An Alternative to the Suez Canal?

Re:An Alternative to the Suez Canal? by jvanderbot on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:44PM (#26665146)

How many 9's does the suez canal have now? It was down for 6 days out of 151 years? That's 3 9's.

If we include the voluntary shutdown around 6-day war and the yom kippur war[1], we'rd down to 52,000 days, of which 6 were blocked by technical problems, resulting in 3 9's roughly.

Seems like something we'll go back to ignoring soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet

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Re:An Alternative to the Suez Canal? by devoutsalsa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:16PM (#26665488)

Wouldn’t that be like 95% uptime? (151 - 8) / 151 = 94.7-ish.

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Re:An Alternative to the Suez Canal? by kiseleon on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:22PM (#26665558)

151 years - 0.021 years / 151 years = ~99.98%

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Re:An Alternative to the Suez Canal? by devoutsalsa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @04:54PM (#26665891)

It was closed for 8 years!

"After Egypt closed the Suez canal at the beginning of the Six-Day War on 5 June 1967, the canal remained closed for precisely eight years, reopening on 5 June 1975." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Canal#Arab%E2%80%93Israel...

I first heard about it in RealLifeLore's "The 8-Year Long Worst Traffic Jam in History" => https://youtu.be/4DiXRCo7eBs

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Re:An Alternative to the Suez Canal? by sombremesa on Thursday April 01, 2021 @10:58PM (#26668664)

Yup, and during that war the trapped seamen came up with their own handmade stamps (accepted as valid postage) which are now collectibles!

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