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[WDT] IT'S SPRING, BABY! [NSFW]

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by bewildered, Mar 19, 2021.

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  1. Nettdata

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    Lloyd’s of london is estimating the impact of this blockage to be $400 million AN HOUR.
     
    #141 Nettdata, Mar 26, 2021
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    They'll probably start unloading it (if they haven't already), and try to surround it with buoys and float it a little higher, so it can be tugged one way or another.

    If it sinks, it still blocks the canal, and it's not like they can vaporize a container ship.

    One of the larger implications for this is the emphasis it places on alternative shipping paths through Europe, which Russia has been tinkering with for the past millenium.
     
    #142 downndirty, Mar 26, 2021
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    Can't Elon Musk and James Cameron get together to save the day? Between the Boring Company's equipment and the sunken boat airbag lifter thingies, this should be possible.
     
    #143 Rush-O-Matic, Mar 26, 2021
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    There is no problem that cannot be solved with the proper amount of explosives.
     
    #144 Misanthropic, Mar 26, 2021
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    They're making this much to difficult. Just strap like 100 JATO's on the forward starboard and 100 on the aft port and set them all off at the same time.
     
    #146 toytoy88, Mar 26, 2021
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    What kind of magical missile strike is going to effectively wipe the ship off the face of the earth (not leaving enormous pieces of it floating or sinking in the canal, still blocking things) without destroying the neighboring ships and the canal itself, not to mention releasing whatever toxic materials it might be carrying?
     
    #147 Binary, Mar 26, 2021
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    Hey, you want to make an omelette?

    You gotta break some eggs.
     
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    Couple of MOABS would do the trick. Got to implode a building to remove the rubble.
     
    #149 Kubla Kahn, Mar 26, 2021
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    Guys, guys, this is easy. Drop all the napalm leftover from the Vietnam war in the Arctic. Melting ice raises the sea level. Boat floats away. Booyah.
     
    #150 Rush-O-Matic, Mar 26, 2021
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    There is no easy solve. This is as fucked as fucked could possibly be. One of the largest vehicles on the planet, fully loaded. Bagger 288 is probably the only man-made thing heavier. Green Lantern’s ring will not budge that fucking thing an inch.

    That ship is the Suez dam now and people had better start fuelling and going around Africa, because that fucking thing is going nowhere for a long time.
     
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    Can they flood the canal to raise the ship?
     
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    I'm not sure it has any locks in it. It's the locks that you can control the water levels, etc, which would enable that part of the canal to be flooded... and I'm not sure that the amount of flooding they'd need to do without a lock wouldn't fuck up a lot of the land around the current canal, as it looks pretty flat.

    I think they need to bring in a team of mining/excavation experts to help them out.

    They need to find the GLORY HOLE!!!!

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    #154 Nettdata, Mar 26, 2021
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    Yea but he’d fuck it up and cause a mutiny.
     
    #155 xrayvision, Mar 26, 2021
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    It's a ship that's run aground. I'll allow it.
     
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    I don't see how a tweet calling the captain a pedophile is going to get the boat unstuck.
     
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    There are no locks. You can look at it on Google maps. It is literally a trench dug through sand like you used to do at the beach.
     
    #158 Rush-O-Matic, Mar 26, 2021
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    this may be a dumb and/or oversimplified question, but.... why wasn't this kind of scenario already predicted and contingency plans made?
     
    #159 Revengeofthenerds, Mar 26, 2021
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    Yeah, that’s what I saw as well but am no clogged canal expert so didn’t want to speak authoritatively.
     
    #160 Nettdata, Mar 26, 2021
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