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MasterBaiter said:
An official also said that the Key Bridge was fracture-critical, which means "if a member fails that would likely cause a portion of, or the entire bridge, to collapse, there's no redundancy".

NTSB board chair Jennifer Homendy also noted that according to the Federal Highway Administration, there are close to 17,500 fracture-critical bridges in the US


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My god 17 thousand bridges . Wtf . How fucked is your infrastructure? Literally the whole countrys infrastructure is one sabotage away from falling apart.
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To be fair I would be surprised if more than a dozen bridges worldwide could survive getting rammed by a fully loaded cargo ship. Saying that 17k bridges around the USA are vulnerable to a similar collapse to Baltimore isn't really a big deal once you account for the fact that most of those likely aren't even on bodies of water where a ship like the one that crashed could even get to much less sail.
 
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The faggot "president" with two other faggot presidents at a "grassroots" fundraiser with millionaire donors and host Stephen Colbert, one of the faggot jesuits who ruins Catholicism.
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Flashback to Joepedo playing golf:
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More than anything about Joepedo's image, I really hate this lie that he's physically capable of doing anything beyond walking. And he's so fried in his pedo brain he thinks he's still Jack Lalanne.


Meanwhile true Orange King consoling the people:

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And in breaking from normal decorum, some liberal hack federal judge goes on CNN with the tranny lady to say "plz no bully" judges because the judges are just doing their jobs, there's no bias, honest. Another faggot.

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General Emílio Médici said:
To be fair I would be surprised if more than a dozen bridges worldwide could survive getting rammed by a fully loaded cargo ship. Saying that 17k bridges around the USA are vulnerable to a similar collapse to Baltimore isn't really a big deal once you account for the fact that most of those likely aren't even on bodies of water where a ship like the one that crashed could even get to much less sail.
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I suppose we could compare them to bridges like in Russia and China and see if they would survive a similar scenario
 
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I suppose we could compare them to bridges like in Russia and China and see if they would survive a similar scenario
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Most won't. The main key would likely be age.

The one in Baltimore was pretty old, almost exactly 50 years. It was built just before a big increase in ship size and before a number or rules and new paradigms in engineering were introduced and as such it really was a worst case scenario happening.
 
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Two high-speed military cargo ships are stuck in the Port of Baltimore following Tuesday morning's collapse of the 1.6-mile-long Francis Scott Key Bridge. The major US East Coast port has been paralyzed for several days as the bridge collapse prevents inbound and outbound vessel traffic along the harbor's channel.

Using the automatic identification system, or AIS, data that tracks commercial vessels, three bulk carriers, two general cargo ships, one vehicle carrier, one tanker, and four Ready Reserve Force vessels (RRF), along with the container ship Dali that struck the bridge, are trapped in the harbor, according to the shipping blog gCaptain.

The three bulk carriers include:

  • The Liberian-flagged JY River, owned by JIADE INTERNATIONAL SHIP and managed by WAH KWONG SHIP MANAGEMENT HK of Hong Kong.
  • The Thailand-flagged Phatra Naree, owned by PRECIOUS STONES SHIPPING LTD and managed by PRECIOUS SHIPPING PCL of Thailand.
  • The Portuguese-flagged Klara Oldendorff, owned and managed OLDENDORFF CARRIERS GMBH & CO of Germany.
The vehicle carrier is:

  • The Swedish-flagged Carmen, owned by WALL RO/RO AB and managed by WALLENIUS MARINE AB of Sweden.
The general cargo ships include:

  • The French-flagged Saimaagracht, owned by REDERIJ SAIMAAGRACHT and managed by SPLIETHOFF'S BEVRACHTINGS BV of the Netherlands.
  • The Panama-flagged Balsa 94, owned by EASTERN CAPITAL MARINE INC and managed by HIONG GUAN NAVEGACION CO LTD of Hong Kong.
The tanker is:

  • The Marshall Islands-flagged Palanca Rio, owned by MINSHENG RUIYANG TIANJIN SHPG and managed by PUMA ENERGY SUPPLY & TRADING of Singapore.
The US Maritime Administration (MARAD) Ready Reserve Force vessels include:

  • The Cape Washington, a Cape W Class roll-on/roll-off vessel.
  • The Gary I. Gordon, a Gordon-class roll-on/roll-off vessel.
  • The SS Antares (T-AKR-294), a Algol-class fast sealift vehicle cargo ship.
  • The SS Denebola (T-AKR-294), another Algol-class fast sealift vehicle cargo ship.
According to the military blog The War Zone (TWZ), Algol class vessels are "some of the fastest cargo vessels of their general size anywhere in the world." These ships are part of the RRF, a subset of vessels within MARAD's National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF) that provide surge sealift capability to the Pentagon for overseas conflicts.
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The Biden admin is the gift that keeps on giving.
 
