http://gabrito.com/post/photos-of-the-container-ship-apl-panama-aground Anecdotes on Java, Ruby, Sysadmin, SEO, Design, and Management Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://gabrito.com/post/photos-of-the-container-ship-apl-panama-aground/comment-page-1#comment-149 Ross Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:09:33 +0000 http://gabrito.com/post/photos-of-the-container-ship-apl-panama-aground#comment-149 My martime lawyer friend Hans tells me that tankers are so huge, and thus have so much weight and momentum while moving, that there are times when they can be as far as a mile away (or more, I think) and know an accident is imminent. These boats are the modern equivalent of a Stegasaurus, whose body was supposedly so large that if a large object pinched its tail, it would have taken about 30 seconds to reach the brain... and another 30 seconds to move the tail. Keep us posted, Todd! My martime lawyer friend Hans tells me that tankers are so huge, and thus have so much weight and momentum while moving, that there are times when they can be as far as a mile away (or more, I think) and know an accident is imminent. These boats are the modern equivalent of a Stegasaurus, whose body was supposedly so large that if a large object pinched its tail, it would have taken about 30 seconds to reach the brain… and another 30 seconds to move the tail. Keep us posted, Todd!

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