it's on the "under no circumstances should this technology be sold to china" list.
Lol
Don't let technological obsolescence emasculate your surging electronic man-box!
Whew, there's a lot going on here
It's basically the BP Horizon spill, but the problem is not enough flow rather than too much.
I bet we get some cool new rogue wave footage from the constant traffic now. That bit between Madagascar and the Cape, where the warm Indian ocean current slams into the cold South Atlantic current, is infamous for wrecks due to rogue waves.
Sometimes the wave mechanics get really funky and form a rogue trough, which is literally an 80 - 120+ foot deep trench zipping through the ocean.
Sometimes the wave mechanics get really funky and form a rogue trough, which is literally an 80 - 120+ foot deep trench zipping through the ocean.
Do you have any interesting footage of this?
Not yet sadly, they've been documented but no one's been able to film one yet, or if they did, they didn't survive.
There's some good illustrations at the bottom of this page though. https://ecmiindmath.org/2017/01/04/ocean-rogue-waves-a-mystery-unveiled/
Oh wow. That IS interesting. Must be incredibly rare though given the prevalence of cameras and the quantity of boats we've got out there.
This makes me wonder if there's some weird fringe South African political party that despises Egypt for "stealing" the revenue that could come ships passing the Cape of Good Hope.
Moving to South Africa to form a lobbying group to convince the Egyptian government to leave the ship in the canal
There's no way ships have rerouted so quickly. There are tons of routes where it's simply faster to go around the cape.
If Haber-Bosch hadn't slacked ten years in their discovery that fucking war would have never happened.
Death to America anyways.
People is killed over putrid dinousaur-era algae. And wait until you find about "people being let to die because sickos don't make a dollar of them not dying"
It’s really expensive to go through the canal, so I imagine that most goods don’t move through there unless it’s time-critical or valuable.
Also some ships gotta go from Ivory Coast to Australia.
Why is so expensive? Taxes?
Yeah, the Suez canal is extermely imlportant for the just-in-time-production that dominates our economy, and also a lot of oil passes there. But Egypt also has the largest population of all the Arab nations, and a large cultural influence in the Arab world, so that's a second reason I think.
"Come to Cairo, where you can incite cultural tensions and plan military invasions all in the same place!"
the canal charges a fee of around half a million I think
EDIT: looks like the average was around $300k for 2020 , but it's size dependent so it's probably closer to half a mill for huge ships like this
That's bizarre considering the panama canal costs at most 10 grand for the largest ships.
edit: I'm wrong, and wow canal fess are fucking complicated holy shit.
that conflicts with what I'm seeing on wikipedia :
The most expensive regular toll for canal passage to date was charged on April 14, 2010 to the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl, which paid US$375,600. The average toll is around US$54,000.
I think I was looking at the ship length fee, not the tonnage fee that's on top of the ship fee.
I tried to look up the fee structure directly and wow is that shit complicated
https://www.pancanal.com/eng/op/tariff/1010-0000-Rev17Mar2021.pdf
I know it's not what people want to hear, but every time I see a traffic map like this, I just become hyper aware of how much human activity is happening, constantly, and how meaningful action on climate change is impossible.
meaningful action on climate change is impossible
Meaningful action is very possible. Just not individualist meaningful action.
So much for modernity
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW WESTERN MAN?!?!?!?
You can do Europa Universalis IV if you just draw a penis with a ship and crash it. I should have been a merchant mariner.
makes u wonder why we not using blimps? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191107-how-airships-could-return-to-our-crowded-skies
Cramping myself into a wildly fuel inefficient and uncomfortable metal tube for 6-20 hours resenting everone on board and unable to use internet :geordi-no:
Boarding a maritime vessel like our ancestors to experience far off lands during a journey that lasts 3-25 days offering a unique change of environment as well as comraderie with fellow travelers and 24/7 access to memes?
:geordi-yes:
also if you want to transport heavy containers blimps are probably not a good idea
Slightly more efficient than building a skyhook.
Also, nothing but love and respect for Well There's Your Problem. Literally always good.
