You have 1000 kilograms of clean, fresh water in a single IBC container in Sydney at the Opera house. You will be paid 1 million dollars if you can deliver it to Los Angeles McArthur Park within 3 weeks, or 21 days, or 504 hours. You can split the water into as many containers as you want, and the IBC doesn’t need to make it to LA, just the water inside. If you deliver 2000 bottles each containing 500ml of undiluted, clean, fresh water, or like, 99% of it to account for evaporation and some spillage, that counts as a win. You can assume that any partial water deliveries that remain in Sydney or arrive in LA won’t be stolen in your absence so you don’t need to hire guards. There are no consequences for failing, but if you do fail or succeed, any money you spend on the project, you don’t get refunded. Normal consequences for breaking laws apply.

How do you do it, or do you even bother trying?

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Thanks for the great detailed explanation. So ignoring the original silly question. How do smaller commercial planes manage the shifting of fuel and such. I’ve been on some prop planes that had a bathroom, and in some cases removed passengers because we were overweight.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      3·
      6 days ago

      Fuel is typically stored in the wings, so as it depletes, it doesn’t change the center of gravity of the plane with regard to the lift. Center of gravity is very important in smaller planes.

      But there’s really not that much sloshing or shifting of liquids after takeoff. The tanks can be segmented, but just like being able to walk in a plane, there’s not a lot of shifting overall. It’s a constant pull backwards, but that’s about it.

      Smaller planes with bathrooms use a more camp toilet kind of system, with less liquid, which is all generally stored and held in the same part of the plane, so no shifting of weight in a large scale. I’ve been in a 6-seater with a lavatory, and we were basically told to hold it because the crew didn’t want to clean the tank. But it was all in a stack in the same part of the body.