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28th March 2021, 22:51 | #291 | |
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plus, the ship is balanced to begin with. so it stands to reason that simply alternating removals one side to the other will keep it balanced at each stage. the idea that one side is heavy with ballbearings and the other side light with toilet paper wouldn't have passed muster at the loading stage. |
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29th March 2021, 07:04 | #293 |
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does anyone know the WEIGHTS involved here? news articles are inconsistently saying it's 224,000 tonnes "empty" and "fully laden".
since it contains 20,000 containers each capable of holding 45-65 tonnes, i find it hard to believe the latter. and yet, i cannot find a single article citing the (estimated, even) "total weight". THIS note claims that the weight of the ship itself is minor: Code:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26587311 in which case, i suppose we're lucky it wasn't filled to the max. 1.3 million tonnes of ballbearings/gold bars/diving weights. imagine the problem 4x worse!! |
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Looks like they moved it ...
Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has said that the Ever Given container ship, which has been blocking the crucial waterway for nearly a week, was partially refloated and has been turned in the “right direction”. Code:
http://aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/29/ever-given-turned-80-percent-in-right-direction-live-news Rescue workers from the authority and the Dutch company Smit Salvage used tug boats to wrench the ship from the canal bank, Reuters news agency reported. Code:
http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-56559904 Some shippers had decided to reroute their cargoes around the Cape of Good Hope, adding about two weeks to journeys and extra fuel costs. Code:
http://reuters.com/article/us-egypt-suezcanal-ship/huge-ship-blocking-suez-canal-partially-refloated-more-work-needed-idUSKBN2BL0A3
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30th March 2021, 14:13 | #295 |
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Be sure to keep your Lego® in a safe place!
French police on trail of international gang of Lego looters Source: Code:
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Lego is a brand that encompassed many products or sets and is not normally pluralised: their products, however, are usually pluralised like this:
Lego bricks, Lego sets, etc. It's no that same as say Nike: most of their products come in pairs so to refer to ones trainers/sneakers as "my Nikes" would be OK.
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must be a british thing; in the US one def says "i got legos for christmas" and "wanna go up and play with my legos"?.
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http://brickfanatics.com/seth-meyers-settles-the-lego-vs-legos-debate-sort-of/ US talk show host Seth Meyers has weighed in on the debate over how to properly pluralise ‘LEGO’, and purists might not like what he has to say.It's the same way it's the only country that is still using Fahrenheit
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However things have not gone to plan... Biden's dog Major bites again at White House The White House dog Major has bitten again, just days after returning from training in Delaware following a similar incident earlier this month.Source: Code:
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