Eli5 Why the biggest boats are so much bigger than the biggest land vehicles.

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I was thinking maybe because the ocean is a lot flatter than a lot of terrain but there’s also large waves and storms and sea. I also can’t imagine that something like an aircraft carrier would be significantly less complicated or difficult to build than an equally sized land vehicle.

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#1 You need to move it. Building gigantic tracks or wheels would get expensive fast.

#2 Where would you even use it?

#3 What would be the purpose? Something like that wouldn’t be able to move very fast.

As for size, larger ships are much more stable than smaller ships because it takes a lot more energy to rock them about.

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