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Just behind the bridge there are some pylons for what I guess is an elevated power transmission line. After the bridge goes down you can see the red flashing beacon of one pylon still on. Those pylons were protected from ship collisions with substantial barrier islands at the base. They're hexagonal concrete things visible on google maps. Not visible on google maps are any similar protective features around the Key Bridge pillars. The central span is held up between what resembles two large concrete A-frames, the foundations of which appears to have (had) no surrounding protective features all.
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Really wild how such a large piece of infrastructure can just cease to exist in ten seconds. I once lived in DC area and used that bridge many times. I always liked the approach from the West / DC side where the road comes in at an angle so you could see the monstrosity you're about to cross. Sad to know it's gone. RIP to the yellow vest dudes who were in those vehicles. I expect a WTYP infrastructure episode in the immediate future.
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Mar 26, 2024 10:19
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git apologist posted:was the captain vaxed? you're not asking the right questions. was the captain trans or soft on border issues?
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Mar 26, 2024 11:31
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Look at all that black smoke from the ship. Somebody on the bridge was awake and scrambling to fix the situation. The VDR bridge transcript is going to be an interesting read. This photo is from 2001. Such a unique approach coming in from the west side; "here's what your bridge toll is for, behold!".
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Mar 26, 2024 12:13
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Brogeoisie posted:That's why you have pilots. I don't understand how a ship like this didn't have pilots or redundant power systems. Feels like a massive failure on the shipping company do you mean tugs? pilots don't uh independently power the ships they're temporarily in charge of.
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Mar 26, 2024 12:16
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if he had gone a lil faster maybe the bridge would have ended up balancing on the container stack like a neat magic trick.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:11
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bolind posted:My armchair analysis: The bridge vehicle strobes are amber, more consistent with some kind of maintenance crew than cop cars. Also the cops would have been blocking the bridge from the nearest exits / turnoffs at both ends. Maybe the maintenance guys weren't on the frequency and the cops didn't get a call out to them.
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Mar 26, 2024 13:55
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smoobles posted:captain's goin to jail Singapore registration, he'll get caned first
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Mar 26, 2024 15:01
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maybe if we made things simpler and fabricated them locally out of stuff that could be sourced nearby and reused things instead of buying new things each year and generally didn't rely on buying things so much perhaps there wouldn't be so many bridge demolishing ships in the harbor.
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Mar 26, 2024 17:56
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Fishy Flip posted:Found some aftermath close-ups. looks like all empties. america is no longer the sex arse export giant it once was.
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Mar 26, 2024 18:53
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listen, we can settle this without insurance getting involved. Here's 100K from the captain's safe, we ok?
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Mar 27, 2024 02:06
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GolfHole posted:is the boat ok the bit of roadway draped across its bow looks like it needs resurfacing.
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Mar 27, 2024 04:34
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Chief McHeath posted:i’ve got a deadline to get 40,000 sex arses to the distribution center in Harrisburg by EOD and they’re all stuck in the harbor now god damnit! During the great Berlin Blockade our fearless grandfathers managed to get critical supplies through with an improvised air bridge. Is this generation up to the challenge?
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Mar 27, 2024 14:44
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tractor man posted:i heard the bridge fell because of wokeism? anyone else heard this? the bridge pillars was made from the flimsiest pronouns you can imagine.
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Mar 27, 2024 15:43
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mllaneza posted:I like that they got the easily-checkable fact wrong. The ship did in fact have a harbor pilot aboard. Untrue. It had two of them.
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Mar 27, 2024 19:35
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Hazo posted:Elon is push-notifying posts like this, from insane right-wing q conspiracy loons but it's true. The US has effectively been cut in twain by this precision attack by singaporean chinamen. It is no longer possible to transport hazmat materials across the Mason-Dixon. Unless you take a detour and use the northern ringway loop. It's 10 miles longer than the now-interrupted southern loop via I-695.
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Mar 27, 2024 19:47
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The ship's crew is supposedly all indian, but the registration is Singaporean so probably officers speak a rich mixture of Singlish and subcontinent English with beautiful rolling "R"s. Legible enough for most americans. Below deck probably some of the crew mostly prefer to use Punjabi or Hindi.
