Fri. 04/02 - When Ships Were Stuck at the Suez Canal for Eight YEARS & a Micronation Was Formed at Sea

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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It turns out we got lucky with how quickly the Ever Given was freed. The last time the Suez Canal was blocked, it dragged on for eight years and led to the creation of a micro-nation at sea with a separate postal service and even their own Olympic Games. How Finland celebrates Easter with trick-or-treating and Easter Witches. NASA’s InSight lander has observed two strong marsquakes recently, helping us measure the planet’s core, but what are quakes like on a planet without tectonic plates? Sponsors: Gabi Insurance, gabi.com/kottke Ladder, ladderlife.com/kottke Links: The Last Time the Suez Canal Was Blocked a Utopian Communist Micronation Was Formed at Sea (Vice) Suez: The Yellow Fleet trapped by the 1967 Arab-Israeli War (Al Jazeera) Suez Canal Opens, but Shipping Will Be Snarled for Months (Wall Street Journal) Wandering witches welcome Finnish Easter (This Is Finland) NASA's InSight Detects Two Sizable Quakes on Mars (NASA JPL) NASA's Insight spacecraft has recently measured the radius of Mars' core (Syfy) NASA InSight (@NASAInSight) (Twitter) 'Game of Thrones' Play in the Works for Broadway, Will Revive Iconic Characters (Exclusive) (Hollywood Reporter) OMEGA MART — “Grand Opening” (Meow Wolf, YouTube) nonstandard mcdonald's (nonstandard mcdonalds, Twitter) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.3	It turns out we got lucky with how quickly the ever-given was freed.
0:46.4	The last time the Suez Canal was blocked, it dragged on for eight years and led to the creation of a micro-nation at sea with a separate postal service and even
0:56.5	their own Olympic Games.
0:59.4	How Finland celebrates Easter with trick-or-treating and Easter witches.
1:05.7	NASA's Insightlander has observed two strong Mars quakes recently, helping us measure the planet's core,
1:12.8	but what are quakes like on a planet without tectonic plates?
1:17.8	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:23.6	After being stuck for six days, the Ever Given was finally freed from the Suez Canal on Tuesday,
1:30.3	but the fallout from blocking global traffic for almost a whole week will continue to be felt for quite some time to come.
1:37.8	First, there were hundreds of vessels backed up behind the Evergiven, and it's been taking them days to all get through,
1:44.4	not to mention all of the others who decided to change course and go around the Cape of Goodhope,
1:49.2	adding thousands of nautical miles to their journeys, and all of those delays cost money.
1:54.8	Ports are also bracing themselves for a flood of vessels all arriving at once on top of regular traffic,
2:01.9	and all of this just adds to the strains that were already on the global shipping economy from disrupted supply
2:06.8	chains and shipping container shortages, consequences of both the pandemic and inclement weather
2:11.7	in various parts of the world. The Wall Street Journal notes that exporters and importers are
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