Philosophy meets shower thoughts. Deep thinking about the deep blue sea. Big ideas to percolate and contemplate while you're laying back on your foredeck looking up at the stars. Instant icebreaker for yacht club chatter.
Ideas
Data centers need lots of water, so it might seem reasonable to build one on a barge and set it afloat on a bay or gulf. That was Google's idea in 2007 when it filed US Patent Number 7,525,207 for a Water-Based Data Center. Officially,
Ideas
Sextants are obsolete relics, they said. Spending time studying celestial navigation or using paper charts and hand tools to plot your course is a silly pastime for dinosaurs, they said. We can rely on our phone to get around with confidence, by land and sea, and the entire world has
Ideas
Think you got a tough knot? Here are knots so complicated that they only exist in another dimension. The whole point of nautical knots is that they need to be strong and reliable while remaining simple to tie and untie quickly and with ease. But every sailor still deals with