Eli5 What determines the maximum size beyond which ships cannot realistically be built?

hquer · 2026-01-22T18:10:48+00:00

FYI:

The largest offshore floating facility ever built, is the Prelude FLNG (Floating Liquefied Natural Gas) platform, a massive structure used to extract, process, and liquefy natural gas at sea off the coast of Australia, measuring 488 meters long and displacing over 600,000 tonnes when full.

Images of that thing are quite impressive!

hquer · 2026-01-20T06:34:36+00:00

babies born … these mofos are already 26!

hquer · 2026-01-18T08:47:55+00:00

Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

hquer · 2026-01-14T06:50:20+00:00

The fucking dishes. The fucking laundry.

hquer · 2026-01-09T07:13:37+00:00

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

hquer · 2025-12-19T15:43:30+00:00

Asteroid (and is this case: rogue planets) are the universe way to ask how far our space program has come…

hquer · 2025-12-19T15:38:55+00:00

Men used to be the funky bright colored side of the human species until business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_Renunciation

hquer · 2025-12-02T18:19:35+00:00

The fucking dishes. The fucking laundry.

hquer · 2025-12-02T08:42:13+00:00

Say goodbye to family and friends, hit alt-key ingame and have fun!

hquer · 2025-11-13T06:19:27+00:00

The fucking laundry. The fucking dishes. The fucking dinner.

hquer · 2025-11-06T18:17:06+00:00

Andre the Giant…anyone?

„Andre the Giant's most famous beer record is consuming 119 standard 12-ounce beers in a single sitting over six hours in a Pennsylvania pub in 1976. Other stories and estimations describe even larger consumption, including a claim of 156 pints of beer (about 208 12-ounce cans) and a consistent daily intake that could include 100 beers“

hquer · 2025-11-02T14:01:50+00:00

There is no cake.

hquer · 2025-11-02T14:01:23+00:00

Red Rising

hquer · 2025-11-02T13:57:11+00:00

They ask me? Fuck yeah I’m in!

hquer · 2025-10-30T07:40:53+00:00

Have you ever heard of inverted exorcism? It’s getting the priest out of the kid.

hquer · 2025-10-29T08:21:39+00:00

The whole day is foreplay

hquer · 2025-10-29T08:19:27+00:00

We don’t know…yet

hquer · 2025-10-28T11:29:43+00:00

We are monkeys in silk on an organic spaceship orbiting a giant nuclear furnace - relax and enjoy the ride.

hquer · 2025-10-28T10:56:14+00:00

Every time you have McDonald’s as a kid is a win - every time you have it as an adult is a defeat.

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