World's largest cruise ship, "Icon of the Seas," which includes the largest swimming pool at sea and an "Ultimate Family Townhouse" costing $100,000 per week, sets sail on its first voyage

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Well on our way toward the Axiom.

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some people really like to show off, especially when they have an audience of 7000 other suckers on board with them.

(its a house after all, not a cabin)

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It is left as a problem for the student to calculate the blast radius of the LNG tanks detonating in a BLEVE. Assume pi=22/7 and the moon is 384,400km away.

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Every “improvement” the cruise industry makes to its offerings makes it less likely I’ll ever set foot on one of these floating petri dishes.

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That’s an expensive Las Vegas trip.

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Thats It Martin Short GIF by PBS SoCal

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Couldn’t they just repurpose a container ship?

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Take a cruise on the Appocalypso!

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@NukeML blast radius of the LNG tanks detonating in a BLEVE

Bother, I can only find pictures of the tanks and no information on capacity. From the photo, it looks like there’s a lot of insulation there and it’s hard to see the actual size. Probably 4 or 6 rail cars’ worth per tank, times two. Installed horizontally too (although this might be the only time where that’s a good idea).

I kind of regretted not having joined Prof. Birk’s BLEVE lab when I was a grad student in his department (they were clearly having a lot more fun.) Had I gone down that road, I’d have had the answer to your question handy. :grin:

Oooh… so your idea is to cross Carribean cruising with tiny houses built from shipping containers! Genius… :grin:

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Maybe they will discover an inhabited island where the indigenous population have a religion based around the rules of association football.

(Based on the 1923 Raith Rovers shipwreck)

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Beat me to it!

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:musical_note: Come aboard
COVID’s expecting you… :musical_note:

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All the fun of being on a cruise ship, plus being in your own exclusive McMansion so you don’t have to mix with the Lesser Folks.

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Goodness. Youve managed to combine the hatred if cruise ships with the impracticallity of container homes in one post. Bravo!

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Glad to see the crypto angle. I was thinking either that, or runs out of fuel mid-cruise due to clandestine bitcoin mining operating.

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and the common folks have their fun on RickMycrofts apocalypso. /s

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Pirates with Priapism

One of the songs expurgated from Gilbert and Sullivan’s works

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Why do you think the rich have been spending the last century driving icebergs to near extinction?

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Homes? No, just raw containers for that Human Occupied Landfill experience.

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Prototype for Space Ark “B”

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Indeed, COVID or norovirus is where my money is. :roll_eyes:

Though I wish them all a pleasant, safe voyage, I have my doubts.

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