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Kind of an aside, but I had no idea that concrete ships were a thing. Not ships carrying concrete, but ships made of actual reinforced concrete, like a building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYLBPg56TA
Britain tried ships made of ice and sawdust!
pykrete is amazing, did they actually build any ships though?
From what I remember they built a boathouse out of it in Canada and it stayed afloat for a good while.
that's very neat!