amazing website and the voiceover was also really good!!
Shipmap.org
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#92This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> nobody goes in the southern ocean! (Why would they?...)
For the fish — plenty of trawlers in the Southern Ocean.
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#93This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> nobody goes in the southern ocean! (Why would they?...) For the fish — plenty of trawlers in the Southern Ocean.
There's currently a guy, Jari Saario, rowing across from South America to South Africa. Lots of icebergs indeed. https://www.instagram.com/jari_saario/
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#94My son loves trains. There are a couple of state parks near me that have tracks running through them and I once tried to find something like this / flight tracker for trains and learned their security / obfuscation around that seems to be on the same level of submarines? Why?
Probably because it's easier to rob a traveling train than a traveling ship.
Also, if you're a plane or a boat it's really important everyone knows where you are for general safety / rescue reasons. On a (consolidated and decently organised) railroad the railway operators can take care of all of that.
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#95Side note you can watch timelapse videos taken of ships crossing the oceans, the night stars look great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHrCI9eSJGQ
Stunningly beautiful.
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#96Great visualization. IMO 2020 regulation unintentionally contributed to global warming while reducing air pollution. This rule drastically cut the amount of sulfur permitted in ship fuel, which improved public health but reduced the reflective effect of atmospheric aerosols that had been masking some global warming. You'd think the people making the rules would try and look at all the impacts.
The cooling effect of SO2 was certainly known when the IMO regulations were decided upon. It was decided that the public health advantages outweighed the climate warming. One can certainly quibble whether this decision was correct or not, but it wasn't done in ignorance.
(My take would have been be to allow high sulphur fuel out on the high seas, where there's very few humans around (or flora and fauna in general). )
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#97This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> 6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties “Below 40 degrees south, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
I hiked Torres del Paine around 51 deg south about 12 years ago and the winds were no joke. On plains or in mountain passes it was absolutely howling. It felt like you could lean into it at a 60 deg angle and not fall over. Sometimes when the trail went close to a steep edge with nothing to break the wind I felt like I needed to crouch, ready to get on the ground, in case a gust caught me.
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#98'...Some more than a quarter of a mile long...' Sorry this information is not for me, I cannot deal in those units, I have no clue how much that is.
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#99Interesting to see no ships in Hudson Bay, given its importance in early North American history.
It was only good as a way for the British to get into the north for fur trade, since the French controlled Canada/New France (and the St Lawrence/Great Lakes waterways)
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#100This is weirdly beautiful, like the maps of undersea internet cables that frequently come up here as well. You can clearly see: 1) oil flowing out of the Persian Gulf from the Middle East to China 2) ships waiting to get through the Panama and Suez Canals 3) why people talk about “shipping lanes”. There are some obvious tracks everyone follows, because it’s the cheapest way from A to B (e.g. cape of good hope to stra…
> 4) why Singapore got to be such an important global hub.
Thailand is still dreaming of building a canal to create an alternative option.