Although... no bowling alley on a cargo ship.
Although... no bowling alley on a cargo ship.
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People are saying this?
You can see the boat crumpled the bridge like a piece of foil. It can obviously do it.
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People are crazy. People claim planes didn't hit the twin towers.
And in both cases, there are the "the planes/boat didn't do it alone" people.
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Lisa's Reverse Vampires.
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It was full of cargo at the time, right?
Even without it, it would have pulverized that bridge.
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Yeah it was over 100,000 tons going at around 8 knots. Not exactly high speed, but think of the momentum of something that's 100,000 tons.
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Oh yes... Right here on Lemmy some person said they should just drop some heavy concrete blocks near the bridge bases to stop the ship ...
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No, they said they should add them to deflect the ship away from the pylons.
Fenders are common on modern bridge designs and work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_protection_systems
Were you the person who was downvoted for constantly arguing that nothing could be done despite being given lots of information otherwise?
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That's basically what a "dolphin" is and you can build them arbitrarily large. The only reason this bridge wasn't retrofitted with adequate protection was money. As with any large-scale disaster, there are multiple failures that lead to the incident. The boat is clearly to blame, but so is the bridge protection system.
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I've seen videos of much smaller ships running aground, and they manage to win against the earth itself for a considerable distance before they stop. Some rebar and concrete pylons aren't going to cut it.
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Bunker fuel can't melt steel arches.
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Idiots... You don't have to "bring down the bridge"with the ship - the ship just had to help one key support fail enough to collapse and then the bridge will bring itself down from the stress.
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Captions log how the fuck did we crash into water and floating towards a fucking bridge
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Hey it's XianJaneway
Used to follow her back on twitter.
Is she on mastodon?
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I always just imagine looking down the 100m track and doubling or tripling that. Or in this case, if you've been to one before, looking down a quarter mile drag strip.
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We need more AI charaters
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need a banana
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It's a huge amount of mass that was in motion. Who is disagreeing that it could take out a bridge? Also, bridges aren't usually designed to take so much force from that angle.
People are claiming it was a terrorist attack and such. Unsurprisingly, mostly on Newsmax and Fox News.
If this were a terrorist attack we'd have had a group release a statement claiming to have been done by them to begin with. The whole point of terrorism is to enact political change through the threat of coordinated acts of violence against the civilian population and infrastructure. These conservative clowns always want to think they're under attack to promote draconian laws to protect our "freedoms".
That doesn't surprise me. I could see something like this being done in a terrorist attack. Of course, I wait for the evidence, and don't speculate wildly and publicly.
I've seen plenty of people not assuming a conspiracy, but instead believing shitty construction is to blame.
Clearly these people have never tried moving furniture before. It's not moving fast, but once things start going wrong a couch can and will easily push you through drywall.
Andrew Sex Trafficer Tate said it, and people are parroting him.
But aren't people saying that almost all saying they intentionally steered the boat into the support not that it was controlled demolition or something?
Not everyone even begins to comprehend the relationship between mass, motion, momentum and energy between a failed education and never having to use it in decades.
A fully loaded 1300' ship, that weighs an absolute fuckton, drifts into a concrete and steel post holding up a heavy ass bridge. Said support column is engineered for holding up the heavy bridge and is not designed to be run into by a heavy ass ship. The heavy ass ship hit the column at 1:30 in the morning, aka it was dark out. Not sure why it's too much to comprehend to these people that the simple explanation is that someone fucked up real bad.
The ‘someone’ is likely the management company cheaping out on repairs and maintenance, since as of now it seems like the captain of the ship did everything they could to stop it from happening (dropping anchor, trying to steer but being unable to from the power outage), but there’s only so much you can do about that amount of mass in motion.
If an absolute fuckton is 100,000 tons, then yes, it indeed weighed an absolute fuckton.
Also the ship lost power, they radioed for tugs a minute and a half later, started dropping the anchor a minute after that. Radioed a mayday a minute after that. If you look at the video you can see smoke coming out of the exhaust indicating they were trying to get the engines going again. Just before hitting the pier you can see the ship started turning away, but it was to late.
Every indication is that it's an accident. But conspiracies are going to spread because it's what people like I guess.
Have you seen americans argue about 9/11?
Avoid watching Americans argue whenever possible, including myself. 😅