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Is that ship still stuck?
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#712Earlier quoted context omitted.
What if they retrofitted the propeller as a winch and connected a steel cable?
Just dragging the ship across the sand risks damaging the hull and making the situation worse
Not to mention dragging a 300,000,000 pound ship through sand is... difficult.
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#713I 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…
>You're basically asking to build a port in the middle of the egyptian desert. No. Helicopters. 10 helis, 1 container/sortie, 10 sorties/hour = 10000 containers in 5 days.
Just set up a ski lift-like structure on both sides of a canal, and run it with containers instead of skiers
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#714This is an awful amount of weight to be moved. But one thing it has going is that all of the weight is on a vessel that is designed to float. We have canal locks that can lift ships this size.
So my crazy idea is to build a reverse cofferdam around the ship with Larssen steel pilings and pump water into it until the ship floats and straighten the ship and remove the pilings.
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#715Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's using OpenLayers. https://openlayers.org/
OpenLayers uses OSM. If you go to the VesselFinder website, you can see them give credit to OSM in that map and the OpenLayers website mentions they use OSM. Guess I should have mentioned OpenLayers too since it actually implements the map UI so ty.
OSM is primarily just a datasource. Different consumers of the data will have different UIs and performance.
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#716Some of the news stories like this: https://nypost.com/2021/03/24/giant-container-ship-blocking-... are claiming that ship is partially free, what does it mean ? I am confused ....
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#717Earlier quoted context omitted.
For moving containers off the best bet would probably be heavy lift choppers, the ship is large enough you could have several working on it at once and then just drop them off nearby to be loaded onto barges or something. A huge undertaking but it any weight taken off the Evergreen is less digging they have to do and the time is so expensive. Also it's less middle of nowhere there's a pretty large airbase nearby it l…
Have you ever tried to stack containers before? Or had to airlift something via tow on a helicopter? You can do the latter (I watched it happen in the military), but the former isn’t happening from a helicopter, not into a floating barge anyway.
The ship isn't floating though, that's the problem. But I'd imagine it's very stable when trying to lift stuff of due to it being stuck.
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#718Earlier quoted context omitted.
Kind of amazing that in 48 hours, an event happens that threatens one of Egypts major income streams and political power sources, and the maximum they can spare is 2 bulldozers... Like why not call in the army, rent every bulldozer in the district, and within 12 hours you'll have 30 on site and be able to move a lot of sand quickly to free it?
Is it possible someone is blocking the canal on purpose? For some geopolitical reason maybe.
Can't stop. Won't stop. Game stop.
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#719My non-techie wife just said to me, "We need to NFT this situation somehow." She's been down that rabbit hole ever since reading about the Beeple piece.
I hope she reads the article about Beeple fraud. Buyer and owner of that art are basically investors in the same nft comp, there is no transaction either. It's just a PR.
I feel like everyone was going through massive amounts mental gymnastics to justify how NFTs are not just a scam like they look on the surface but how they are actually legitimate. News companies chipped in with the "well um actually value is just made up anyway"
But no, in the end it was just another crypto scam.
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#720It’s refreshing to see a problem that’s easy to identify.