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Ships are hundreds of thousands of tons in weight and the momentum acts as a force multiplier. Plus it hit the pylon dead center, which is the worst case scena
by xienze 3y ago
Ships are hundreds of thousands of tons in weight and the momentum acts as a force multiplier. Plus it hit the pylon dead center, which is the worst case scenario. It’s not terribly surprising.
I think there’s also an underlying expectation that any competent ship captain would at least be able to see that they’re on a collision course with the pylon well ahead of time and be able to compensate. Which obviously didn’t happen in this case.
- ponector 3y agoThere is another video where we can see two power outage occurred. Ship was uncontrollable but with enormous amount of inertia. I'm sure captain tried to do anything he can to avoid collision.
- TheHypnotist 3y agoThe trajectory of the ship seemed near perfect right up until just before the bridge where I suspect it experience it's mechanical issue.
- KineticLensman 3y agoInterestingly, a surprising number of ship-ship collisions occur due to an unnecessary last minute evasive-action manoeuvre between ships that weren't actually on a collision course in the first place. There's a whole section devoted to this in the outstanding book 'Normal Accidents' by Charles Perrow.