They figured out a way to sail without paying fifty men with rum and scurvy.
by asa_no_kenny
They figured out a way to sail without paying fifty men with rum and scurvy.
by asa_no_kenny
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More like 200 years ago but ok.
Tech bros really just spent a decade and $500 million in R&D just to reinvent the sail.
can’t be 5000 yrs ago…come on..we still using row boat by then
Me and the boys in 2974BC
Imagine some poor Egyptian fisherman seeing a cutter like that 5000 years ago lol
Equivalent of a genuine UFO in modern day
Hear me out, what if instead of polluting automotive engines, we don’t have some animal pull land veichles? Let’s see… bulls have the strength but could be too nasty in demeanor… dogs could be trained but are too small… what about… HORSES!?!? Imagine a car without motor with 2-4 horses pulling it!
The earliest recorded sailboats date back to around 3500–3200 BCE, with the earliest known depiction appearing on an Egyptian vase from 3500 BC. Egyptians used papyrus boats with sails on the Nile by 3200 B.C., likely for transport, trade, and fishing. These early vessels utilized simple sails to harness wind.
Naqada II, circa 3500-3400 B.C.
Yes but I think both the ship and the sail are a lot bigger now
Using kites and sails is not the same.
Did Cotton Hill take over the ship? I heard fitty men
Gone so far to the future that we circled back to the past.
sails on ships did exist 5000 years ago, but not like that
Did someone read the article? Is there anyone in the industry believing this? Is it backed by science? I seriously wanna know. Also how far are hydrogen ships currently?
Shows ship from the XIX century.
Doesn’t need a mast either, seems interesting
The authors finger twitched on that extra 0
In this episode of “tech CEOs renivent the wheel”
I read kites as kitties and spent way too long trying to figure out the joke
A galley like that 5000 years ago?That would be beyond luxurious for any king
The world has truly entered a great pirate era
Key word is “could.” Not practical and will never happen, but it could… We could also train dolphins to pull ships. Just as likely to happen and we COULD do both.
Thats 200 at best
Yes the concept is real. It’s backed by science. And it’s not the only one. None of these has seen wide adoption. Including the even weirder Wind-Assisted Ship Propulsion rotor sails. In those, the sails are tall cilinder that go weeeee and ships goes waaaaaa . Google Maersk Pelican for pics of a real ship using that. Source: Never worked in the field but my degree is in Naval Engineering.
This joke was fun 15 years ago…
Way hey and up she rises, way hey and up she rises, way hey and up she rises early in the morning.
This is post is lazy anti-intellectualism and I’m gonna die on this hill
What kind of ship is that on the bottom?
Pirates looking at this like ‘so we suffered for NOTHING??’ 😭🏴☠️
5000 years? lmao
5000 years ago is way better than recent days😂
There might be an extra zero in that guess?
20 man on a dead man chest
Yo ho ho and the battle of rum.
Reinventing the wheel.
That was only 200 years ago
Full circle ahh moment
I remember seeing this idea 25 years ago.
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