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An Office With a View
So, why would someone give a remote viewing target
of a building? Well, aside from it having an airport-like
control tower at its top, all of its windows on one side,
and a railroad boxcar parked at
its bottom, this 12-story tall building
(including the things on the roof) is not your
ordinary office building. For one thing, the bottom of
the building is located another 10 stories up in the air.
And believe it or not.......
you can ride in it.
Well, you can ride in it if you are one of its
13-member crew, that is. That's right, that building
only houses 13 employees, because the ship it sits on
only needs 13 people to run it. Compare that to
a US aircraft carrier which has a crew of 5,000
men and officers.
It has a polymer-coated hull which helps it move
through the water at 31 knots (compared to the
18-20 knots for most cargo ships). That means
that it can get from China to the U.S. in only
4 days. And why "China to the U.S."? Because
that is it's only route. Too big to fit through
the Panama Canal, it is trapped in the Pacific
Ocean, carrying goods for its only customer...
WalMart.
More than 70% of the goods sold in Wal-Mart are
manufactured in China. Each trip the ship makes
across the Pacific, it carries more than 123,200 tons
of goods destined for WalMart stores across the U.S.,
Canada, and Mexico.
It carries the goods in containers, each the size
of a railway car, and docks at a specially-designed
set of 11 cranes which operate simultaneously to
unload them, and then to load empty boxcars back
onto the ship for return to China. That's right, we
do not send anything back in the way of goods they
might buy from us. The only export to China in this
deal is a lot of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican money.
(FEEDBACK INFO FOR ADVANCED-LEVEL VIEWERS)
At 1,302 ft long, 207 ft wide, and taller than a
22-story building (measuring only the above-water
part), the size of the Emma Maersk is not the only
impressive thing about it. It has a 14 cylinder
in-line motor which puts out 110,000 horsepower.
It has 300,000 cubic feet of storage. It cost
145 million U.S. dollars to build. Its hull has
a special coating which cuts down water resistance
and saves over 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.
And, because of its higher speed, it can cross the
Pacific Ocean in only 4 days.
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