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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2026 20:14:11 No.2063465 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2063468 >>2063491 >>2065954 >>2066364

When are we getting nuclear powered ocean liners?

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Anonymous Fri 16 Jan 2026 20:28:32 No.2063468 Report

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>>2063465
Never. Bunker oil is still cheap, and sea fairing is the domain of turd world’s working for peanuts. That’s the exact opposite of what you need to operate a nuclear vessel.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 01:21:53 No.2063491 Report

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>>2063465
read up on the NS Otto Hahn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn_(ship)

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Anonymous Sat 17 Jan 2026 13:25:51 No.2063544 Report

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forget that, when the fuck are we getting massive hovercraft ferries again?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Jan 2026 06:28:59 No.2064303 Report

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>>2063544
it bugs me that the personnel are so exposed in a ge style hovercraft, coanda effect craft maybe a double shell protecting the props i think you can change pressure under the craft for steering instead of pressurizing the entire belly i think only only the lip of high pressure can hold up the craft like a homes foundation, load on the outer walls

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Anonymous Tue 17 Feb 2026 18:54:09 No.2065954 Report

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>>2063465
Same time we get modular land nuclear....pass the hat...

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 19:57:59 No.2066152 Report

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>>2063544
never, they're loud as fuck, very fuel inefficient, the entire point of them is amphibiousness which is irrel for a ferry, and it turns out waves exist and will btfo you hovercraft 9 months out of the year

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 20:02:45 No.2066155 Report

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>>2066152
/n/ will unironically defend shattering the windows of 30,000 houses every day to get oligarchs from london to new york in 3 hours flat but a little comfy hovercraft noise that doesn't hurt anyone except some walruses is too much

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Anonymous Sat 21 Feb 2026 01:19:13 No.2066180 Report

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>>2066152
>very fuel inefficient
We could probably improve that at least. There's been a ton of work on propeller design as part of making planes more efficient.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Feb 2026 11:50:04 No.2066195 Report

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>>2066180
it will never be as efficient as a normal ship because normal ships dont have to spend fuel to stay afloat at all*

*bilge pumps dont count

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 01:28:45 No.2066364 Report

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>>2063465
NS Savannah was a combination cargo/passenger ship.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 22:10:49 No.2066469 Report

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Probably not the best place to ask but seeing you cruise ship autists here
I've been curious, if you had waves of about 4 meters or so, how much would a cruise ship rise or pitch? I've heard you don't even feel the movement on modern ships, but I've been wondering if the ship actually moves the same amount up and down and if there's way to calculate the movement

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