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Are you considering a career in engineering?
 | What will the inventions of tomorrow be? What will become the things that we feel we cannot live without?
You can rest assured that engineers somewhere are already working on bringing these ideas to reality. |
For instance…
The World's Biggest Ship!
Imagine a 1.6 kilometre stretch of 25-storey buildings in any major city, and then imagine it floating on water. No cruise ship that has ever been built can compare to the massive Freedom Ship. At 1,317 metres long, 221 metres wide and 103 metres tall, the ship is taller than the length of a football field, wider than two football fields put together and four times longer than any cruise ship currently sailing the oceans of the world.
Weighing 2.7 million tons, this juggernaut will need an enormous amount of engine power to push it through the water – 100 diesel engines generating 3700 horsepower to be precise. The cost of each engine alone will be in the vicinity of $1million.
It will require 15,000 crew, and can carry 50,000 residents and 20,000 visitors – of course living space comes with a hefty price tag, up to $11million worth of luxury. But as available land becomes scarcer, the Freedom Ship is the floating city of the future.