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Re: Is that ship still stuck?

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Post by saberdancer »

tediousdemise wrote: post #244

Is it naive to suggest that they start digging a detour around this roadblock? I feel like it would take less time to do that than to try to move the ship out of the way. The Army Corps of Engineers can build waterways and levies like it's nobody's business.

Dig it with what? By the time you could get anything in place and start digging any sort of a detour, you'll get this ship removed.

This is not a small detour. These ships can't turn well so any detour would need to be very long and would take months to dig out (even if you had infrastructure in place to do it).

You could nuke it though. Throw a bunch of nukes in a line and you are good to go. :D

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Post by BrianOnHN »

nomy99 wrote: post #164
blhack wrote: post #39

I 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…

People think I'm joking but we should bomb it to smithereens. The crater would probably just fill up with the water flow.

What would be the total loss cost of this ship?

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Post by HPsquared »

neartheplain wrote: post #205
qbasic_forever wrote: post #68

Comedy 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?

Better Cold War option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare The ship’s a total loss, but Egypt also gets a new lake!

Those passing through the area afterwards might not like that idea.

Re: Is that ship still stuck?

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Post by kergonath »

dcolkitt wrote: post #38
ksec wrote: post #8

~15% of the World's trade is dependent on it and this is taking much longer than expected. Why?

My question, for those who know more about this domain than me, is this a problem that enough money could fix? If the governments of the world wrote a $1 trillion blank check, would that be enough to get the ship out in the next 24 hours? Or is this a problem that money alone can't solve?

At some point no amount of money is enough to overcome Physics.

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Post by qbasic_forever »

Denvercoder9 wrote: post #295
qbasic_forever wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh what about magnetism? Could we wrap the ship in wire and send so much current through that it repels against the Earth's magnetic field and shoots itself right into the atmosphere? Basically building a giant rail gun. Might need a small nuclear power plant or two to make it feasible.

> Might need a small nuclear power plant or two to make it feasible. Amazingly, that's a severe underestimation. The force on a wire carrying current in a magnetic field is given by F = B*I*l, and to move it upwards that force needs to be at least equal to gravity, so equate to F = m*g. - Let's be generous and assume B = 100 uT = 100 * 10^-6 T. - Likewise, assume the ship is a rectangular box with sides of 400 m x 10…

Well, on the bright side once we free it with this incredible contraption then we've also solved all of humanity's power needs for a few more centuries. :)

Re: Is that ship still stuck?

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Post by [deleted] »

qbasic_forever wrote: post #248
neartheplain wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Better Cold War option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare The ship’s a total loss, but Egypt also gets a new lake!

You know there's probably someone doing the cost-benefit analysis right now to see if just digging a new canal channel around the ship would be faster and cheaper than removing it.

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