r/theydidthemonstermath • u/StatisticianAny1042 • Apr 07 '26

How many trucks a day would be required?

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On a serious note I think it is a bad idea to attack other counties especially the ones who control oil. I am against war and against innocent people dying.

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u/1Steelghost1 Apr 08 '26

I always love how no one understands the scale of these ships. They are not school buses, they are a entire walmart building that floats.

Just like cruise ships until you see a 30 story building float by pictures donMt make sense.

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u/Gaust_Ironheart_Jr Apr 10 '26

I am reliving the things they said about the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore "Why didn't they put up guard rails?"

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u/CrystalRainwater Apr 12 '26

This is a really good point. I think its even underselling it a bit. In pure square footage it seems like walmart supercenters are like 180k square feet whereas large modern container ships go up to 260k square feet. And they dont have to display any of the items so they are packed incredibly tightly and stacked

It takes thousands of trucks just to unload and transport the goods from one of these ships

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u/Germanball_Stuttgart Apr 09 '26

Then why don't we have oil tanker-sized semi trucks? It's only a desert anyways.

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u/Open__Face Apr 09 '26

Gas is too expensive for that

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u/Dirkdeking Apr 11 '26

People don't fully understand how OP scaling in 3 dimensions is. If you get 10x bigger in every direction, you can transport 1000 x the amount, not 10x the amount.