Could I rock the Queen Mary?

[Frylock]

@Princhester

She is of 81,237 gross tons, but that doesn’t have any direct relationship to what she weighs, as I’m sure you know.

Essplain please.

-FrL-

[scm1001]

It worked on “Pirates of the Caribbean III”

[Princhester]

@Frylock

Essplain please.

-FrL-

Essertainly. Mariners insist on using words to mean something totally different. Ask a shipbuilder if you can stand on the floors of a vessel some time and watch him chortle.

Gross tonnage is a measurement of volume, not mass. Displacement tonnage is a measurement of what tonnage of water the vessel displaces, and therefore of its weight.

That the Queen Mary has a displacement fairly similar to its gross tonnage is a co-incidence. Personally, I’ve never seen a vessel where the two figures are so close. They are usually very different.

[Ale]

@What Exit?

I do not know the details, but that is exactly what they tried and it failed to help. Trying to get 3000 men to run side to side on the flight deck, does not seem to me, like it could make much of a difference.

Scene, three thousand sailors are scurriling across the flight deck of a carrier.

Captain on a megaphone: Now boys!, all to starboard!.. aaaaaand now… to port, quick!

The ship doesn´t move at all.

Sailor 1 huffing: It´s useless

Salior 2 puffing: Yes… but he´s the captain!.

Captain: Everyone to starboard!.. you there! the other starboard!

[ftg]

All these posts and not a single person has pointed out that the QM is permanently mounted on giant I-beams anchored into the seabed. These beams pass thru the hull and attach inside the ship.

Nothing is going to make it rock this side of an earthquake.