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qbasic_forever on March 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is that ship still stuck?

You know there's probably someone doing the cost-benefit analysis right now to see if just digging a new canal channel around the ship would be faster and cheaper than removing it.

_etyf on March 25, 2021 [–]

Why dig when you can blast?

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

mark_mart on March 26, 2021 | [–]

I see you like to blast things hah. That canal was built in 10 years.

nullsense on March 26, 2021 | | [–]

Peter Thiel would ask "ok, but how would build it in 6 months?"

205guy on March 26, 2021 | | [–]

The canal expansion in 2014 was actually completed in one year:

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

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