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Here on NSG we ask serious questions like: what is the perfect theme song?

1) Darude - Sandstorm
16
14%
2) Madness - Nightboat to Cairo
7
6%
3) Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle With You
9
8%
4) The Pirates of the Caribbean Theme Song (May or may not include kazoo or flute versions)
51
46%
5) Something with a ukele
4
4%
6) Benny Hill Theme
5
4%
7) Hasselhoff Option
3
3%
8) NO MUSIC, THIS IS NOT FUNNY GUUUYSSS
6
5%
9) I have a perfect suggestion; something else!
11
10%
 
Total votes : 112

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Postby Adamede » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:23 pm

Immortan Khan wrote:
Adamede wrote:Maybe we should move away from a “just in time system.

Also Iirc this isn’t the first time some hung like this has happened.

The JIT system allows for prices on materials and consumer goods to be reduced and minimizing the need to create even larger storage spaces.

And it rests on a needle point.

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Postby Mestovakia » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:24 pm

The Ship has at minimum 3000 containers on board.
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Postby Punished UMN » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:26 pm

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Punished UMN wrote:Unrelated but I've actually had nightmares about geopolitics, that international relations degree got me actin strange.

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Postby The Two Jerseys » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:27 pm

I hope for the helmsman's sake that it was a mechanical failure that caused it, because that's just inexcusable.
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Postby Immortan Khan » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:29 pm

I wonder who the captain of the Ever Given is.
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Postby Neanderthaland » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:29 pm

The Two Jerseys wrote:I hope for the helmsman's sake that it was a mechanical failure that caused it, because that's just inexcusable.

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Postby Heloin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:30 pm

Immortan Khan wrote:I wonder who the captain of the Ever Given is.

The Sea Captain.

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Postby Punished UMN » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:32 pm

Immortan Khan wrote:I wonder who the captain of the Ever Given is.

The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the skipper was brave and sure.
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Postby Major-Tom » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:40 pm

Oopsie woopsie a ship is stucky wucky.

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Postby Immortan Khan » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:40 pm

Punished UMN wrote:
Immortan Khan wrote:I wonder who the captain of the Ever Given is.

The mate was a mighty sailin' man, the skipper was brave and sure.

Gilligan's Island > Lost
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Postby Unstoppable Empire of Doom » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:42 pm

Thankfully they just widened and added an adjacent canal.

The Suez and Panama are vital to world shipping. Corporations need to invest in these nations to continue expanding them.
Whoever said "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink" has clearly never drown a horse.

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Postby Heloin » Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:50 pm

Unstoppable Empire of Doom wrote:Thankfully they just widened and added an adjacent canal.

The Suez and Panama are vital to world shipping. Corporations need to invest in these nations to continue expanding them.

That's not the part the Ever Given is stuck in. There is no adjacent canal.

Cross checking with Google maps there is a Fresh Food Market called مجزر دواجن زهرة النوبة right next to the ship with 5 stars on google. So if the crew is hungry they can grab themselves something to eat while waiting.
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Postby Eahland » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:14 pm

I'm just wondering at what point you say, "Yeah, this is going to take too long... screw it, we're just gonna go around Africa."
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Postby Immortan Khan » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:36 pm

Adamede wrote:
Immortan Khan wrote:The JIT system allows for prices on materials and consumer goods to be reduced and minimizing the need to create even larger storage spaces.

And it rests on a needle point.

That is true which is why there are numerous proposals on how to broaden the number of alternative routes so that it is less vulnerable.
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Postby Immortan Khan » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:39 pm


Apparently it is wedged into the walls of the canal on both ends.
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Postby Washington Resistance Army » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:20 am

Well, how many billions of dollars has this costed I wonder?
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Postby The Archregimancy » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:41 am

Galloism wrote:How do we even fix that? Serious question. That thing is so big and so heavy how do we unstick it?


As an archaeologist who has worked in Egypt, I can give this a serious answer.

Egyptians have been moving heavy objects down narrow bodies of water for millennia, and in this case will likely use a system similar to that used for building the pyramids: hyper-dimensional space alien portals, like the one in the centre of the Great Pyramid.

