World's Largest Ship Floated For the First Time 166
Zothecula writes "A ship with a hull longer than the Empire State Building is tall has been floated out of dry dock in Geoje, South Korea. Measuring 488 m (1,601 ft) long and 74 m (243 ft) wide, the hull belongs to Shell's Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility, which upon completion will be the largest floating facility ever built."
Whatever.... (Score:5, Funny)
And they used to say... (Score:5, Funny)
It's not the size of the ship, it's the motion in the ocean....
Apparently, it *is* all about the size of the ship!
Re:Worlds biggest shipyards (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Technically it is not a ship... (Score:5, Funny)
to me it looks like a cross between the titanic and the Hindenburg.
stand back.
Described using wrong units. meters?? WTH?? (Score:2, Funny)
Well, at least they could have used the next best length unit, football fields. But, no, they would not use something so familiar to us and readily imaginable by all of us as the lengths football fields. True, I concede, using how many skyscrapers it would dwarf once you image it standing on its end or how big a building it could enclose in its shell, etc would somewhat ameliorate the use of such abstruse exotic and non standard units as meters.
Re:Technically it is not a ship... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Archer could provide some choice words to this effect.
Re:Technically it is not a ship... (Score:5, Funny)
RTFA: "three 6,700-hp thrusters at the rear of the Prelude"
That Honda must go hella fast, unless it has to haul your mom around.