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But Vietnam was invaded, A Sino-centric endemic cultural erasure, Leaving Red River with but square-rigged China-junks for navigation.

Or send a message with a telegraph, or climb the rigging of a square-rigged ship?

Large numbers of people used to be really into horses, square-rigged sailing ships, steamboats...

I'm familiar with square-rigged cargo vessels of around 60ft in the UK that were crewed by 2.

An AC-72 might be fastest upwind, but a square-rigged ship definitely isn't.

Similarly, I suspect the claim that they can sail closer to the wind than conventional sailing vessels is in comparison to square-rigged ships.

Gotheburg is square-rigged which can barely sail upwind.

No one is planning to build a square-rigged panamax container ship, but there are several groups that are in fact building modern sailing vessels specifically designed for short-haul cargo traffic.

> The main reasons square-rigged ships fell out of fashion, as far as I know, are mostly logistically.

In the tall-ship era of square-rigged vessels, wearing ship caused far less wear-and-tear on your rigging and was something you did to be more cautious or if your boat was far from a shipyard.

Bitcoins can only be as evil as cars, guns, LEDs, pin-and-tumbler locks, trusted computers, square-rigged ships, Jacquard looms, and enriched uranium.

In such cases the date of delivery could be guessed with some precision, though a square-rigged vessel, if it did not employ a steam tug, could take a long and unpredictable time to cover even fifty miles.

Well said, and I just want to add some detail about how square-rigged ships are able to sail close-hauled: They typically (or maybe always?) have "staysails", which run fore-and-aft between the masts, which works mostly like the main triangular sail you think of with a simple sailboat (with the exception that, as far as I know, these staysails aren't on a boom that can change its angle relative to the ship).

He warned that "the summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate," yet we still relied on systems from "the days of square-rigged ships." He criticized indexing as "artificial" and noted that it forced information into "only one place," making retrieval cumbersome.