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Hi:

I have a friend who engineered the very wide screen TV display for a tug
boat "flight simulator".  He told me that any kind of change to a large
ship, like an oil tanker, needs to be made miles in advance of when it's
needed, so the extremely high cost of the "flight simulator" was justified.

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke

Dan Allen wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 03:09 PM, Jared Sherman wrote:
>
>>  Give way? Simply not possible, when there is no one on the helm.
>> Perhaps I saw the one incident in a thousand, but it seemed routine
>> for them.
>
>
> I have heard that the largest tankers and container ships take many
> miles to stop.  I do not imagine that they turn very easily either, so
> perhaps this is why they do not watch where they are going: if they see
> a small boat directly in their path doing anything may be out of the
> realm of the possible.
>
> Dan
>
> Assignment: For extra credit do the "back of the envelope" estimate of
> a container ship, its weight, and its power and determine what its
> stopping distance actually is.
>
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