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The internet is plagued by "obvious questions" asked by people too lazy to investigate on their own behalf.
If you know you know nothing about a subject, why think you have anything to contribute to discussion? Why not go and read about it first? Otherwise you're just wallowing in that ignorance.
However, today I have seeing a load of false-flag type / fake incident posts claiming that there is no chance that a container ship of that size could generate enough force to damage a bridge...
Strewth.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
There are already two tunnels crossing the inlet, no need for a ferry system. However you aren’t allowed to transport hazardous materials through tunnels because, you know, safety, so you need bridges also
The cargo was there in the first place because a dodgy Russian shipping company went bankrupt, but instead of safely disposing of the fertiliser cargo or indeed selling it off, Instead the local Lebanon port authorities dumped it into a derelict warehouse alongside all sorts of other potentially hazardous materials including ammunition and fireworks (really you could not make this up) , and left it there for 6 years - thereby creating a time bomb.
At some point during that 6 years, someone in the port needed to do something with what is plainly known to be dangerous cargo, other than sitting on their ass.
But we are off topic.
I can't find the statistics for the bridge, but it wouldn't surprise me if the mass of the ship is considerably greater than the bridge. You just have to look at the aerial photos to see the relative sizes.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The internet is, indeed, plagued but by people who, because they no doubt feel safe within its anonymity, give themselves permission to be rude and unkind to others. Your first verbal attack on this member was disgusting. No other word for it.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Nonsense.
If people actually researched before doing anything at all the world would be in a far better state.
also there is history here. In brief, Rocker often makes comments, presented as being true, that are at least questionable. Sporky in the other hand has a very solid understanding of science and has repeatedly explained things in a clear and unemotional manner, with facts that are 100% supportable and demonstrably so.
Rocker then ignores the information despite having the opportunity to look it up and verify it himself.
So, the two of them have a long standing slightly combative relationship that has existed for years before you joined the forum. It is not for you to judge such a relationship.
As a spectator I can confirm that Sporky has never presented untrue or unverifiable arguments to Rocker, and Rocker has never accepted those arguments despite them being the fruit of proper peer reviewed sources.
I think that covers it. There’s nothing disgusting here.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Get offended then come out swinging.
Fight, fight, fight !!
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
I'll not be bullied by the likes of him into not challenging weak-minded bullshit when it's posted. The world would be a better place without the willfully ignorant spewing their every uninformed and uninspected brain-fart into it.
Imagine how well the world would work if everyone took it as a mission to better themselves.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I think he often misses something very important. Challenging nonsense is often not about winning an argument with a cretin who is beyond saving, it’s to educate others reading the argument who might have otherwise been taken in by the nonsense.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
Those kind of idiots wouldn't know kinetic energy if it whacked them in the side of the head.
Now consider what well over 100,000 tons can do when it hits a bridge, even at a snail's pace.
"Why have a bridge spanning a river or inlet that is directly in the path of a major shipping port?"