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xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cruise ship or bust.

And it's just a drawing but I'm trying to realize it in actual size. Cruise ships are huge, pushing 250 or so feet out of the water. That's considered a high-rise in the construction world.

Now I look at that loopdy-lopp and say hey, that boat could fit. I'm ignoring all the other physics and shit and just Matchbox car'g that boat through that loop. That makes that loop like, what, 1000 feet? And that is ignoring the structure beneath the surface, and also the other dimensions of this, and the sheer velocity and volume of water.

So I'm gonna call this one a hard maybe. Perhaps if the world could set aside it's differences, we could do a sort of space race, but instead a ship flip, or a boat float, or some other rhyme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

sounds like an idea for a "what if" scenario. I know just the author to pitch this to...