how fast do oil tankers sail? we are sending US coast guard and war ships to “intercept” one and somehow it is evading the fleet?
I got used to sand instead of salt on Utah roads. This explains why: Standard road salt becomes significantly less effective below 15°F to 20°F (-9°C to -7°C). At extreme cold, sand or special treatments (like beet juice mixes) are used for traction instead.
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It’s not exactly a matter of “how fast” as it is one of “open expanses with nothing to distinguish the terrain”. You can know that something is somewhere in a 10 (nautical) mile radius . . . and spend quite some time searching that space before realizing which direction they ended up going.
And “the bigger the ship, the more limited its max speed is going to be” works on both sides of the pursuit.
Would be fun to watch these ships try to turn around. I expect the warship is more manoeuvrable
Yeah, they use salt where I am but I believe in rural/northern ontario and quebec they use sand for that reason.
I think they tried beet juice here some years ago but I don’t think they’re using it anymore.
Depends on the warship and its propulsion system. It certainly isn’t the same as turning a car or an aircraft to be sure.
If you believe this ship was accidentally dragging its anchor along the seabed when it broke the cable I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell you.
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Michael Caine is the best Scrooge.
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I’ve been off since 12/24, but it’s back to the office tomorrow. I wasn’t as productive with my time off as I had hoped to be, but it was pretty good regardless. And I miss my coworkers; I’m looking forward to being back.
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Muppet Christmas Carol totally rocks!!
“Light the lamp! NOT THE RAT!!”
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first cardboard pickup day since Christmas - looking down the block, you can easily see the Christian houses from the Jewish houses
I’ve been off since 12/24/08 and have never felt an urge to go back! 
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I watched a dude drive a pickup into a ditch at 10 am once, and when I got to him (clearly drunk) he said, “I can’t get a third DUI, they’ll put me in jail for ten years.”
I goddamn hope so!
We are on a cruise due in port tomorrow morning. except they had a medical emergency. So the got us to port this morning to drop off someone. then back out to sea.
which iso odd.because I figured it would take that time to get us to port. nope, they’re just killing a day.
so today I guess we just.leave port drive around in circles and return to port tomorrow morning. ok.
I think we probably have to leave port and drive around so they can open the casino.
also somewhat random, we are seated at supper with a couple from Pennsylvania. mostly pleasant, bright, but in pretty sure they’re trumpers given some of the comments. so I’m careful what I say around them. particularly since events of the past week or so would be topics of conversation. nope, not mentioning Greenland, or people getting shot in the streets by police.
It is also possible another ship needs the port while you are circling around
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I’m texting a young guy I know from fishing, originally from Tunisia. I think raised Muslim, but not practicing. he wants to get married and start a family, doesn’t want to wait 5-10 years to do it the western way. so he wants an arranged marriage. I told him to call mom back home but he said someone Canadian would be better, helps with his immigration application.
I told him we should set up a website for Canadian Muslims matchmaking services lol. then I Googled it. there’s dozens already out there lol.
I dunno, I wasn’t expecting that.
Got two weird password reset emails for my instagram account (only social media I have left) as my wife likes to use it to share pictures from trips with wider family. So it looks like instagram was hacked. Big time.
Weaselette got similar spam. Took her a minute to decide if it was real or not.
are there any celebrities NOT advertising that game app?
I don’t play such games, so safe to assume they more or less have in-game purchase of game shit and that’s how the milk money from people?
