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| Easy does it! Ever Given container ship that blocked the Suez Canal sparking global trade chaos finally resumes its journey after £400million settlement |
| 2021-07-08 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #11 "Believe in Bernoulli or die As your airplanes all fall from the sky." Or believe even more So those airplanes will soar With no limit how high they can fly! |
| Posted by: Unusonter Splat8231 2021-07-08 22:29 |
| #10 There us no god but Bernoulli ... and Steve S is His Prophet PBUH |
| Posted by: Grampaw Gurly-Brown5323 2021-07-08 22:18 |
| #9 It's better than helicopters. Don't they only fly by being so ugly the ground rejects them? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-08 22:04 |
| #8 Careful there! If we stop believing in the Bernoulli Effect, airplanes everywhere will crash to the ground. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-08 21:46 |
| #7 Move over, Butterfly Effect. Make room for the Steve S/Suez/Bernoulli Effect |
| Posted by: Glung Barnsmell8789 2021-07-08 21:38 |
| #6 Yah, it's gonna be another two months before my oscillation overthruster comes in. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-07-08 21:32 |
| #5 Gotta figure they're looking at how to set up the next episode. A skeptical man is always open to other possibilities, but I found the accident story believable. IIRC, it was a very windy day. A loaded container ship has a huge sail area. When a ship is in a channel, if it gets too close to the bank, the Bernoulli effect kicks in and forces the ship closer to the bank. The close end of the ship is more strongly affected and it turns sideways. Add in maneuvering complications from high winds, and there you are - stuck in the middle of the effin' Suez Canal. That said, seeing how easy it was to generate a little global chaos has to give bad actors some ideas for a re-run. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-07-08 21:17 |
| #4 So who got the half billion + dollar settlement? The Egyptian government, which spent lots of money getting the ship loose, and will spend even more repairing the damage to the canal. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-08 20:48 |
| #3 So who got the half billion + dollar settlement? Gotta figure they're looking at how to set up the next episode. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-07-08 15:05 |
| #2 What is piracy again? "Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy" Oh. Privateering uses similar methods to piracy, but the captain acts under orders of the state authorizing the capture of merchant ships belonging to an enemy nation, making it a legitimate form of war-like activity by non-state actors. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-08 12:43 |
| #1 It was among the |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-07-08 00:38 |