Yeah, I picked scratch numbers from Wikipedia and picked low numbers to make the point. The bigger ones are 10 times the size so you can just add a zero.
Pirate groups, having ships, don't generally feel obligated to stay in national waters. The groups operate in the entire area and past it into the Indian Ocean.
The other person said highway bandits and the picture is a dashed line across the desert, not the ocean. I Doubt Somali pirates would make it to Saudi Arabia or Oman to there then pivot from ocean piracy to bush bandits.
I have never heard of this before and rather than Google it I'm going to decide that if you put 5-10 parallel rail lines to spread the weight you can actually put a whole oil tanker on rollers to drive it across the desert to the other side of the continent.
I mean they could
A barrel is 42 gallons.
A 4 trailer road train can carry up to 32,000 gallons.
Oil tanker can be 70,000 barrels plus.
Which is let's say 3 million gallons.
So it would take a single road train about 94 trips or 94 road trains 1 trip.
So they just need a road that may or may not exist and a couple thousand trucks and about 4 times as many trailers.
The "plus" is doing a lot of work here. Oil tankers can be up to several million barrels.
Crude oil tankers are much larger than that & trucks don't run on crude oil.
Yeah, I picked scratch numbers from Wikipedia and picked low numbers to make the point. The bigger ones are 10 times the size so you can just add a zero.
Yes I'm sure there's a train line from point A to B, the employees for it, and nearby crude oil refineries to fuel the train.
I love this, but in all fairness, its too credible.
Somali pirates gonna just pivot to being Somali highway bandits.
Somalia is 1000km away from this
Oh it's all in Africa, how big can it be? /s
Pirate groups, having ships, don't generally feel obligated to stay in national waters. The groups operate in the entire area and past it into the Indian Ocean.
The other person said highway bandits and the picture is a dashed line across the desert, not the ocean. I Doubt Somali pirates would make it to Saudi Arabia or Oman to there then pivot from ocean piracy to bush bandits.
Then you don't know anything about actual pirates.
tfw you realize your gas tank has always been empty
The meditating statue looks heavy (if it's to scale) – what is it gonna cost to move it that distance?
The problem is you're going through 2, potentially 3 countries there.
The crisis of faith looks pretty close to where the 3 might meet even.
Well, realising you're actually just going to sit in the dark transcends countries.
(More credibly, I'm guessing sending several thousand trucks through a random patch of the Middle East would not be cheap, regardless of borders)
This looks like a job for.... The Chignecto Marine Transport Railway!
I have never heard of this before and rather than Google it I'm going to decide that if you put 5-10 parallel rail lines to spread the weight you can actually put a whole oil tanker on rollers to drive it across the desert to the other side of the continent.
10/10 no notes
Finally a Nova Scotia thing on NCD
There's actually already a pipeline at the exit point.
peepayleeeneigh? what the hell is a peepayleeeneigh?
I always knew enlightenment was riding a bicycle!