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Testing the WWI concrete ships and WWII concrete barges

26 pointsby surprisetalkyesterday at 12:00 PM7 commentsview on HN

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5555624today at 5:45 PM

ASCE (American Society opf Civil Engineering) has an annual Concrete Canoe Competition. (https://www.asce.org/communities/student-members/conferences...)

UncleSlackytoday at 5:18 PM

Reminds me of "pykrete" which was also a potential construction material for ships (notably aircraft carriers) proposed during WWII:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete

jimnotgymtoday at 3:46 PM

Interestingly concrete yachts are a thing. Ferro-cement is the term, but it is just reinforced concrete. You can buy very large yachts for small amounts of money with yachts made this way in the 70s.

Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason

ninalanyontoday at 3:57 PM

Was this created by AI and not proofread or created by a human and not proofread? The paragraph relating to the Musgraves taking over a factory is repeated and it reads rather oddly.

Anyway, regardless of that nitpick, it was an interesting read.

warumdarumtoday at 4:40 PM

You could do that today for cargodrone boats sintering or epoxy glueing beachsand?

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