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It probably was a hell to debug after the first ship with such cargo capsized unexpectedly.
by dkarras 5y ago
It probably was a hell to debug after the first ship with such cargo capsized unexpectedly.
- lmilcin 5y agoNah, the problem is as old as sailing. Sometimes the cargo liquefies for a short period when shocked, then stops flowing. This would cause the ship to list as the cargo takes a new shape. Hard to debug is when the problem causes ships to be lost with all hands. Think in terms of early planes flying into cloud cover and reliably spiraling to crash.
- colinb 5y agosomething like this was a plot point in one of the Neal Stephenson wrist-breakers [0]. <elided plot spoilers> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle