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The media in this article is frustrating. The lead of this story is the incredible size of these container ships, but no photos, and no parts of the video, show

by pslam 12y ago

The media in this article is frustrating. The lead of this story is the incredible size of these container ships, but no photos, and no parts of the video, show the ship side-by-side anything which gives us a sense of scale. It's all very well showing a diagram of the Empire State Building stood on its side, but I would have loved to see even a single photo or 1 second of video where it was moving slowly past a landmark. Or even a long-shot of the harbor as it came out of port. Nope. All artistic "through the porthole" or other strange angles which never capture the whole ship. Anyone got a resource which actually shows the ship in a setting which gives it some sense of scale, instead of, like this article, leaving all of that to the imagination?

minimax 12y ago
Maersk actually has a pretty solid instagram account where they post those kinds of pictures. http://instagram.com/maerskline http://instagram.com/maerskline
- mattmanser 12y ago
  Which lead me to this: http://www.worldslargestship.com/triple-e/ http://www.worldslargestship.com/triple-e/
- jdnier 12y ago
  Heh, heh. Lego minifigure comparison (although probably not a TripleE): http://instagram.com/p/q_yDmLiL1F/ http://instagram.com/p/q_yDmLiL1F/
ssmoot 12y ago
Those are 40' containers if that helps. So you could fit a couple large high-school football stadiums end to end and still have room for the stands and concessions. EDIT: Just looked it up. I was way off. Over 4 HS football stadiums (including stands) end to end. Just 8' shy of a quarter-mile in length. And about the height of a 4 story building.
vram22 12y ago
>Anyone got a resource which actually shows the ship in a setting which gives it some sense of scale, instead of, like this article, leaving all of that to the imagination? Not a direct answer, but: On a whim, I put the question "what is the size of a container ship" to Wolfram Alpha, but got a reply that only had the definition of a container ship, and a message "computation time exceeded." :-) Also googled for the same question; first few links were about the size of shipping containers instead, and there was also a link to the same NY Times articlethat this thread is about.
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by pslam 12y ago

minimax 12y ago

Maersk actually has a pretty solid instagram account where they post those kinds of pictures. http://instagram.com/maerskline http://instagram.com/maerskline

mattmanser 12y ago
Which lead me to this: http://www.worldslargestship.com/triple-e/ http://www.worldslargestship.com/triple-e/
jdnier 12y ago
Heh, heh. Lego minifigure comparison (although probably not a TripleE): http://instagram.com/p/q_yDmLiL1F/ http://instagram.com/p/q_yDmLiL1F/

ssmoot 12y ago

Those are 40' containers if that helps. So you could fit a couple large high-school football stadiums end to end and still have room for the stands and concessions. EDIT: Just looked it up. I was way off. Over 4 HS football stadiums (including stands) end to end. Just 8' shy of a quarter-mile in length. And about the height of a 4 story building.

vram22 12y ago

>Anyone got a resource which actually shows the ship in a setting which gives it some sense of scale, instead of, like this article, leaving all of that to the imagination? Not a direct answer, but: On a whim, I put the question "what is the size of a container ship" to Wolfram Alpha, but got a reply that only had the definition of a container ship, and a message "computation time exceeded." :-) Also googled for the same question; first few links were about the size of shipping containers instead, and there was also a link to the same NY Times articlethat this thread is about.

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