the water produces, but have no idea what the math would be)
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#153Re: Is that ship still stuck?
#154Comedy option, what wacky cold war era aircraft do we have capable of lifting massive loads like a container ship? Perhaps an enormous fleet of Chinook helicopters could take it straight up?
It has a 20,000 container capacity, so if it's full and you could unload them at a rate of 1 per minute (assuming multiple choppers) it would take 2 weeks with no stopping, but I assume the frequency would be much lower than that so you're talking possibly months to unload even a fraction of them.
Also - it's quite possible it'd further beach itself during the unloading unless you replaced the mass in an easily removable manner... To which end I'd like to suggest self-launching lead trebuchets.
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#155I don't think people are giving enough credit to how stuck the ship is. Look at some of the photos of the front of it. Look at how far out of the water it is sitting. The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this. Some people saying: just drag it off of the sand. Okay! And what happens when that causes you to rip a hole into the hull of the ship? Now it's real…
Love the armchair engineers who think they're gonna solve this better than billion dollar companies
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#156Smit are like the Winston Wolf of the shipping business. No problem too big to solve.
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#157I don't think people are giving enough credit to how stuck the ship is. Look at some of the photos of the front of it. Look at how far out of the water it is sitting. The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this. Some people saying: just drag it off of the sand. Okay! And what happens when that causes you to rip a hole into the hull of the ship? Now it's real…
Military does it all the time with helicopters. Not cheap or easy but probably the most likely outcome
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#158Comedy option, what wacky cold war era aircraft do we have capable of lifting massive loads like a container ship? Perhaps an enormous fleet of Chinook helicopters could take it straight up?
(200,000 short tons) / (130,000 pounds lifting capacity) = 3,076 Spruce... Geese.
I'm imagining an incredible system of hooks setup so that the fleet of Spruce Gooses pass over at low altitude and speed, snare the hooks, and YOINK pull it right out in one pass.
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#159~15% of the World's trade is dependent on it and this is taking much longer than expected. Why?
Because your expectations were far too high.
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#160I don't think people are giving enough credit to how stuck the ship is. Look at some of the photos of the front of it. Look at how far out of the water it is sitting. The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this. Some people saying: just drag it off of the sand. Okay! And what happens when that causes you to rip a hole into the hull of the ship? Now it's real…
Love the armchair engineers who think they're gonna solve this better than billion dollar companies
Just let the air out of the tires, simple.