OT: Bridge Collapse in Baltimore
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Well except for Rt 28.
gee, and here I just thought it was an ill maintained ship from Asia that lost power and could not correct course and never thought it would go full scale Patrick Swayze Red Dawn in less than 48 hours... As for me, WOLVERINES !!!!
btw, if your potential, albeit Jack Ryan'ish, theory is correct, American blood has already been spilled over a bridge...
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It's more than that. It has to do with the design, and neither of the bridges you referenced were built to take a hit from a 3 million pound shipping vessel. I don't think the Brooklyn Bridge's rigid stone facade was going to hold up either. Rigid designs don't handle large impacts well.
There are a lot of things that can happen, and you can't design against everything. If you did, nothing would ever get built.
Thank God that it turns out the floating pair of wing stained Steeler Zubaz pants that McNulty found floating in a Patapsco were not his...
Oh yeah. But it will certainly be built under budget and on time.
I don't think people understand how big that ship is, if you stood it up it'd be around 150 feet taller than the US Steel Building, its taking down whatever it hits.
It sounds to me like there are possible solutions to limit this from happening again, as referenced in the tweet posted previously.
There's always a solution to limit anything from happening, but you can't design against everything.
pittdan77
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Or how heavy it is. Once it had any forward momentum, the engines were the only thing that were going to turn it or stop it.
Well I guess we will all have to buy electric cars from now on......what's that Darrell, they are most made in China!
Maybe in Baltimore but not in Tblisi. Golden opportunity to get back to a major tournament but went out with a wimper in penalties to Georgia 🇬🇪.
Everything is the beginning of WWIII. Honestly, I truly believe people are looking forward to it just for the entertainment value and that's why you hear all the time about how WWIII has already begun or will begin like next week. Some people crave chaos. BTW, heard a great quote. Something like I'm not sure what weapons will be used in WWIII but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Bingo. Freaking look at this thing. It is a floating city block with a dozen 8 story buildings stacked on top of it. Absolutely no bridge was going to survive a direct hit from this monster.
pittdan77
Athletic Director
It's very easy to break down from an engineering perspective; something very big ran into something very small. Small thing fell down.
The reason why you don't hack ships and start knocking down bridges is because you also have ships and bridges to lose. You think China wants us to hack one of their ships? Or their dams? That's why they hack us in ways that we can't really respond to on a tit for tat basis (e.g., stealing technology, subverting elections, reducing trust in banking, etc.).
Ships lost propulsion and crashed before the advent of hacking. As I mentioned yesterday, sometimes bad things just happen. People should use Occam's Razor as the starting point for analysis before huffing from Alex Jones's lunch bag of paint vapors.
Bingo. Freaking look at this thing. It is a floating city block with a dozen 8 story buildings stacked on top of it. Absolutely no bridge was going to survive a direct hit from this monster.
I think we all understand how massive cargo ships can be. It just seems to me that the bridge is kind of a sitting duck if a ship that size veers off course. In that pic above I see power lines that are protected by some sort of wall. I am not saying that this barriers would have stopped the ship, but it seems to be that there should be something there. When they rebuild a new bridge at the site, I bet we get barriers or bumpers of some kind.
I was on floor 10 of a hotel along the Savannah river and when I looked out my window, I was eye level with the top third of the container load. That is like a 12-15 story building.
Bingo. Freaking look at this thing. It is a floating city block with a dozen 8 story buildings stacked on top of it. Absolutely no bridge was going to survive a direct hit from this monster.
You are drastically underestimating the weight of a fully loaded container ship. You are missing a few zeros. This is a 250 million pound ship.
You are correct. I saw or heard that number thrown around somewhere and didn't put any thought into it.
