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Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li
by danaos 6y ago
Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ships https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...
- noarchy 6y ago>Uhhh it's in Wikipedia's "largest container ships" list! Off-topic, but does anyone else find it odd to find fillers like "umm" and "uhh" to be typed out on sites like HN or reddit?
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- stransky 6y agoUmmmm...no?
- reducesuffering 6y agoNo it contributes to more natural conversation, illustrating the commenter’s thought process.
- noarchy 6y agoI didn’t think that “natural” conversation was an actual goal on HN. You see this particularly in the way that humour (among other things) is often downvoted and discouraged.
- angry_octet 6y agoI upvote humour for this reason, and down vote posts that are anti-fun. Believing all writing should be dull is a characteristic of people who can't write well.
- croes 6y agoShould the process not be completed before you hit "submit". There is no need to simulate a live conversation.
- userbinator 6y ago...and as the article says, "Furthermore, some of the world's main waterways such as the Suez Canal and Singapore Strait also restrict the maximum dimensions of a ship that can pass through them.", which explains why the list consists of large fleets of ships all almost exactly the same size.
- codewench 6y agoMuch like Panamax being the largest ship size which can traverse the Panama canal, there's a corresponding Suezmax[1]. Sort of like the old story of the Space Shuttle's SRB size being dictated by old Roman road design, it's interesting how modern design is influenced by historical limitations we might not consider.
- nindalf 6y agoNot sure if that’s true. https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4064/how-fair-is-the-claim-that-shuttle-boosters-diameter-is-dictated-by-the-railroad https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4064/how-fair-is-t...
- m4rtink 6y agoThe Shuttle SRB design still was dictated at least in part by the segments being transported by rail - each individual segment could be only as heavy, wide and long as the cobined stretch of railway from the factory would allow. It influences other rockets as well - for example the Proton: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family) The long thin tanks you see mounted on the first stage are not drop tanks or additional boosters, its the tanks holding the first stage fuel, with the central core holding all the oxidzer. Thats because the core stage is limitted in width by what you can ship to Bayokonur by rail, especialy IIRC one specific rail tunnel on the route. So they ship the core stage and the additional fuel tanks on separate rail cars and then bolt them in place on the cosmodrome. In similar manner Falcon 9 is limitted to 3.9 m of width as that is the maximum you can ship over the US highway network without special care. If you want to go bigger, you need special aircraft and barges, or build the thing in place like it is currently being done with the SpaceX Starhip.
- GhostVII 6y agoIn 2016, Prokopowicz and Berg-Andreassen defined a container ship with a capacity of 10,000 to 20,000 TEU as a Very Large Container Ship (VLCS), while that with a capacity greater than 20,000 TEU as an Ultra Large Container Ship (ULCS) They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.
- aasasd 6y agoJust call Capcom. “Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”. Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
- GekkePrutser 6y agoAlmost like a Samsung phone. Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
- ornornor 6y agoYou forgot “Pro”, which is what makes a variant the bigger one.
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- denysvitali 6y agoI'm surprised Docker is not on that list
- Shivetya 6y agoTrue, but it is hard to get the scale of some ships until a real world item people are familiar with is close enough for a comparison. I remember driving up to one of the battleship memorials as a child and it just seemed like this big gray mountain at the end of the street.
- ggregoire 6y agoAnyone knows why all those Korean, Swiss and Taiwanese ships are registered in Panama instead of their own country?
- martin_a 6y agoJust another tax evasion scheme.
- samizdis 6y agoIt's a system called registering a ship under a "flag of convenience" [1]. Covers lots of questionable business practices, from employment conditions/health and safety, to tax etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience Edited to add this (which I did not know, but think it interesting) from the Wikipedia article: The modern practice of ships being registered in a foreign country [ie, a flag of convenience] began in the 1920s in the United States when shipowners seeking to serve alcohol to passengers during Prohibition registered their ships in Panama. Owners soon began to perceive advantages in terms of avoiding increased regulations and rising labor costs and continued to register their ships in Panama even after Prohibition ended.