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World's largest capacity container ship embarks on maiden voyage
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| December 7, 2014
| Darren Quick
Posted on 12/08/2014 5:37:47 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER
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To: central_va; SWAMPSNIPER
As SWAMPSNIPER said,
“I remember a time when America could have built that.”
The cost of 40+ years of liberalism.
Hopey-Changey...
Our grandchildren are going to be damning us for sitting on our asses while the American Left destroyed this country. And we deserve it....
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:03:50 PM PST
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: tcrlaf
Well now isn’t that interesting. I was about to ask how fast those dockside cranes would be able to load and unload, thinking US ports, but Mexican’s doing the jobs American’s won’t do, works for me. /s
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:10:21 PM PST
by
wita
To: nascarnation
Their added-for-scale human at 1.85m high is about 6’10”tall! It must be one of my tall chinese cousins.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:15:03 PM PST
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: mrsmith
More than one Farad can make a large spark.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:15:15 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Cvengr
funny in the picture they have all four smokestacks pumpimg out smoke.
#4 was fake.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:16:02 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: tophat9000
How many men and how quickly could it transport to Taiwain? Seems like it’d be a hell of a Trojan horse with enough cover.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:16:07 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: SamAdams76
“Eventually we will have ships that are 25 miles long, five miles wide and about 200 stories high.”
Royal Caribbean’s new “Oasis” class ships, like “Allure of the Seas, is almost 1,200 fett long, and 225,000 tons!
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:21:17 PM PST
by
tcrlaf
(They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
To: Rio
You’re a bit optimistic
1.85 meters times 3.28 ft/meter = 6.06 ft
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:28:40 PM PST
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, Convict, Deport)
To: goldstategop
Wow, looks like it could hold a lot of cheap Chinese crap.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:28:44 PM PST
by
Bullish
(He's just NOT presidential material.)
To: nascarnation
If there were ever an accident on that boat, well a feller sure could lose a lot of his guns.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:38:17 PM PST
by
Riverine
To: SamAdams76
Eventually we will have ships that are 25 miles long, five miles wide and about 200 stories high.
I suspect that we're probably pretty close to the upper limit now. A ship 25 miles long would have to deal with bending around the curvature of the earth.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:45:53 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: tcrlaf
"Our grandchildren are going to be damning us for sitting on our asses while the American Left destroyed this country. And we deserve it...."Sure, if they learn any history...
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:47:16 PM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: mrsmith
How many coulombs? You’d be shocked.
To: knarf
These ships are designed for specific ports/routes.
The cranes at the docks as well as rail lines or truck lanes also have to be redesigned. Look for robotics and automation.
The ships do not stand alone in the big picture.
Sometimes ships do get too big or too fast for practicality.
The 33 knot SL 7’s were found to not be the right niche and were eventually turned over to the US Navy. Tankers got too big and came back down in size for practical reasons.
These ships have a practical lifetime of 25 years. Earlier demise if it doesn't work out.
To: tcrlaf
If it is going to port in Mexico they better account for 1 in 5 containers never making it from Mexico to the U.S, in other words hijacked.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:49:01 PM PST
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: wita
Since I am personally suffering from the largely unreported California Union dock workers, clerical and drivers strikes for higher pay for obsolete and inefficient positions, I don't care if they dock in Mexico!
$47 an hour plus benefits for data input clerks in a barcode environment?
360 short haul truckers can shut down commerce across the nation because they voted in the people who required them to upgrade their trucks 7 years ago, but suddenly demand an extension while holding up my companies freight?
No thanks!
BTW, with oil prices plummeting, it will be cheaper to fly it over next week!
And I hope the greedy union dockworkers, drivers and clerks enjoy their permanent unemployment!
Ship it to Mexico.
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posted on
12/08/2014 6:50:54 PM PST
by
sarasmom
( Extortion 17. Obama's revenge on the DOD for the killing of Osama Bin Ladin.)
To: cripplecreek
A ship that long would also stretch almost from Los Angeles to Catalina Island. Basically, a bridge with a bridge.
To: sarasmom
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posted on
12/08/2014 7:02:06 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: Two Kids' Dad
I would think a ship that large would cause a mini tsunami just moving thought the water.
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posted on
12/08/2014 7:04:56 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(You can't half ass conservatism.)
To: MV=PY
Well will make up songs about to sing around the oil barrel fires in the FEMA camps.
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posted on
12/08/2014 7:07:08 PM PST
by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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