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05-14-2003, 01:57 PM
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The ultimate in bad gas mileage
I've just learned that the disney cruise ships get about six inches to the gallon (fortunately it's deisel).
I no longer want to drive one to school.
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05-14-2003, 04:22 PM
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05-14-2003, 04:27 PM
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Re: The ultimate in bad gas mileage
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 Interesting snippet to include in a long list of trivia,but hardly surprising. 
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05-14-2003, 05:41 PM
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6 inches per gallon . thats like a few tons per mile isnt it ??? Never seen a mouse do so much environmental damage lol.
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05-14-2003, 06:12 PM
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Re: The ultimate in bad gas mileage
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05-14-2003, 06:23 PM
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Looking at the figures,I'd have to assume that the numbers quoted refer to the amount of diesel required to move the vessel from a dead stop to a point 6 inches from its original berth in still water.If you extrapolate the figures to,say,a transatlantic rossing,even assuming a neutral sea current,the vessel would need to refuel at sea several times during its voyage.Obviously such a massive tonnage would require an enormous amount of energy to reach any kind of momentum,but once at cruising speed,the fuel requirement would be much less.
which is all about as important in the grand scheme of things as the 'swallows and coconuts' argument,but still. 
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05-14-2003, 07:02 PM
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Hey that's not bad at all!
If you use som logic, you'll find it's pretty o.k. Now if we were talking about a car it'd be horrible because a car will only be carrying five people at best, but the cruise ship is carrying several hundred to a thousand people (how big do they make them now?) I wonder if somebody wants to figure out gas used per passenger over distance?
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05-14-2003, 07:26 PM
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ss canberra website puts fuel consumption @ 300 tonnes max per day
at a maximum operational speed of 23.5 knots.the complement[crew]was listed as 806 following conversion to cruising (1973) the Passenger Capacity (as built) 548 (1st class) 1690 (tourist class) . Add a couple of stowaways and you have a fraction over 3000 people assuming that the effects of wind and current are neutral,you could cover about 570 nautical miles in 24 hours. That's as far as I can be arsed taking the figures,and I am using a historic ship because 1/I have strong personal links with the 'Great White' and 2/Ican't be arsed finding the stats for newer vessels. Fun way to waste half an hour though!
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05-14-2003, 09:59 PM
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Originally posted by TexasF355F1
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if you don't care, why chime in on the topic? (that you don't care about, remember?) I seek to entertain, Naki...LOL!!!! DrkLvr, I hereby appoint you Executive officer in the Anti-Altezza Alliance.
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05-14-2003, 11:25 PM
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 I was the one who created AAA. :finger4: What right to YOU have to appoint people to positions in MY club???? Hmmmmmmmmm????
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05-14-2003, 11:59 PM
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umm...while it is true that one Saturntangerine was responsible for the ideas that the newly formed (by me) Anti-Altezza Alliance was formed to protect, it was none other than me, myself and I who is responsible for the Alliances affairs...
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