A friend and I have been having an ongoing debate for years. We were at a pub on a wharf, watching shipping container ships and cruise ships come into dock, and he posed the question. With no wind, no waves, perfect conditions, could he move the ship at all?
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> no wind, no waves, perfect conditions,
IOW, conditions that don’t exist anywhere. There’s always some movement in the air, even if you don’t feel it as wind on your skin. The slightest difference in air pressure on both sides of a ship, a difference that’s way too small for you to perceive as wind, will create a force that’s too strong for you to overcome.
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