Is that ship still stuck?

Re:Is that ship still stuck? by thewarrior on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:17PM (#26586253)

Crazy idea : Can we roll it into the water by pulling it over high strength rollers of some sort ? It would be pretty cool to use the same technique that was use to build the pyramids.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by cricalix on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:25PM (#26586372)

Sane answer: No.

The ship is 400 metres / 0.25 of a mile long. With containers, it weighs anywhere up to 199 thousand tons. One does not simply attach a few hundred cables, put some rollers under it, and pull with all the tractors you can find in Egypt.

Also, it's already in the water. It's just turned sideways and buried the bulb (by the looks) into the canal wall.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by PeterisP on Friday March 26, 2021 @08:06AM (#26591063)

Since the sides of the channel are much more shallow than the middle, it's not floating in the water as both ends of the ship are stuck on the bottom.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by imtringued on Friday March 26, 2021 @09:16AM (#26591734)

Is it possible to weld a large steel wire onto the ship and use some sort of explosive to pull it out of the sand?

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by clashmoore on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:40PM (#26587077)

I’m thinking a complex series of pulleys and chains set up and attached to the Great Pyramids of Giza and then like a tooth tied to a string and door - attach the chains to some of Elon’s rockets and pull that ship loose.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by a9h74j on Friday March 26, 2021 @03:43AM (#26589664)

At the level of [un]reality in many of the comments under OP, actually the Great Pyramids were built off-site and then dragged to their present locations.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by Cthulhu_ on Friday March 26, 2021 @04:52AM (#26590012)

> It would be pretty cool to use the same technique that was use to build the pyramids.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but... it was aliens.

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by blhack on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:21PM (#26586322)

Okay hear me out:

Somebody call Elon. Get the TBMs, and set them to work building a tunnel under the ship.

Now fill the tunnel with giant rubber bladders.

Call the Saudis and have them start shipping over helium. Fill the bladders with helium.

Okay, keep the saudis around and get them to bring over one of the high pressure water drilling rigs that they use for oil. Start digging out the sand above the bladders, and float them up to be UNDER the ship.

Okay now call the Dutch. Get them to bring over some MASSIVE water pumps and some damming equipment. The two guys on excavators can help. Dam up the canal on both sides of the ship, and pump out all the water.

The bladders become rollers. Roll that ship back into the middle of the canal.

Okay now repump the canal, and float the ship away. Bam. Done!

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by testaoijoiaj on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:40PM (#26586531)

> Get them to bring over some MASSIVE water pumps and some damming equipment.

If you had this, then I would damn each side and pump water INTO that space. Raise water level, ship frees. Boom

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Re:Is that ship still stuck? by a9h74j on Friday March 26, 2021 @03:48AM (#26589686)

Chicago1992 is standing by ready to donate air mattresses.

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