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3rd April 2021

Post reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 16 notes

kontextmaschine:

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?

>@youzicha said: if this is an anime, I suggest that we resurrect the USS Intrepid in our time of need, like the Yamato

The real question is if the Brooklyn Navy Yard still has the capacity to weld floating tubs together fast enough

  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