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Mar 28, 2024 08:02
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it seems kind of dangerous how the ships can just move freely any which way they please inside the harbor. maybe they should be put on hidden underwater rails like the steam boat in disneyland.
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Mar 28, 2024 15:04
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Athas posted:I can't believe all of USAs cargo traffic went over a single bridge in Baltimore. It may be not all lost though. The Lewis & Clark inland expedition sent a missive via friendly injun couriers, and in the hinterland territories north and west of Baltimore they have apparently uncovered a hitherto unknown alternate I-695 route.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:01
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100 tons tho! that's like 4 full shipping containers.
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Mar 28, 2024 20:48
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Serak posted:Those electrical pylon barriers are not nearly big enough to have protected them from a ship of this size, and installing something on the bridge pylons that would have would be an immense structure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ9lhqqxpo0 this guy bridges and if he's right, Mayland DOT is at least partially culpable for being neglectful in not installing barrier protections for such infrastructure. Was it ineptitude or a dysfunctional state or city government unable to secure funding, or did they not even have commissioned studies done for such upgrades? Surely a fading empire if true.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:16
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maybe each shipping container should be its own ocean crossing amphibian autonomous vehicle, have they thought about that????
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Apr 1, 2024 09:14
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Log082 posted:Anyway, I went down to tradepoint atlantic while I was visiting family over the weekend and grabbed a few pictures. This one turned out the best: the bridge still looks terrible TBH. LordArgh posted:didn't know elon musk posted on the forums what gave it away?  I didn't mention rocket powered or bullet-proof even once.
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Apr 1, 2024 15:35
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wesleywillis posted:Hey Elon, you think that a Cyber LOL Of course not. The thing is hopelessly beached and the hull looks compromised. But I bet I could grift the Biden admin for another cool stack of billions by announcing a sky crane company copy-pasting JPL's thing they used for landing the Mars rovers except with like electric turbine engines. Hell, I'll call them hyperjets or skyLoops or some poo poo. I mean the fools bought my loving cartoon starship as a component of the Artemis moon mission, LOL! Total utter clown admin. I can claim the sky cranes are super necessary lifters needed to peel the containers off the ship and also lift bridge components in place much faster than you know the ordinary floating cranes they'll have to use eventually. But I'll have fun in the meantime burning $$$$$.
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Apr 1, 2024 18:37
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Fog? That's what the government wants you to think in actuality grey goo nanobots.
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Apr 1, 2024 20:31
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The Lone Badger posted:It’s a fixed seed. The bridge would still collapse. that's superdeterminism at work. it's depressing in a way because there is no better timeline. all of experience is a 4D crystal. what we perceive as choices and decisions in reality amounts to nothing more than an endless cascade of causes and effects slowly unfolding.
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Apr 3, 2024 08:06
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They've already removed some of the wreckage and there's now a channel open for canoes and dinghys to pass. The port is practically open again.
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Apr 3, 2024 17:24
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maybe hazardous cargo doesn't need to cross anyway. Couldn't they just keep that hazardous stuff on one side or the other?
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Apr 3, 2024 22:13
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Vegetable posted:This makes me think the solution should be for bridges to have cannons so they can sink wayward ships
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GABA ghoul posted:So if the crew is found liable then they would have to pay for the bridge rebuilding out of their own pockets? 1 billion hours of community service, to be paid over 3 generations.
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Apr 16, 2024 11:20
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I hope they decide to just turn the crossing into a scenic ferry route instead where you can have a margarita on the top deck and you know take a quiet minute to enjoy the moment.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:18
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Bad Purchase posted:the bridge was in this country illegally the bridge was federal overreach.
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Apr 16, 2024 16:29
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wesleywillis posted:I heard that one of the janitors on the boat smoked a joint a couple years ago so it was probably him that caused it. The MSM has been completely silent on the outcome of the boat's drug test too.
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Apr 16, 2024 18:05
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goatface posted:They refuse to release the 3D printers with fumes safe for a studio because they know it would shut down global commerce. it's already possible to 3D print sex arses, so I'm not sure why we even need these boats anymore.
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Apr 16, 2024 20:07
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dsf posted:CONFIRMED: the bridge was vaxxed MRNA shedding caused the shidding of the boat's engines.
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Why not just get a hover conversion done to your lame bridge-dependent ground car? It's TYOOL 2024 for gently caress's sake.
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