Speaker 3
Smaait. Ok, it is time for fact number three, and that is my fact. My fact this week is that ships can squat to get under bridges.
Speaker 1
Really, pop a squat
Speaker 3
and get under ever, they don't have any leg they don how many le obvious response, no, they can't. Wat you talk. So this is a pretty amazing thing. Basically, what they do in order to achieve the squat is they make the ship go faster. And when you move a ship faster, there's obviously a lot more water passing faster. And when it passes faster, particularly underneath the boat, the pressure decreases, and so the ship sinks further down into it, so to gets sucked to the bottomnd, that's how they achieve it. And they work out the measurements. They work out how much they need to go down, and that's the speed to which they in order to gain that extra distance from a bridge. And we've seen it happen as to times. I mean, it's pretty crazy. There's a, one of the biggest cruise ships in the world, is called the oasis of the seas. And it needed to do this. It needed to get under a bridge that connects the danish islands of zealand and sprogo am. So it couldn't get under at the height that it was at. And they did a few things, like they had to collapse the tall standing funnels. Didn't you do that? Yes, some ships are built to do that, specifically for bridges.
Speaker 1
Yes. Imebu no, if those ships are in bottles that can do therw
Speaker 3
in this casetis this particular ship could. The oasis of the seas, but it still wasn't enough, so they needed to approach the bridge at 20 knots. Come so they did that. And if you get it wrong, then that's it. You ges realy fast, you're go really ot into bridge. But it managed to do it. And it clearance by you foot. So they must have, i
Speaker 2
mean, imagined the mats for that word.
Speaker 1
E. This is exactly the right e. That's a lot of pressure, isn't o, would be funny to be the ship's mathematician, just hearing this enormous chroni above deck and looking o, t your notes and going, ohay.
Speaker 2
The one. O in that bridge is called the great belt bridge in denmark. Andi checked out whether it has been hit in the pass hit's been hit once since it was opened, and that was by karen danielson.
Speaker 1
Ony mame fora ship. It's that's the day of the shield. Joking. No, the
Speaker 3
karen danielsoni
Speaker 2
crashed into it in two thousand and five. And because you couldn't get any traffic across, this is one of the main bridges from one of the most populous parts of denmark to the rest of it. It basitly cut the whole of denmark into two and one could get me te sa. And karen danielson, as far as i can tell, must be named after karen danielson, who's a psychoanalyst. Because i can't find any other caren danielson's. She might be better known to you as caren horney. A horney, ringing bells? No, she's a really, really famoured psychoanalyst who is like a feminist freudianand freud has the theory of nus envy, right? The women are neurotic cause they want to have penuses. Instea of e she invented something called womb envy in men. And she says that this is just as common, if not more common, in men. And men are neurotic because they're envious of women's ability to bear children. And whereas women fulfil their society simply by being here, men have to achieve their manhood by succeeding in life. Dear, that's carren harneyas
Speaker 1
that's whatill speakin of invention. Someho have always wanted to invent a name for the opposite of nominative determinism. She's horny, and so she's gone in the opposite direction. She denies all the horniness that old freud put forward. According to wicopaedia, horney was bewildered by psychiatrist's tendency to place so much emphasis on the male sexual organ crams. What a good reversal would be for nominative determinism. You could call it determanism. Yes. So it's being
Speaker 3
i put things off.