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This is the Sheerleg, a 3000-ton crane that snaps together "megablocks," or massive pieces of a ship that are assembled together LEGO-style. In the above time-lapse video, the giant crane places a 10-story megablock on a $750-million, 750-long, 137-foot-deep Samsung offshore drillship. More »
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We've already seen how future ships can be cloaked against sonar, and maybe someday even space and time. Now researchers say they can cloak the ships' wakes, tricking water itself into acting as though nothing is there. More »
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Airships, the silent, futuristic vessels that float through the skies of alternate histories and ecotopias, aren't just the stuff of science fiction. Here are ten airship that exist today, or are under development for tomorrow. More »
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Waterjet boats are propelled by a fast jet of water that's forced through pumps and shot out of the back of the ship. And now the military is implanting this technology in huge boats to make them achieve super speeds. More »
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Starting in 2013, the largest cargo ships in the world will be rolling off the assembly line and onto the water. Shipping and oil drilling company Maersk has just ordered the largest ship in the world to be built by Korea's Daewoo Shipbuiling and Marine Manufacturing. It will be a cargo ship that's 400 meters long, a much larger version of the already-vast ships pictured here. More »
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In a future where we cruise back and forth between our underwater cities in lovingly hand-crafted vessels, we can look forward to Andrew George Brown's "Fanciful Submarines," whimsical boats that fin through the waters and creep across the ocean floor. More »
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A passenger vessel the size of a whale and packed with gardens, the concept ship Physalia is also designed to purify every river it floats in. Keep the Physalia in your river for long enough, and it will create drinkable water. More »
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Like last century's space junk, this vessel that once bore humans through a dangerous and hostile element are now decaying into the Earth. Here is a haunting gallery of the places our ships go to die. More »
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The addictive fantasy puzzle game Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords has just made the leap into science fiction. Game-maker Infinite Interctive recently announced Galactrix, which mixes portions of Hexic, Tetris and Bejeweled with outer space battles between all kinds of spaceships. Plus you can challenge other players to puzzle duels, and there will be extremely cool aliens. Find out more and check out the gallery inside. More »
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The Panama Canal, a human-created waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, is the last century's greatest work of geoengineering. And it continues to evolve. Just a few months ago, workers began setting off explosives like those you see here to widen the canal and allow oil supertankers to get through. Want to see more of the canal and the giant ships that traverse it? More »
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