We tend to think of the things (and people) around us that we trust — the reliable things, that is — as inflexible, strong, never yielding, fixed, steady.
The things that we should trust are the ones that can bend just enough — and spring back — to handle the stresses put on them.
Originally shared by +Asbjørn Grandt:
Watch how a large container ship flexes in a storm, they have to , else they'd break.
And Skagen Maersk ( http://www.fleetmon.com/en/vessels/Skagen_Maersk_38591 ) isn't even one of the largest ships.
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While I understand the need for flexibility I'd still be lying if I didn't say that would scare the shit out of me.
Oh, yes.
+Les Jenkins
Then imagine the flexing on one of their 397 meter long E and Triple-E class vessels. Theough this one here is far from being a midget, at 346 meters length.