I liked 2021 better when the boat was stuck.
I mean, yeah, it dinged 10% of world trade and meant that ships had to sail all the way around Africa, where they died of scurvy and pirates...BUT it was in itself a monument to GREATNESS. It was a stunning display of incompetence that only comes along once or twice in any given lifetime. It was the "I SHOT MARVIN IN THE FACE" of the nautical world. And perfection is perfection, even when you're talking about incompetence.
It was, as a friend put it, the polar opposite of the Apollo program.
And it wasn't just incompetence on the part of the ship's captain. At some point, everyone decided that there should be two canals North of Bitter Lake (the midpoint) but just one to the South. So they did 150% of the work required for a single failure point, and still got the failure point. Add to that all the people who tried to dig it out with a backhoe.
Then some schmuck comes along and says "Wait for high tide" and they float the damned thing.
I would consider it a personal favor if they went back and got stuck again.
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Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 01, 2021, 05:24:02 PM
It was, as a friend put it, the polar opposite of the Apollo program.
:lulz: :lulz:
We choose to get the boat stuck in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are hard, but because they are easy
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(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/John_F._Kennedy_speaks_at_Rice_University.jpg)
Quote from: Cramulus on April 04, 2021, 12:58:40 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on April 01, 2021, 05:24:02 PM
It was, as a friend put it, the polar opposite of the Apollo program.
:lulz: :lulz:
We choose to get the boat stuck in this decade and do the other things,
not because they are hard, but because they are easy
/
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/John_F._Kennedy_speaks_at_Rice_University.jpg)
:lulz: