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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by whalesalad on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:30AM (#26620114)
There’s been like 2 dudes out there with an excavator for a week. Absolutely nothing about this has made any sense. Based on the amount of revenue lost due to this blockage you’d think every military on the earth would have descended there.
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by spyder on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:03AM (#26620349)
It's not just 2 dude:

https://youtu.be/xLh1676KRaE?t=20

another interesting view:

https://images0.persgroep.net/rcs/GXjmBPgKzxDcYYksztfQHjNhNl...

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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by jacquesm on Monday March 29, 2021 @07:35AM (#26620138)
That's just that first image. Meanwhile they've been going at it day and night with 6 long boom excavators at the same time.
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by djxfade on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:03AM (#26620342)
At this point, I wonder if it economically would cost less to just destroy the vessel
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by avianlyric on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:50AM (#26620775)
Kurzgesagt tweeted about this (specifically using a nuke to remove the vessel). It's surprising just how big a nuke you would need to remove such a large vessel.

https://twitter.com/Kurz_Gesagt/status/1375607865721958403?s...

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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by helloguillecl on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:41AM (#26620688)
I fail to understand why so many people are proposing this alternative as if blowing up tonnes of cargo in the water, surroundings and air would be fine from an environmental point of view.
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by Symbiote on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:55AM (#26620824)
The Hollywood effect.

All crises, worldwide, are eventually solved by the American military blowing shit up.

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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by helloguillecl on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:59AM (#26620868)
Also: No laws governing other countries.
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by SketchySeaBeast on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:15AM (#26621908)
Or even just filling the canal with debris.
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by tallanvor on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:07AM (#26620377)
And spread debris throughout the canal, causing more delays as they try to clean that up?
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Re:Giant Ship Is Moved To and Fro to Break Suction: Suez Update by rectang on Monday March 29, 2021 @09:42AM (#26621390)
Because that worked so well for Florence, Oregon's exploding whale...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34

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