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#456 | Can you steer this ship?
You may or may not remember this, but back in 2021, a ship blocked the Suez Canal for a whole week. The ship - The Ever Given - itself took three months to sail again, but the week in which it blocked the canal led to a global supply chain disruption, which took forever to resolve. With good reason. In 2020 alone, more than 50 ships passed through the canal daily, taking goods and supplies from and to all parts of the world.
The Suez Canal is a particularly difficult place to navigate bulky vehicles through. But I'm sure you would've done a better job than the captain of the Ever Given, right? Well, today's Thing allows you to prove it.
An interactive experiment launched by CNN that asks you to navigate a ship through the very place the Ever Given got stuck at. Sure, the physics doesn't entirely replicate real-world conditions, but it is a fun little experiment nevertheless. And no, I haven't yet managed to take a ship the whole way through.
But you go full steam ahead. I have faith in you.
Baaa.