Posted on 03/28/2024 8:20:42 PM PDT by bitt
At least not if it’s named for that racist Francis Scott Key.
Question. Assuming it was an accident, who designs a bridge other a single point of catastrophic failure? I am not an engineer, but that does not seem right.
I’m not going to get into the possibility of terrorism, but at the time this bridge was built, container ships had a carrying capacity of under 5,000 tons, or so. This ship had a tonnage of 150,0000 tonnes.
It’s also age. This bridge was about 50 years and near the end of its useful life just from wear and tear.
https://youtu.be/-UkNatTiQ8g?si=iBDyijqKvboMOiEU
They may not build a pier in Gaza, but they are capable. The military can build a bridge.
Competency crisis, ie dumbing down of America.
That brings dye never serve much of a purpose. It went from nowhere to nowhere.
It is easier to just drive through Baltimore or drive around it to the West
Bfl
Holding with the doomsday folks; rule of “not letting a tragedy go to waste” an ancient bridge that should’ve been taken out 50 times already by various Serb captains piloting Singaporean ships is DEI end of American empire.
“I know longer recognize America without massive small town manufacturing.”
Manufacturing provided a pathway to a middle class lifestyle for many poorAmericans with limited education. A high school graduate from a dirt poor farm family could go to work in a factory as an unskilled floor sweeper or material handler, be trained to run equipment and eventually rise into management Even the skilled labor jobs provided a middle class living. All it took was ambition, hard work, common sense and some intelligence. A manufacturing plant in a small town also generated middle class jobs in the local community where the workers spent their wages. Trickle down economics was real.
Drive through these towns off the interstate highways today and see the devastating economic impact of three decades of purposeful deindustrialization.
dont worry peter butt will get on it when he gets off it
Thanks for the post/ping; comments
Throw in 'bridge engineers' getting their degrees from WOKE colleges and you've got a blueprint for disaster...
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China will rebuild the bridge as part of their Belt and Road initiative, taking control of the entire port that is outside of Washington, DC.
-PJ
Sure it will!
They rebuild them all the time when they fall down in California from earthquakes.
Sounds like what happens to a nation that has turned its back on GOD.
yup
Beijing is building roads & bridges. America should take notice ... American Trucking Associations https://www.trucking.org › news-insights › beijing-buildi... For years, Beijing has been making investment in transportation and trade infrastructure — within its borders and also beyond — a top priority....Thirty years ago, there were no highways in China. Today, its national highway network spans more 88,000 miles — more than any other country in the world. And they are not slowing down: since 2011, the Chinese have built 6,000 miles of new highway every year.
There are [2019] 178 million daily crossings on over 47,000 structurally deficient U.S. bridges.
America’s trucking industry knows what’s at stake. We move 10.77 billion tons of freight every year — a task made ever-more challenging by the atrocious condition of our country’s roadways and bridges — and that tonnage is projected to grow by 27% over the next decade - https://www.trucking.org/news-insights/beijing-building-roads-bridges-america-should-take-notice
The US Turns To China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSQAqMDi1yQ
May 23, 2023 This 15-mile, $6.7B bridge is a symbol of China’s ambitions, and its problems.. Even in a land known for gargantuan, record-breaking infrastructure, this project is turning heads. At 15 miles long (24 kilometers), eight lanes wide and featuring artificial islands and an undersea tunnel, China’s $6.7 billion Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge is nothing if not ambitious. To much fanfare in the country’s state media, the bridge’s builders recently claimed a new world record by paving in a single day more than 243,200 square feet (22,600 square meters) of asphalt, the equivalent of more than 50 basketball courts.
Yet strange as it may sound, this is not the world’s longest sea bridge. That honor belongs to its 34-mile long neighbor, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge – just 20 miles away. ...Like its sister bridge in Hong Kong, when the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge opens to traffic next year after eight years of construction,
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When Deng Xiaoping arrived at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington in January 1979, his country was just emerging from a long revolutionary deep freeze. No one knew much about this 5-foot-tall Chinese leader. He had suddenly reappeared on the scene after twice being cashiered by Mao, who famously described him as “a needle inside a ball of cotton.” But in 1979 he knew exactly what he wanted: better relations with the U.S. He and President Jimmy Carter appeared to be serious about resolving differences.
- https://www.chinafile.com/library/nyrb-china-archive/china-strikes-back
On January 1, 1979, the US officially switched diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China (ROC), or Taiwan, to the PRC. In announcing that decision two weeks earlier, president Jimmy Carter said the historic change he was announcing “will be of great long‐term benefit to the peoples of both our country and China.”
https://asiatimes.com/2019/05/does-us-regret-its-past-china-engagement/
President Bill Clinton talks with former President Jimmy Carter as former President Gerald Ford looks on, at a China trade event.
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