It influences other rockets as well - for example the Proton:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family)
The long thin tanks you see mounted on the first stage are not drop tanks or additional boosters, its the tanks holding the first stage fuel, with the central core holding all the oxidzer.
Thats because the core stage is limitted in width by what you can ship to Bayokonur by rail, especialy IIRC one specific rail tunnel on the route. So they ship the core stage and the additional fuel tanks on separate rail cars and then bolt them in place on the cosmodrome.
In similar manner Falcon 9 is limitted to 3.9 m of width as that is the maximum you can ship over the US highway network without special care.
If you want to go bigger, you need special aircraft and barges, or build the thing in place like it is currently being done with the SpaceX Starhip.
They are gonna run out of larger adjectives pretty soon.
“Super Container Ship II' Hyper Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition HD Remix”.
Btw, there's a similar conundrum with large telescope projects: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26333391
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit#ULSI,_WSI,_...
Large container ship 20 Ultra Plus 5G Fan edition
Apple's 12 Pro Max, though...
I'm all for Hella Container Ship
Ship sizes can just reuse that replacing “graphics array” with “container ship” e.g. Quad Size Extended Container Ship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco...
I remember driving up to one of the battleship memorials as a child and it just seemed like this big gray mountain at the end of the street.
Covers lots of questionable business practices, from employment conditions/health and safety, to tax etc.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
Edited to add this (which I did not know, but think it interesting) from the Wikipedia article:
The modern practice of ships being registered in a foreign country [ie, a flag of convenience] began in the 1920s in the United States when shipowners seeking to serve alcohol to passengers during Prohibition registered their ships in Panama. Owners soon began to perceive advantages in terms of avoiding increased regulations and rising labor costs and continued to register their ships in Panama even after Prohibition ended.
Off-topic, but does anyone else find it odd to find fillers like "umm" and "uhh" to be typed out on sites like HN or reddit?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_container_ship...