Now, this will require a certain level of calibration of the hyper-dimensional post-equationary vibrations via a balancing of the relevant transfinite ordinals and transfinite cardinals; the portals were never meant to be portable, after all, so we may need to build a new one from scratch (which, let's face it, would be easier than rebuilding the Great Pyramid block by block over the Suez Canal). All the same, I think it should be achievable so long as the Greys, the Reptoids, and the hyper-dimensional Sumerians all lend a hand.

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Postby The Blaatschapen » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:58 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
Galloism wrote:How do we even fix that? Serious question. That thing is so big and so heavy how do we unstick it?


As an archaeologist who has worked in Egypt, I can give this a serious answer.

Egyptians have been moving heavy objects down narrow bodies of water for millennia, and in this case will likely use a system similar to that used for building the pyramids: hyper-dimensional space alien portals, like the one in the centre of the Great Pyramid.

Now, this will require a certain level of calibration of the hyper-dimensional post-equationary vibrations via a balancing of the relevant transfinite ordinals and transfinite cardinals; the portals were never meant to be portable, after all, so we may need to build a new one from scratch (which, let's face it, would be easier than rebuilding the Great Pyramid block by block over the Suez Canal). All the same, I think it should be achievable so long as the Greys, the Reptoids, and the hyper-dimensional Sumerians all lend a hand.

No need to thank me; happy to help.


The modern Dutch are of course doing silly mundane boring stuff like using science for salvaging, dredging, buoying and water management in general.

If it stays stuck long enough, they might get some of them to help out against a premium price.

Unless Jan de Nul snags the contract. Then it will the Flemish.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:03 am

I suppose having a a fuck ton of men pull it to the tune of song of the volga boatmen is out of the question?
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He turned himself into a blockade.

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Postby The New California Republic » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:48 am

Use a coat hanger to clear the blockage.

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Postby Ethel mermania » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:49 am

The Archregimancy wrote:
Galloism wrote:How do we even fix that? Serious question. That thing is so big and so heavy how do we unstick it?


As an archaeologist who has worked in Egypt, I can give this a serious answer.

Egyptians have been moving heavy objects down narrow bodies of water for millennia, and in this case will likely use a system similar to that used for building the pyramids: hyper-dimensional space alien portals, like the one in the centre of the Great Pyramid.

Now, this will require a certain level of calibration of the hyper-dimensional post-equationary vibrations via a balancing of the relevant transfinite ordinals and transfinite cardinals; the portals were never meant to be portable, after all, so we may need to build a new one from scratch (which, let's face it, would be easier than rebuilding the Great Pyramid block by block over the Suez Canal). All the same, I think it should be achievable so long as the Greys, the Reptoids, and the hyper-dimensional Sumerians all lend a hand.

No need to thank me; happy to help.

Maybe you can go and open a tomb where the ancient curse is flooding the nile, you know, instead of unleashing a world wide pandemic
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Postby The Two Jerseys » Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:55 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
The Archregimancy wrote:
As an archaeologist who has worked in Egypt, I can give this a serious answer.

Egyptians have been moving heavy objects down narrow bodies of water for millennia, and in this case will likely use a system similar to that used for building the pyramids: hyper-dimensional space alien portals, like the one in the centre of the Great Pyramid.

Now, this will require a certain level of calibration of the hyper-dimensional post-equationary vibrations via a balancing of the relevant transfinite ordinals and transfinite cardinals; the portals were never meant to be portable, after all, so we may need to build a new one from scratch (which, let's face it, would be easier than rebuilding the Great Pyramid block by block over the Suez Canal). All the same, I think it should be achievable so long as the Greys, the Reptoids, and the hyper-dimensional Sumerians all lend a hand.

No need to thank me; happy to help.

Maybe you can go and open a tomb where the ancient curse is flooding the nile, you know, instead of unleashing a world wide pandemic

Ironically, that tomb is now somewhere under Lase Nasser.
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Postby Thermodolia » Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:05 am

Galloism wrote:How do we even fix that? Serious question. That thing is so big and so heavy how do we unstick it?

Well I have some C4 and some TNT, also got some SEMTEX too
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