Trump Math is now a thing apparently...

Its amazing when you start to do research on events from as recent as 2011 how many dead links you hit. Just zero preservation. By the time I get back to 2001 I'd say 10% of links work, including in official news reports.

Reply worthy of a wall of laughter from journalists in the room

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Three Vessels Hit by Gunfire in Strait of Hormuz, Crews Safe At least three container ships were hit by gunfire in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, maritime security sources and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said.

Three Vessels Hit by Gunfire in Strait of Hormuz, Crews Safe

MSC Francesca
Epaminodas
Euphoria

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The German carrier cancelled about 120 daily flights and said it would drop unprofitable routes from Munich and Frankfurt until the end of the summer season. ft.trib.al/TwuG4PD

If anyone wants to try this again with the next MAGA bootlicker, first question:

“Did Kamala Harris lose the 2024 election?”

They will jump at the chance to say yes. These toads HAVE to.

Then the 2020 question.

Didn't say lethality for whom though did he 💀

Glad the strait is open and oil is sailing then...

From the show "don't do a sicario"?

I'm sorry what? He gave all students an A to avoid upsetting the Dean. Are you mental?

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

He's a year too late

a young boy is standing in front of a basketball hoop . ALT: a young boy is standing in front of a basketball hoop .

Ike to Churchill...

This is so dumb its typical.

No we won't see a return to pre-modern medicine days but er, for the vast majority of human history, armies died because of disease and not conflicts. See below for data on Crimean war deaths for example...

The Spanish Flu be like:

Oil Prices Don’t Reflect Scale of Supply Hit, Analysts Say Oil prices don’t fully reflect the largest supply disruption ever, after the Iran war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, some of the market’s top analysts said.

this is pretty interesting www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New not knew. Off to bed for me.

Brasilien will bis zu vier weitere Tamandaré-Fregatten kaufen Bei den heutigen Regierungskonsultationen haben Deutschland und Brasilien eine deutliche Stärkung ihrer Zusammenarbeit im Bereich der Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik vereinbart.

Brazil has signed a declaration of intent with Germany to acquire a second batch of up to four additional Tamandaré-class frigates. The first of class in the initial batch of four hulls commissions with the Brazilian Navy this month.
www.hartpunkt.de/brasilien-wi...

This is overly harsh, the system is fantastic, and compared to what was being used at the time, it was rightly hailed as revolutionary. But it does have downsides.

It was mentioned, I remember being taught about the risks, then we quickly moved on to how it boosted the global economy and how great Japan was.

Repair spreads aren't knew, but mobilising to VOOs is new and so modularity is becoming more important, even as the cables and so on get more demanding (bigger bend radius, heavier/more armoured)

The recent disruptions in Europe and Asia especially have brought home the risk, with most nations declaring it a Critical National Infrastructure. As such having dedicated repair is no longer a nice to have (a similar thing is happening with burial depth).

However where modularity is really taking off is in cable repair, because you don't want to have the kit mobilised 24/7. So storage on shore is important. Likewise to a less extent for inter-array (cables between wind turbines in a farm).

Repair contracts are now often baked into lay contracts

We've kind of settled on a design now with CLSs having large back deck spreads, and big carousels for holding cables (up to 12,000t plus per carousel). For those dedicated ships, nothings changed, the cost (~£25-40m) is such that shipping is a footnote, and the vessel is dedicated.

But the commercial demand at scale was really missing. Then you had the dot com boom, and the demand for cables took off. Engineers were then solving the actual 'How do we do this?' challenge. Big changes in cable laying vessels and operations theory.

Basically prior, you would just charter a vessel and sling stuff onboard, with modularity being an afterthought. Remember that the cable lay and subsea vehicle industry was really neglected until the internet took off. You had some transatlantic cables and military subsea installations

Its driven a bunch of offshore equipment to be redesigned to fit into ISO containers specifically to reduce storage and transportation costs. Obviously the larger stuff can't be avoided, but loads of cable lay systems and subsea vehicles are getting broken down to Hi Cubes and 40ft ISOs.

Ugh yeah, we've seen shipping rates fluctuate so much in recent times with work, esp out of gauge.

Combine that with the uncertain future of low carbon fuel options and everyone can see we're drifting closer to the edge of the waterfall with no one willing to make a decision on how to avoid it.