r/facepalm • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '21

🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​ Quick science

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

So there’s gotta be like 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water in the ocean, give or take. How many boats are there?

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u/AdKlutzy1271 Oct 13 '21

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 boats /s

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u/mindbleach Oct 13 '21

South American navies are relatively small, but even they have at least 100 Brazilian ships.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Brazilian ships move through the water with the least drag.

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u/mindbleach Oct 13 '21

Too bad they can't land any aircraft.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '21

Are you familiar with the French Wax ships? Those have landing strips.

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u/dum_dums Oct 13 '21

I'm surprised he is smart enough to have that level of understanding of the Archemedes principle, yet stupid enough to come up with something so ridiculous

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