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I think that number is from the dredgers rather than the excavators. Dredgers (ships) can shift sand faster than dozens of excavators.
It looks like you would be correct! Although the 27,000 metric tons appears to have been on point. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56547383
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Also, if we’re being honest, a pack of software nerds on a website don’t have the deep expertise on every topic like they think they do (speaking as a software nerd on a website myself :)). The stuff that gets posted here sometimes is...fascinating.
To be fair, there were a number of people chiming in who were claiming to be experienced in that area (ex Navy captains, people who did dredging ops, etc). One of the big things that changed the timeline was that the highest tide of the month occurred yesterday; if not, I imagine that ship would be stuck for another month!
Of course each meter of depth is a little harder, but not that much harder.
It's worth looking at the discussion of the ship just three days ago on Hacker News[1]. A lot of what people thought was true (that it would be stuck there for weeks, being dismissive of using tugboats to pull it out) didn't pan out as expected. Just a reminder that we should always take what we read with a grain of salt, and that it's fine to reserve judgement and see what will actually happen after the initial medi…
To be fair: Maersk, biggest shipping company in the world also came to the conclusion that it will take longer and sent their ships the way around africa. It's always a gamble and every outcome has it's probabilities.
Looks like https://istheshipstillstuck.com/ has updated their message!
[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/containers/id120955917... "iTunes"
[2]: https://soundcloud.com/containersfmg "SoundCloud"
[3]: https://www.stitcher.com/show/containers "Stitcher"
What a surprise it didn’t need nuclear ordinance or building giant elaborate dams or millions of helicopters.
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Delivery to end customers is not equivalent to delivery as part of a supply chain. Instead of $1K of iPhones, think of it as $1Mn worth of components for a manufacturing process or items to be placed on a shelf. Many of those items' shipping timeframes are well-known and factored into calculations of supply and demand. If a customer wants to buy something from you and you're out of stock, they're generally not going…
So what you're saying is, "it's complicated"?
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As someone who watches a few too many YouTube videos on all things space, I consider myself to be a leading cosmologist, astrophysicist, and rocket scientist. I can speak w/ great confidence to anyone who knows nothing about these subjects.
> I can speak w/ great confidence to anyone who knows nothing about these subjects. heh sorry, can't tell how serious you're being. but it tickles my brain that there's someone who would also vibe with that byline: con artists :)
Did you know my experimental observations of quantum gravity & string theory are as good, if not better, than the world's top scientists? If you print this comment on paper, I will have been published & peer reviewed, too!
That's too bad. Now the hysterical media will have to find something else to get worked up about.
Oh, this was actually a fun disaster compared to almost anything else! If only we could live in a world where the worst international news story is a big boat being temporarily stuck with people making silly memes about it.
This boat was going to be stuck for weeks, and maybe forever!
...and now they'll shift to absurd hyperbole on some other topic that is potentially more damaging.
Good thing hacker news doesn't run large civil engineering projects.
Good thing hacker news doesn't run large civil engineering projects.