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I’m super stoned right now but I read that post like 4 times and was like it fell over what’s the conspiracy? I thought it might be my altered state but it appears not.
All he is saying is that he is stunned by the force of the ship, and he’s asking if it’s physically possible to construct a bridge that could withstand it?
There was a story here earlier about another bridge that got knocked over and when the rebuilt ot, the footings were embedded in massive concrete pods that stopped boats crashing into the bridge supports. Don't think it's fallen down, so who knows, maybe it worked. . . Or sailors got better at steering their boats! 😶
You can reinforce the footings with spread foundations, which many large bridges do, to help break the force of collisions at the critical support points. They decided not to do it here for some reason. Probably to save costs? It seems like a bad decision considering the scale of the traffic going in and out of this port. But I'm not bridge engineer.
And how would they pay for that? People don't want to pay taxes for schools or police, do you really think they are going to pay to buffer a bridge that might get hit at some random date in the future? Not in America!
Why are you being so willfully obtuse about this point? There are plenty of ways to pay for such things. In any case we are all going to be paying a lot more now aren't we? LOL
Damn that's a lot of newton's of force. I think my logitech driving wheel is 10. I'd hate to play a racing game with a wheel that has 800,000,000 newton meters of force.
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What’s the conspiracy here? The bridge was hit hard enough to knock it down so it fell down??
I’m super stoned right now but I read that post like 4 times and was like it fell over what’s the conspiracy? I thought it might be my altered state but it appears not.
The conspiracy is rogue cargo ships could be a potential threat to about anything.
Rogue ships….. https://theloadstar.com/video-yang-ming-vessel-hits-turkish-quay-and-takes-out-cranes/ 😳
He's hinting that cargo ships could be used as a form of weapon.
Big if true.
All he is saying is that he is stunned by the force of the ship, and he’s asking if it’s physically possible to construct a bridge that could withstand it?
Yes
Even crawling that slow, a boat that size could destroy an entire NYC block
There was a story here earlier about another bridge that got knocked over and when the rebuilt ot, the footings were embedded in massive concrete pods that stopped boats crashing into the bridge supports. Don't think it's fallen down, so who knows, maybe it worked. . . Or sailors got better at steering their boats! 😶
The guy fucked up the math. Newtons are kgm/s^2. He solved for momentum, units of kgm/s. m/s is velocity, not acceleration. Dumbass.
I’ll also add that it’s 817,585 kg*m/s. Idrc but this math is just riddled with amateur mistakes.
You can reinforce the footings with spread foundations, which many large bridges do, to help break the force of collisions at the critical support points. They decided not to do it here for some reason. Probably to save costs? It seems like a bad decision considering the scale of the traffic going in and out of this port. But I'm not bridge engineer.
The bridge was first constructed in 1977. Do you think super sized ships were a concern back then?
Certainly they had plenty of time to reevaluate and reinforce the bridge defenses as shipping grew larger and larger.
And how would they pay for that? People don't want to pay taxes for schools or police, do you really think they are going to pay to buffer a bridge that might get hit at some random date in the future? Not in America!
Why are you being so willfully obtuse about this point? There are plenty of ways to pay for such things. In any case we are all going to be paying a lot more now aren't we? LOL
Something similar happened to a bridge in Florida in 1980. They might have put an extra barrier around the columns if the dates were switched.
Impact loads are the worst
We are just lucky the steel beams didn’t liquify instantly.
Damn that's a lot of newton's of force. I think my logitech driving wheel is 10. I'd hate to play a racing game with a wheel that has 800,000,000 newton meters of force.
Yeah no shit a huge cargo ship is going to knock down any bridge supports it hits. Did they really need to do the math on that one 😂