• palebluethought@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          I mean I can’t speak to how “flimsy” this particular bridge is, but it was hit by a container ship. Those things weigh in the hundreds of thousands of tons. It doesn’t much matter how sturdy your bridge is, it’s going down.

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            Then that bridge needed to be reinforced a long time ago, or ships like that shouldn’t be allowed there. This was a flimsy bridge for what it is dealing with.

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              7 months ago

              Again, getting hit head on by a cargo ship, you may as well be throwing the empire State building at it. There is not a bridge on earth that would survive that collision.

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          7 months ago

          The bridge got hit by what is effectively a floating skyscraper

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        7 months ago

        No, but it’s a big head on static structure collision