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The Suez Canal took 10 years to build, with > 30,000 people working on it at any given time and over 1.5M total laborers, thousands of whom died. I don't think
by nostrademons 6y ago
The Suez Canal took 10 years to build, with > 30,000 people working on it at any given time and over 1.5M total laborers, thousands of whom died.
I don't think we want to be waiting for 10 years. Cheaper to blow up the ship and its cargo than to re-build a whole new canal.
- TylerE 6y agoBlowing it up isn't really a solution either, that still leaves the canal blocked, as it was for 8 years after the 6 day war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
- nostrademons 6y agoI was being semi-facetious, but now I see that a bunch of people seem to be suggesting that in all seriousness. Poe's Law strikes again.
- ReflectedImage 6y agoActually with a well placed nuclear warhead placed directly under the ship, it could be thrown out of the canal and into the nearby desert clearing the canal route /s
- tomatotomato37 6y agoFun fact: the ship is larger than the fireball of a peacekeeper warhead would be (~320 meters)
- playerm1 6y agoMay want to use two of those bad boys then
- lazide 6y agoThose were what, 300kiloton’s ish? So if we go to 1+ megaton we’d be good. Seems reasonable if we go up to 3-4 megatons, maybe we’d even end up with a big enough crater one of these ships could pull a three point turn next time?
- aww_dang 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare >Proposed uses for nuclear explosives under Project Plowshare included widening the Panama Canal, constructing a new sea-level waterway through Nicaragua nicknamed the Pan-Atomic Canal, cutting paths through mountainous areas for highways, and connecting inland river systems.
- arethuza 6y agoA better way would be to explode one medium sized nuke under the ship, wait a few seconds then explode another and then start exploding nukes behind it until it's going fast enough. Project Orion did contemplate a 400m diameter ship weighing 8 million tons.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
- lazide 6y agoI like the way you think! Saving the global economy through nuclear propulsion of kiloton scale commercial shipping. It could finally get us to Mars?
- gpvos 6y agoOkay, something like the Tsar Bomba then? /s
- concordDance 6y agoI suspect any nuke smaller than the Tsar Bomb would leave top large pieces in the way.
- Scarblac 6y agoThink outside the box some more. With enough nuclear warheads, trade between Asia and Europe can be made completely irrelevant!