Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

[French Rage]

I mean is he even president?! https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/stat...84198789267467

[French Rage]

IINM the Panama Canal is too narrow for some modern ships.

Isn't there a project underway to widen the Panama Canal or is that already finished?

[French Rage]

Almost as big of a shutdown as the canal: https://twitter.com/krisreports/stat...58712012918784

I hear they are sacred in Canada and you're not allowed to kill them.

[ScoobyDoo]

I mean is he even president?! https://twitter.com/BenjySarlin/stat...84198789267467

The best response in there: "Have they tried raking the floor of the river? I hear thats a thing..."

[rufus]

Almost as big of a shutdown as the canal: https://twitter.com/krisreports/stat...58712012918784

I hear they are sacred in Canada and you're not allowed to kill them.

That's a helluva gig, sit there all day watching the beaver.

[aparch]

Also from the thread. The worldwide experts on heavy lifts at sea:

I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...

[Kepler]

I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...

There's no way they can scuttle that ship there, though -- that will permanently shut down the canal (indeed it's in five different powers' order of battle for the first fifteen minutes of a regional war to "incapacitate" (military doctrine for "blow the sh-t out of") whoever loses the game of musical chairs when the balloon goes up.

Also: we need a picture book about that backhoe. "The Little Engine That Was Homeschooled And So Never Studied Physics."

[dxmnkd316]

I saw on another Twitter thread that the Ever Given has a bulbous nose to it and our plucky little excavator is parked on top of it...

https://twitter.com/imp_navigator/st...41789085306880



Salvaging/scrapping the ship is the last thing they probably want to do for a boat built in 2018, but it has to certainly be on the table of options...

Wait, what? there's literally zero chance of that. Who's saying they're talking about scrapping it? That would take months or years.

[LynahFan]

Wait, what? there's literally zero chance of that. Who's saying they're talking about scrapping it? That would take months or years.

Yeah. I like ya, aparch, but, well, we all serve up a stinker occasionally....

[dxmnkd316]

Here's the problem. Even if they focus on the nose, it doesn't really matter. That's not what's preventing this ship from moving. They can dig that out with the little-excavator-that-could, but they still have the problem that at 15m of draft, you're talking 60 ****ing meters of that boat that is currently grounded. Imagine trying to drag an 18- to 20-story building across the ground. They're going to need a hell of a lot of equipment and very careful planning to make sure they don't tip the MFer as they dig.

There's a reason they've already scrambled the world's experts on maritime excavation. This isn't just digging the nose out, it's going to be carving out 200 feet of ship. And 200 ft is if it had hit exactly perpendicular to the shore.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

There's no way they can scuttle that ship there, though -- that will permanently shut down the canal (indeed it's in five different powers' order of battle for the first fifteen minutes of a regional war to "incapacitate" (military doctrine for "blow the sh-t out of") whoever loses the game of musical chairs when the balloon goes up.

Also: we need a picture book about that backhoe. "The Little Engine That Was Homeschooled And So Never Studied Physics."

"Don't worry guys...I got this."

[dxmnkd316]

It's actually more complicated than that even. They also ahve to be careful so they don't crack the ship in half with all that weight.

https://youtu.be/uw7I46EynUo?t=75

[aparch]

Jesus, I said it was possibly a last option. :P

[rufus]

Are there like, heavy duty industrial strength airbags that they could position around the hull and inflate, sort of just lift it off the sandbar? or at least, lighten its footprint enough that the tugs can pull it away?

[French Rage]

Time to bring back the Silk Road. Uzbekistan's moment in the sun!