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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Here’s a weirder thought than that. If you do a free body diagram, the tension on the line that would be pulled to do this would actually deform the (elastic steel) ships hull though it would be an un-measurably small amount.
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