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If it were that terrifying, someone would build a second channel or other infrastructure to move containers between both seas.
by closedloop129 4y ago
If it were that terrifying, someone would build a second channel or other infrastructure to move containers between both seas.
- Apocryphon 4y agoOr a vehicle that could airlift it out of the canal!
- EarlKing 4y agoSir, may I humbly suggest that you vastly underestimate the weight of a fully loaded freighter? There's a reason airships do not, have not, and probably will not ever replace ocean-going vessels... nor will helicopters or cargo planes.
- Apocryphon 4y agoIt was made in jest, because while building a second channel is potentially feasible (is it even geographically possible in that region?), it seems as fanciful as building a flying freighter-lifter.
- _moof 4y agoThe heaviest aircraft ever built, the AN-225, had a max takeoff weight of 1.4 million pounds. The cargo alone on a container ship is hundreds of millions of pounds.
- aperson_hello 4y agoNature did that for us...it's called the Cape of Good Hope! It just takes a lot longer...