RumbuncTheRadiant t1_j4iak12 wrote on January 15, 2023 at 10:37 PM Reply to Is there an upper limit on the size of a ship? by LilyFish- To extrapolate very very far.... If you scaled up an ordinary shaped ship, to truly enormous bigger than would fit in any earth sea, you'd run into this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point#High-pressure_phases ...where it's sort of no longer "floating".. it's bottom is resting on a somewhat weird solid. Permalink 8
RumbuncTheRadiant t1_j4iak12 wrote
Reply to Is there an upper limit on the size of a ship? by LilyFish-
To extrapolate very very far....
If you scaled up an ordinary shaped ship, to truly enormous bigger than would fit in any earth sea, you'd run into this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point#High-pressure_phases
...where it's sort of no longer "floating".. it's bottom is resting on a somewhat weird solid.