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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by fennecfoxen on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:15PM (#11789078)
According to the Internets, which are never wrong, the largest ship ever was this one:

http://maritime-connector.com/worlds-largest-ships/

How do you think this compares with a typical land-based Olympic venue? What other challenges make this idea absurd and ridiculous?

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by semi-extrinsic on Friday May 27, 2016 @05:49PM (#11789297)
Shell's new Prelude FLNG vessel is even bigger [1], if you call that a ship. It's about five football fields in area IIRC. So still absolutely tiny compared to anything you could host the olympics on.

Fun story: I was talking to some Shell people a few years back, about the potential troubles with LNG sloshing in process equipment due to waves. I asked them, why not just make the ship big enough that waves don't affect it as much? They looked at me very strangely for a few seconds before explaining just how big it already is.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10...

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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by foota on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:40PM (#11789579)
Do you know why they don't make the ship more square? Seems like that would help fight tipping due to sloshing (or any other reason...)
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Re:Experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because o... by tormeh on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:26PM (#11790026)
Water resistance. Same reason as planes aren't intended to fly sideways.
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