I’m busy today. Like really busy. My deadlines are all Monday, but this weekend it booked. I suppose I could skip the Broncos game, but who are we kidding.
How Does It Float?
I’ll bet money there is at least one episode of one of those “how things work” TV shows out there about how a giant cruise ship ends up floating on the water.
I understand the basics of buoyancy and how things float, but cruise ships are just ridiculous. How much ship is under water to allow all of this pointing out of the top of the ocean to float without tipping over?
I mean, it looks like it would fall over on land. How does it stay upright with waves pushing it up and down?
There is no point to this post other than my brain won’t let it go and I have stuff to do.
Did I mention I am super busy today?
Put It Somewhere Else To Get It Out of Your Brain
One thing that has come from years of introspection and pondering my less than ideal brain and how it works, is that I have a set of mental tips and tricks to deal with ADHD and everything else.
As a writer my mind flows with articles, blog posts, pithy tweets, amazing scenes from novels that rattle around in my head without a beginning, middle or end, and poems that would shake the world. Most of the time these are too fleeting to ever flow from my fingers to keyboard, or from the ink to the pages of my Rocketbook, but sometimes these ideas rattle around, and won’t go away. They just sit there insisting I give them their due.
For a write, their due is a spot in my writings, published somewhere, anywhere so that they can go and live there unread, or viral, is irrelevant. As long as the idea gets a spot, gets some of my thought, and the physical transformation of travelling out of the mystery of what is the human brain and where exactly to thoughts occur, to the better known pathway of physical nerves and fingers and out the keyboard.
Just converting the rattling thought from electrical brain energy to physical form allows my mind to call down about it. I bet there is a thing about moving it from creative right side of the brain to the physical left side of the brain completes some process that stills the mind. Writing about it is better than meditation… if you can find the words that is.
Today, that idea is the floating of cruise ships paired with other images of ships raising precipitously up enormous waves only to crash down the back side with water pouring over and across the deck. I mean, how would that work with a cruise ship?
The answer is that the cruise ship people watch the weather and the ocean and would never allow their ship anywhere near seas like that. Despite the possible drama in our minds and in our movies, the weather doesn’t barrel across the ocean with surprising speed trapping poor vessels like our top heavy cruise ship. Rather it’s both easy and responsible to keep such a ship out of those kinds of seas.
How Does It Float?
I don’t have an answer. I’m purging my mind. Mission accomplished. But, I don’t want to leave you hanging, so here comes a quick Bing search. (I’m using Bing because I get Microsoft Rewards and I use them to enter sweepstakes to win a Surface because I want one, but I haven’t been willing to justify the expense yet. Good thing I already got my MacBook. I’ve gotten stingy.)
— Maybe I should put batherings like this over Medium in the future. On the other hand, this blog gets neglected far too often and an occasional post is good for it.
How do cruise ships not tip over? Cruise ships are designed to not tip over. Even a large mass, like a cruise ship, will stay afloat due to the principle of buoyancy – the mass is equal to the upward pressure of the water. To minimize rocking, it keeps a low center of gravity by keeping heavy equipment below deck and using ballast tanks.
How Do Cruise Ships Not Tip Over? – Boating Geeks
Here’s a video if you want to see it instead of trusting physics and buoyancy.
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