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A three judge panel of the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals has overruled a federal district judge 2-1 on the issue of whether Pennsylvanians and the state of Pennsylvania have to awkshoolly follow Pennsylvania state law
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As it should be. As far as I'm concerned, failure to enforce these laws should be fundamentally illegal in of itself - They were drafted, voted on, and passed by elected officials exercising the power granted by the people - Failure to then enforce the rules that were agreed upon by representatives of the electorate is itself disenfranchising the electorate. You can't just say "No we chose not to act" on it. If the electorate wants the law gone, they can push for their official to do so. And I'm fully aware the system isn't perfect, bad laws will get in and good ones will get booted, but "I might lose some of the time" Isn't a reason to completely strip your presumed power from the system entirely, which is what selective ignorance allows.

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The Biden admin is the gift that keeps on giving.
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To be fair, nobody realistically expected an entire bridge to get redeemed by a ship who's resident Pajeets didn't know how generators worked. This is one of those situations where I really don't think the Biden admin could have done much to avoid it, shit happens.

Now if the cleanup isn't expedited, you can blame them for that, they've got the power to bring in significant assets that could easily make it passible, quickly.
 
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Drag-on Knight 91873 said:
It's Baltimore. That money's just going to disappear faster than the money in COVID insurance scams.
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Don't even have to send money, send the military. The only part they need to deal with is clearing access to the port, and all you need for that is salvage ships out to get rid of most of the wreckage, maybe clean up the channel dredge a bit. The Navy has salvage ships on the roster, they can do it. That right there will alleviate most of the national concern of trapped vessels and dead ports. The PITA of the missing bridge can be someone else`s grift.

If they don't do that much, I'm going to consider them retarded.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Don't even have to send money, send the military. The only part they need to deal with is clearing access to the port, and all you need for that is salvage ships out to get rid of most of the wreckage, maybe clean up the channel dredge a bit. The Navy has salvage ships on the roster, they can do it. That right there will alleviate most of the national concern of trapped vessels and dead ports. The PITA of the missing bridge can be someone else`s grift.

If they don't do that much, I'm going to consider them retarded.
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I imagine the Navy is dealing with the same competency crisis that everyone is. The military isn't a magic wand anymore and hasn't been for a couple decades.
 
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With every antic the Biden administration pulls, I'm forced to unironically believe this meme:

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The last stand going from Hillary loyalist to neutral on both parties to finally feeling forced to support Trump is the kind of heel turn character development great novels are made out of
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
To be fair I would be surprised if more than a dozen bridges worldwide could survive getting rammed by a fully loaded cargo ship. Saying that 17k bridges around the USA are vulnerable to a similar collapse to Baltimore isn't really a big deal once you account for the fact that most of those likely aren't even on bodies of water where a ship like the one that crashed could even get to much less sail.
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How they get destroyed doesn't matter, "Fracture-Critical" simply means that if one part breaks the whole entire bridge collapses. That being said the number is hilariously inflated for other reasons. It doesn't say bridges over water... it says Bridges. This includes things like Overpass bridges which are usually tiny and have absolutely no way of not being Fracture-Critical.
 
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How they get destroyed doesn't matter, "Fracture-Critical" simply means that if one part breaks the whole entire bridge collapses. That being said the number is hilariously inflated for other reasons. It doesn't say bridges over water... it says Bridges. This includes things like Overpass bridges which are usually tiny and have absolutely no way of not being Fracture-Critical.
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Fearmongering faggots are only doing this to look like they're doing something.
 
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Gehenna said:
How they get destroyed doesn't matter, "Fracture-Critical" simply means that if one part breaks the whole entire bridge collapses. That being said the number is hilariously inflated for other reasons. It doesn't say bridges over water... it says Bridges. This includes things like Overpass bridges which are usually tiny and have absolutely no way of not being Fracture-Critical.
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I don't like how they're saying "the bridge collapsed." To me, that sounds like the bridge collapsed on its own. And what difference would "fracture critical" make if a large cargo ship rammed one of two, three supports on a bridge?
 
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