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How does it work currently? So much redundancy that there's never an unfixable failure that would stop the ship?
by wlesieutre 10y ago
How does it work currently? So much redundancy that there's never an unfixable failure that would stop the ship?
- nradov 10y agoUnfixable failures are very rare in critical systems. Usually the crew is able to catch incipient failures and take preventative action, or else repair the failure at least well enough to get close to a port. Ships engineers are good at jury rigging temporary solutions. There are a few incidents every year where large merchant vessels lose power and drift onto rocks, or break apart and sink in a storm.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThere are about ten major shipwrecks annually -- call it one per month: http://www.outsideonline.com/1922111/monsterwellen http://www.outsideonline.com/1922111/monsterwellen I'd initially turned up that fact whilst considering the implications of nuclear propulsion for merchant shipping. I'm considering it not particularly attractive. https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c52ll/shipping_and_safety_the_nuclear_option/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c52ll/shippin...