#when the boat got stuck
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]