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Well, as I said, we had a group of photographers that went out on board ships and actually photographed the activities in process.
The San Francisco harbor was clogged with 600 ships at the peak because the ships would get there and the crews would abandon to go search for gold.
So there were literally 600 captains and 600 ships.
They turned the ships into hotels, because they couldn't sail them anywhere.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery once said, "If you want to build a flotilla of ships, you don't sit around talking about carpentry.
The reason why they have to work in winter is because they don't have the money to work in summer and spring, which, if they did that, they would need ships and submersibles to do their work.
Passing ships actually cause clouds to form, and this is a big enough effect that it actually helps reduce global warming already by about a degree.
And so anything from restaurant menus to monastery records to ships' logs to see what the oceans looked like.
And so in this example, a census scientist took out two ships.
I don't think the New World felt too new worldly exciting to the people who were brought over on slave ships.
Factory ships in the open ocean have been vacuuming up hundreds of thousands of tons of small, shrimp-like animals called krill.
I saw airplanes and ships veering off course, with the captain learning only too late that something was wrong.
They are hospital ships.
The algae that grow are in a container that distributes the heat to the surrounding water, and you can harvest them and make biofuels and cosmetics and fertilizer and animal feed, and of course you'd have to make a large area of this, so you'd have to worry about other stakeholders like fishermen and ships and such things, but hey, we're talking about biofuels, and we know the importance of potentially getting an alternative liquid fuel.
However, there's a big problem with the official statistics, in that if, for instance, a Japanese component supplier ships something to China to be put into an iPod, and then the iPod gets shipped to the U.S., that component ends up getting counted multiple times.
When the last of the survivors were finally picked up by two passing ships, less than half of the men were left alive, and some of them had resorted to their own form of cannibalism.
["The British Empire"] Imagine trying to run the show, trying to run the entire planet, without computers, without telephones, with data handwritten on pieces of paper, and traveling by ships.
The Kraken, a beast so terrifying it was said to devour men and ships and whales, and so enormous it could be mistaken for an island.
CA: You asked me the question earlier of how popular traveling on cruises would be if you had to burn your ships afterward.EM: Certain cruises are apparently highly problematic.
And that changed, first with ships when we had the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution and also the Industrial Revolution.
That's all ships, airplanes, trains and automobiles combined.
Pretty much around the same time, I discovered that there were 544 seafarers being held hostage on ships, often anchored just off the Somali coast in plain sight.
Ships have automation now.
So most seafarers now working on container ships often have less than two hours in port at a time.
Ships can now fly the flag of any nation that provides a flag registry.
So we have these very multinational, global, mobile crews on ships.
It was calculated in 2009 that the 15 largest ships pollute in terms of particles and soot and noxious gases as much as all the cars in the world.
I want to salute the 100,000 ships that are at sea that are doing that work, coming in and out every day, bringing us what we need.
How many ships are in all of our world's ports?
From our own computer simulations, we quickly found that one meter really was the minimum viable product to be able to see the drivers of our global economy, for the first time, being able to count the ships and cars and shipping containers and trucks that move around our world on a daily basis, while conveniently still not being able to see individuals.
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