• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    As an emergency system, you could fire drones at the ship that embed or magnetically attach themselves near the water line, to change the flow direction.

    Obviously this requires a simulation that you trust to pick a better path and not make things work.

    It would be like when you’re in a canoe and need to make an emergency turn and you just jam your paddle over the side and crank on it like a pry bar.

    There’s got to be some way of quickly deploying a new fin to a moving ship to change its heading.