Earlier this week, the internet got its first look at a very big boat. When we say “big boat,” we mean gobsmackingly big. Massive. Five-times-the-size-and-weight-of-the-Titanic big.The boat in question is the new “Icon of the Seas,” the world’s biggest cruise ship, set to join the Royal Caribbean fleet on Oct. 26. It will be ready for the public in 2024.AdvertisementThe liner ― which includes the biggest water park at sea, its own “Central Park,” eight “neighborhoods,” and 20 total decks ― has room for 5,610 passengers and 2,350 crew. It’s nearly 1,200 feet long and will weigh a projected 250,800 tons. Moving it is apparently the equivalent of trying to keep two of Toronto’s CN Towers afloat.Here’s the rendering of the boat that’s going around: The “Icon Of The Seas” sets sail in January 2024. 5610 passengers, 2350 crew members, 5 times larger and heavier than the Titanic, 19 floors with more than 40 bars, restaurants and bowling alleys. What a monstrosity! pic.twitter.com/igoQRUZ3nP— Ray Monk (@Raymodraco) July 9, 2023The cruise ship is an impressive feat of engineering, but on Twitter and TikTok, people weren’t focusing on that. Instead, many talked about how uneasy its size made them feel.Here’s a sampling of the scorn posted on Twitter:“This is human lasagna and the orcas are gonna FEAST”“That Icon of the Seas ship actually looks like hell on water. Just looking at the pictures gives me anxiety.” ″‘Five times larger and heavier than the Titanic’ is not a feature that makes anyone with sense want to get on board….”“Looking at that monstrosity of a cruise ship gives me anxiety. I cannot fathom being trapped on that in the middle of the ocean *shudder*” “I understand the physics of ships this size, but when I see them I simply don’t get the physics of ships this size. Also…holy biscuits is this thing terrible.”One person even quoted Revelations 13:1! (“And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous names on its heads.”)It’s worth emphasizing here that the image going around the internet is a rendering. The “Icon of the Seas” looks considerably less trippy (and Candy Crush-colored, at least from this view) in a recent pic from a test run:Royal Caribbean InternationalLast month, Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas” successfully sailed the open ocean for the first time after completing its first sea trials in Turku, Finland, where it is under construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard.And it certainly sounds safe. Last month, the vessel sailed the open ocean for the first time and staffers spent four days testing the main engines, hull, brakes, steering system and other components.Still, if you were unnerved by that first pic, you clearly weren’t alone. It is an unnerving image, said Elisabeth Morray, a psychologist and VP of clinical operations at Alma, a mental health startup that helps therapists manage their practices and contract with insurers.Advertisement“As human beings, we are hard-wired to pay attention to our safety,” she told HuffPost. “We intuitively want to feel that we could escape from a threat if we needed to, and there are lots of identifiable threats to our safety that might be triggered by this image.”For instance, does this look like it would be stable on the constantly moving surface of the ocean? It’s no doubt structurally sound ― but the rendering looks like multiple Carvel children’s cakes balanced on top of each other, waiting to topple over in the Atlantic.Plus, there’s the foreknowledge we have of cruise ship incidents in the recent past: disease outbreaks, reports of assault, deadly accidents. And who could forget the infamous “poop cruise” in 2013, when Carnival Triumph passengers were strande …
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[mwai_chat context=”Let’s have a discussion about this article:nnEarlier this week, the internet got its first look at a very big boat. When we say “big boat,” we mean gobsmackingly big. Massive. Five-times-the-size-and-weight-of-the-Titanic big.The boat in question is the new “Icon of the Seas,” the world’s biggest cruise ship, set to join the Royal Caribbean fleet on Oct. 26. It will be ready for the public in 2024.AdvertisementThe liner ― which includes the biggest water park at sea, its own “Central Park,” eight “neighborhoods,” and 20 total decks ― has room for 5,610 passengers and 2,350 crew. It’s nearly 1,200 feet long and will weigh a projected 250,800 tons. Moving it is apparently the equivalent of trying to keep two of Toronto’s CN Towers afloat.Here’s the rendering of the boat that’s going around: The “Icon Of The Seas” sets sail in January 2024. 5610 passengers, 2350 crew members, 5 times larger and heavier than the Titanic, 19 floors with more than 40 bars, restaurants and bowling alleys. What a monstrosity! pic.twitter.com/igoQRUZ3nP— Ray Monk (@Raymodraco) July 9, 2023The cruise ship is an impressive feat of engineering, but on Twitter and TikTok, people weren’t focusing on that. Instead, many talked about how uneasy its size made them feel.Here’s a sampling of the scorn posted on Twitter:“This is human lasagna and the orcas are gonna FEAST”“That Icon of the Seas ship actually looks like hell on water. Just looking at the pictures gives me anxiety.” ″‘Five times larger and heavier than the Titanic’ is not a feature that makes anyone with sense want to get on board….”“Looking at that monstrosity of a cruise ship gives me anxiety. I cannot fathom being trapped on that in the middle of the ocean *shudder*” “I understand the physics of ships this size, but when I see them I simply don’t get the physics of ships this size. Also…holy biscuits is this thing terrible.”One person even quoted Revelations 13:1! (“And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns, and blasphemous names on its heads.”)It’s worth emphasizing here that the image going around the internet is a rendering. The “Icon of the Seas” looks considerably less trippy (and Candy Crush-colored, at least from this view) in a recent pic from a test run:Royal Caribbean InternationalLast month, Royal Caribbean’s “Icon of the Seas” successfully sailed the open ocean for the first time after completing its first sea trials in Turku, Finland, where it is under construction at the Meyer Turku shipyard.And it certainly sounds safe. Last month, the vessel sailed the open ocean for the first time and staffers spent four days testing the main engines, hull, brakes, steering system and other components.Still, if you were unnerved by that first pic, you clearly weren’t alone. It is an unnerving image, said Elisabeth Morray, a psychologist and VP of clinical operations at Alma, a mental health startup that helps therapists manage their practices and contract with insurers.Advertisement“As human beings, we are hard-wired to pay attention to our safety,” she told HuffPost. “We intuitively want to feel that we could escape from a threat if we needed to, and there are lots of identifiable threats to our safety that might be triggered by this image.”For instance, does this look like it would be stable on the constantly moving surface of the ocean? It’s no doubt structurally sound ― but the rendering looks like multiple Carvel children’s cakes balanced on top of each other, waiting to topple over in the Atlantic.Plus, there’s the foreknowledge we have of cruise ship incidents in the recent past: disease outbreaks, reports of assault, deadly accidents. And who could forget the infamous “poop cruise” in 2013, when Carnival Triumph passengers were strande …nnDiscussion:nn” ai_name=”RocketNews AI: ” start_sentence=”Can I tell you more about this article?” text_input_placeholder=”Type ‘Yes'”]
