Science Nerd Pr0n: I know we have a few here

Buried by the hoopla over the #Brexit fiasco, the news cycle missed the Panama Canal expansion.
Now LNG super tankers can go from Texas to the Far East via Canal rather tha around Cape Horn.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3664317/Expanding-Panama-Canal-Incredible-pictures-world-s-famous-waterway-transformed-5-5bn-project-features-locks-weighing-4-200-tonnes-4-4million-cubic-meters-concrete.html


those are just the doors to the Locks

yes, THE DOORS

 

Very cool to see what mankind can do...Instead other things make the headines not Brexit exactly but terrorism..SMH

 

That's a BIG story! Thanks for sharing, frank!

 

but for every silver lining?, there is a cloud
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/22/world/americas/panama-canal.html

 

Has anyone here gone through the Panama Canal?

 

Wow this is impressive. I hope they make a show about it on Discovery or one of the other nerd channels. I saw one about the whole initial building process up through present time and it was fascinating.

 

I haven't..........but........
my uncle was stationed there, to guard it, during WW II.
He got malaria.
He had bouts of it, the rest of his life.
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I think I could live in Panama ?.....but I'd choose Costa Rica, first.

 

When I was in the Navy. It took a lot longer to get through than I thought it would.

 

I never have, but my folks took a cruise ship through it a while ago. They said that the ship was so bit, they could almost touch the sides sometimes.