#when the boat got stuck

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emustelidae:

Readingthis article about the Ever Given and the Suez Canal makes me feel like I’m living in an alternative reality in which Douglas Adams decided to become a science journalist

[ID: four text excerpts, reading first, “Ever Given is a very large boat. And very large boats in confined channels do not move in car-like ways.” Second, “Sailors talk about hydrodynamics the way CEOs talk about macroeconomics: they either treat it with mystical reverence, or they claim to understand it and are wrong.” Third, “…physical models in a lab. As in: you build little boats and then you drag them through the water, in a towing tank. Hydrodynamics is what a five-year old would do, if a five-year old had a PhD.” (last sentence is highlighted.) Fourth, “By any historical standards, the Ever Given is a monster. But it’s a monster in a specific way: it’s fat. The more containers you can” (cuts off) /end ID]

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