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Charlie Stross

@hannah Now do that for Panamax container ships and aircraft carriers going in and out of Lake Gatun instead of the existing locks …

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EaterOfSnacks

@cstross @hannah Back when I did visuals for marine civils firms, a Giant Grabby Crane System (for picking up container and bulk ships and shaking their cargo into big sorting hoppers) may have snuck into a presentation or two. Rejected by short-sighted fools, as were my Floating Irish Sea Train Link and the London Transport Pneumatic Trampoline Network. No wonder the world's in the state that it is.

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