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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Assuming no water resistance
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150.000.000kg vs 75kg to start moving this at 1m/s it will take 150m/75=2.000.000 times the energy as you not pushing this weight.
On top of that you have to push the water in front of the ship away… So yeah no measurable movement at all.
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