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

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LynahFan said:
Recalls to mind one of my favorite mind-blowing stats from CERN: at full energy, the beam of protons circulating inside the LHC (rest mass less than a billionth of a pound) has as much kinetic energy as a typical TGV train (France's 350 km/hr high speed rail).
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That's amazing and hilarious.

I'm actually curious now how fast a "normal" train would have to go.

Ok, super quick math:
V = (220k tons / 5k tons * (13.5 knots)^2) ^ 0.5 = 103 mph

Initially I forgot to include the 13.5^2 inside the square root and laughed very hard at the answer until I realized where I went wrong.

Anyways, imagine a fully loaded train at 103 mph running into the side of a mountain. That's the energy here.
 
Jimjamesak said:
On the plus side, this could mean more business for the air cargo carriers. :-)
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Unlikely. How much cargo does a widebody cargo jet hold? You're paying for speed not efficiency ;-)

In scrolling through the reactions to this on twitter, I found myself digging into Ocean Logistics Twitter. Sounds like a couple of european companies were already exploring the cost and time to go around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the fees through the Suez. Plus you don't have to go through the Arabian Sea or the Gulf of Aden. Seven transits in the last month alone. I know that's a tiny, tiny fraction, but it means they're trying it and that means someone has done the math.



Also, holy shit, they got the Maersk Denver out of the canal. That was the ship that was immediately behind the Ever Given. They somehow turned a 300-m vessel around. Crazy.
 
Kepler said:
IINM the Panama Canal is too narrow for some modern ships.
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Ships will be as large as can safely traverse the most time and cost-efficient waterways.

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No, they're not stuck. They're transiting the locks in the Panama Canal.

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I was about to say Panamax is a thing.

Also, the Suez is regulated by the Egyptians. They kinda fought a war about it.
 
Jimjamesak said:
With the Canadians, who weren’t even fully independent then, mediating.

The Suez Crisis is a weird what the fuck moment in history.
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My foreign policy professor, Walter LaFeber (who was wonderful as well as brilliant) said that Europe ran the world from 20 May 1498 (the day da Gama landed in India) to 30 Oct 1956, the day Israel told John Foster Dulles that the UK and France would back them in military action action against the US if we interceded to end their invasion, and Ike called their bluff and told the UK and France GFY.

It was a good run. 5x as long as our dominance is going to last.
 
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