42 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 26 Mar
Terrible news. I have crossed that bridge a few times.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cascdr 26 Mar
Praying for all the people hurt by this. Hoping the damage is minimal.
This looks a LOT like a cyber attack:
- Vessel in idle, on safe path
- Lights go out temporarily
- Lights come back on (looks like control/OS reset), black smoke erupting from flue
- Hard turn toward the bridge column
- Lights go out after picking up speed
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @026180d3a3 26 Mar
Guess the key would have been better construction...
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @orthzar 26 Mar
The container ship weighs tens of thousands of giga-tons. No bridge pylons could withstand a hit form such a vessel. Rather, the bridge needed additional barriers further out from the pylons to gradually slow down the ship. But I'm not sure that enough such barriers could have fit in the area around the bridge.
Moreover, this is a failure to restrict the weight of ships allowed in the vicinity of the bridge (analagous to restricting height of ships in the vicinity of the bridge). But the governments responsible for such an oversight will not suffer because of this. Instead, the Federal government will bail out the local/state governments for this failure. There's a club, and the victims of this collapse weren't in it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @026180d3a3 26 Mar
Clearly. The new goal in construction is to count on some piece being targeted. The goal then is to try to contain it to an individual piece.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @draoi 26 Mar
Tragic. Hoping my friend in Baltimore is okay.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @hn OP 26 Mar
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Signal312 26 Mar
Wonder how long shipping in Baltimore will be completely blocked? That's huge.
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