Ship

A ship is a large buoyant watercraft. Ships are generally distinguished from boats based on size, shape and cargo or passenger capacity. Ships are used on lakes, seas,rivers,and oceans for a variety of activities, such as the transport of people or goods, fishing, entertainment, public safety, and warfare. Historically, a "ship" was a sailing vessel with at least three square-rigged masts and a full bowsprit.

In armed conflict and in daily life, ships have become an integral part of modern commercial and military systems. Fishing boats are used by millions of fishermen throughout the world. Military forces operate vessels for naval warfare and to transport and support forces ashore. Commercial vessels, nearly 35,000 in number, carried 7.4 billion tons of cargo in 2007. As of 2011, there are about 104,304 ships with IMO numbers in the world.

Ships were always a key in history's great explorations and scientific and technological development. Navigators such as Zheng He spread such inventions as the compass and gunpowder. Ships have been used for such purposes as colonization and the slave trade, and have served scientific, cultural, and humanitarian needs. After the 16th century, new crops that had come from and to the Americas via the European seafarers significantly contributed to the world population growth.Ship transport has shaped the world's economy into today's energy-intensive pattern.

Ship (disambiguation)

A ship is a large vessel that floats on water, specifically the ocean and the sea.

Ship or ships may also refer to:

  • Full rigged ship, a sailing vessel with three or more square rigged masts, as opposed to smaller or fore-and-aft rigged vessels
  • Shipping, basic process of transporting goods and cargo
  • Spaceship, is a vehicle, vessel or machine designed to fly in outer space.
  • Starship, spaceship designed for interstellar travel
  • Acronyms:

  • Seed Herbarium Image Project
  • SHIP1 (SH2-containing inositol phosphatase 1), sometimes simply called SHIP, an enzyme
  • Phosphatidylinositol-3,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase, an enzyme
  • SHIP (Separator for Heavy Ion reaction Products), a research instrument at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany
  • In the arts:

  • Ships (album) by Danielson
  • Ships (band), a Japanese band
  • "Ship", a song by Level 42 on the album Retroglide
  • "Ships" (song), a 1979 song by Ian Hunter sung by Barry Manilow on the album One Voice
  • The Ship (computer game), a 2006 first-person shooter computer game
  • Ship (comics)

    The fictional A.I. entity originally known as Ship has appeared in several incarnations in the Marvel Universe. At times controlled by both the X-Men and their enemies, the sentient A.I. has at times been installed in the core of a Celestial starship, two space stations, and a techno-organic being. It is not related to Star-Lord's "Ship".

    Fictional character biography

    Ancient history

    Ship's A.I. was created untold millennia ago by the Celestials as the operating system for a data collection device. The Celestials had genetically manipulated humanity, and they left the Ship in the area that would come to be known as Mongolia to monitor humanity's progress.

    Circa 1100 A.D., a Mongolian immortal known as Garbha-Hsien (later known as Saul), discovered the Ship and lived next to it while he researched its mysteries. Saul never attempted to enter the Ship.

    In time, the Egyptian immortal En Sabah Nur learned of Saul and sought him out as another immortal. In a confrontation, En Sabah Nur slew all of Saul's guards. Saul then sought to humble his fellow "forever-walker" by revealing the secret titanic vessel. Having had previous experience with futuristic technology due to his encounters with Rama-Tut, Nur attacked Saul and left the other immortal for dead and entered the Ship. He emerged later as a vastly changed being who now called himself Apocalypse.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    The Big Man

    by: Chubb Rock

    [Verse One]
    The bigger of the biggest made a hitlist
    Not a lot of people, but a sequel, so witness
    the evolution of a seed planted four years ago
    and now the offspring today is the new thing
    The people wanna jock but if they won't here's a quote:
    Jealousy has arisen but don't - sweat it
    And in this particular case - don't let it
    hold you back from pledging allegiance to this
    And your girl wants a kiss but I have my own miss
    on my side til the skeezer in me died
    Like the (?) to the John, the Crosby to the Bing
    the Dave is to the Benny and the Big Man is ready
    to take a stand for all big man-kind
    And I'm gonna succeed with the rhyme
    So potent that a consultant said that rappin rodents
    have two-thirds of my intelligence quotient and knowin
    just that, secures me from all the muskrats
    and my degree tells me I don't must rap
    But the fans of hundreds of grands know I slam
    Love the jams of the Big Man - chorus!
    "A big man!" (repeat 4X)
    {Uhh his lyrics are.. so extrordinary..}
    [Verse Two]
    The Big Man on the Campus want people to chant this
    and I mean this; if I have to I will get fiendish
    And you will be the main course of a mean dish:
    Scrub - Sucker a la Chubb
    The plate will be a test or your test of fate
    to see if you have any kind of heart, you fart
    I'm a soloist and knowin this you better grow an extra fist
    I'm not Razor Ruddock but you'll land on your buttock
    Back up move, you're dealin with a rudebwoy
    Raggamuffin with a funky somp'in
    Listen - Chubb is the one on a respect mission
    ignorin all that BS you're dishin
    out cause the man with the clout came forth
    to show who's the boss lyrical force
    (?) monarch to spark the plan
    for the Chubb's the Big Man - chorus!
    "A big man!" (repeat 4X)
    {Well I don't think that.. my lyrics are..
    that extrordinary but uhh..
    I do think that me and Howie do have a..
    diverse style of music..}
    [Verse Three]
    The Bigger Man used to be a trigger man
    Bang was the slang for the one man gang
    But now with a plan with a few called The A.T.E.E.M.
    Diggidy and the Swinga will paint the whole scene
    Paint the background first, that means we rehearse
    Exercise cardiovascular - and then the thirst
    will be quenched - the throats will be drenched
    with the finest wines when we dine
    Cause 1989 was an okay year
    I mean I lived through it - in 1990 I'm gonna do it
    Climb the mountain of the hits
    Put a #1 joint at the tip if it fits
    And if it is a size too small, yes y'all
    A new creation for the nation cause I'm here for the duration
    like the pilgrim village when they claimed this land
    Gave birth to the Big Man - chorus!
    {Chubb Rock is definitely coming out
    with a different style this year.. he's..}




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