"Our job is not to make up anybody’s mind, but to open minds, and to make the agony of decision-making so intense you can escape only by thinking."
- Fred W. Friendly (1915-1998)

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- Aldous Huxley

"If you have ever injected truth into politics, then you have no politics."
- Will Rogers

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Salvaging the Costa Concordia

Monday (tomorrow) the active part and final stage (hopefully) of refloating and raising the Costa Concordia will get underway.

This is one of those efforts that especially interests me, because while it is certainly groundbreaking (so to speak), it also is at its heart a mixture of basic science and engineering. Leveraged use of gravity, force, buoyancy and hydraulics will hopefully join together to refloat this wreck and send it on its last, ignominious, towed voyage.  

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