The other day, after going sailing, I was thinking “yeah I’ll be comfortable in a ship with maybe 6 decks,” and lo and behold, yesterday morning the ‘Aurora’ was docked at the Circular Quay international dock, all 7 or 8 decks of it. I still don’t quite concieve how physics can let that thing float. It literally looks like a gigantic hotel that just so happens to be on the water.
Forget floating, I don’t get how that thing moves. With a jumbo jet, you can see the wide wings and gigantic engines, all 4 of them just waiting to get up to speed. It’s big, but it has suggestions of being able to move should there be demand for it. With the boat ship, there’s just a chimney, and cleverly disguised at that, so you’re never quite sure if it actually does. Evidence such as the fact that it isn’t there this morning suggests that clearly, it does move, but I think until I’m actually on a moving one I’ll not quite believe it.
It also made me think of the era when ships were the way to go. If the Aurora looks huge to me, how big was the Queen Mary II, one of the biggest ships out there? Gads, how much engineering goes into one of these things?
Anyway, just thought I’d share that with you.
edit: egads, what replaced it was no other than the QEII. Gigantic doesn’t begin to describe it.
I envy you!!!
I once saw a cruise ship in Venice. That place is FLAT. It looked like the mothership had landed… I thought the ship would make a wrong turn and crush the place Now that I think about it… how did they get off the boat? Must’ve beamed down.
I don’t quite understand it either. But at least they don’t make me seasick.
Hmmm Venice eh =) *puts down on list of places to go in Europe*