Timeline for How realistic would it be to have a human based colony surviving a “great flood” style event and living only on ships?
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| May 8, 2022 at 20:15 | history | edited | Trish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2022 at 17:32 | comment | added | Pelinore | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:31 | comment | added | Trish | @Pelinore then please show me pushing a heavy load truck an inch. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:27 | comment | added | Pelinore | When you have no land or rocks to hit, your steering doesn't need to be particularly fast responsive or accurate, it can be as sluggish as you like, most of the time you won't even bother, your concerns on that issue are unnecessary and exaggerated, you might have a small supply replenished by rendered fish and whale oil for emergencies but mostly you just wouldn't bother .. you just aren't thinking things through. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:23 | comment | added | Trish | @Pelinore The rudder of an Essex class carrier is in the same general area as the Nimtz: Each rudder of the Nimitz alone weighs 50 metric tons, and the Essex' is possibly more like 40 metric tons, counting that she only has a single one and that is a slight bt smaller as nimitz. Moving that is impossible without power steering - which the Essex already had. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:22 | comment | added | Pelinore | Emojis, OK, criticism valid, sure, particularly as a frame challenge, but all of yours is wrong and predicated on a lack of .. umm .. [winces] real understanding or considered thought in my opinion [small nervously apologetic smile] sorry, basically I'm challenging your challenge, that's allowed too. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:17 | history | edited | Trish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2022 at 17:13 | comment | added | Pelinore | No air! seriously? these are not spaceships they are ordinary seagoing ships they are surrounded by air . No steering? So what, the mechanics are there and can be rigged mechanically with plentiful gearing if need be, whales exist, render a few for oil to use as fuel if you must, they don't need anything on the ship to work as it did b4 they just need the hull to float, everything else they need can be retrofitted to work with what they've got | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:10 | comment | added | Trish | @Pelinore 1) Please stop the emojis, they come out as character garbage on my end. 2) Criticism of the setup is a valid part of an answer. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 17:02 | comment | added | Pelinore | Which is where self replicating nano-bots from the future come in but seriously, it doesn't matter how that happens because the OP tells us it does happen, it's not part of the question merely setting the scene for the question, the parameters within which he wants an answer, so just forget about it and move to the actual question would be my advice, just take that bit as read | |
| May 6, 2022 at 16:39 | comment | added | Trish | @Pelinore Bulldozing is possible, but not in the one year demanded. It takes a million years to use a million trucks to artificially erode the US. As for why fuel will kill them: nothing on those ships works without electricity. No steering, no air... you could support maybe a single family on the whole deck of the Bunker Hill if you farm there. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 11:18 | comment | added | Pelinore | "people will go extinct" Sure, but not straight away & not because the fuel runs out, it still floats, sails are possible, you can fish, fresh water is available by distillation, a tanker from the period provides deck space for at least a bit of agriculture what population it can support, if that's enough for maintenance, if not how long before it falls apart are all legitimate concerns . at a guess it should last several decades at least & potentially a hundred, maybe even hundreds, of years . and If they knew it would happen larger vessels than commonly in use then can be expected. | |
| May 6, 2022 at 10:46 | comment | added | Pelinore | what's not Newtonian physics about bulldozing all the land above sea level into deep ocean chasms? 🤗 | |
| May 6, 2022 at 10:44 | comment | added | Trish | @Pelinore The question specified "newtonian physics apply" which bans the premises, but the 3rd part is literally "it happened... and people will go extinct" | |
| May 6, 2022 at 10:39 | comment | added | Pelinore | The question wasn't 'would rising sea levels cause a landless earth', it was 'this has happened, can they survive on boats', besides, melting caps, though the most plausible, aren't the only option for rising sea levels, you could slice off all the mountain peaks and high land and dump it into ocean chasms instead | |
| May 6, 2022 at 9:51 | history | edited | Trish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 6, 2022 at 9:43 | history | answered | Trish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |