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3rd April 2021

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Something I’ve wondered about is if you cut the bridges/tunnels into Manhattan how long you could keep it Berlin Airlift-style supplied for, or alternatively evacuate it before it starves.

I guess you could use the Staten Island and those new dinky ferries, but are there even still enough docks (and properly sized vessels) to matter?

  1. lowercase-morass reblogged this from poipoipoi-2016
  2. theresponseblog said: or build ships out of concrete like they did in WWII
  3. jacopo-belbo said: you might have to Dunkirk that shit in a bunch of yachts tbh
  4. kontextmaschine said: @poipoipoi-2016 as long as the lines are standard gauge they’d be usable for freight in that bad an emergency, though yeah *receiving* capacity might be a bottleneck
  5. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    >@youzicha said: if this is an anime, I suggest that we resurrect the USS Intrepid in our time of need, like the...
  6. poipoipoi-2016 reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    Not quite the question you’re asking, but one of the subtle issues with Manhattan and NYC in general is that there are...
  7. youzicha said: if this is an anime, I suggest that we resurrect the USS Intrepid in our time of need, like the Yamato