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[Cinga]

FBI has said no ties to terrorism found. So they are able to determine that within about 8 hours but still don't know who planted the J6 pipe bombs?

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

14 minutes ago, Cinga said:

 

Not even top 3 on the east coast let alone the country but your point is still correct, it will certainly cause disruptions

 

News keeps saying "top 3," and I didn't bother fact-checking the idiots for once.  

[IDBillzFan]

4 hours ago, Cinga said:

Oh how comforting, Mayor Brandon Scott is in communication with Mayor Pete Buttigieg so now everything will surely be okay

 

 

Let's see how long it takes for Biden and Buttigieg to explain how a freighter ramming a bridge's support beam is precisely why we need to add another trillion to his spending bill to address infrastructure issues in the US.

[RochesterRob]

22 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

Let's see how long it takes for Biden and Buttigieg to explain how a freighter ramming a bridge's support beam is precisely why we need to add another trillion to his spending bill to address infrastructure issues in the US.

  I'm waiting for the Trump related explanation to appear.  

[Hedge]

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

It was disabled by a directed-energy weapon, then pushed off course by HAARP, causing it to hit the bridge.  Because...reasons.  WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!

 

EDIT: Sources confirm that there was a fire aft, crippling the power plant and disabling the ship.  Clearly caused by a directed energy weapon.  Are you awake now, sheeple?

I’m not discounting your DEW/ HAARP angle, but I’m seeing that fire may have been caused by P Diddy, who was a stowaway and in the process of fleeing the country, falling asleep with a lit joint.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

17 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  I'm waiting for the Trump related explanation to appear.  

 

Because he "defunded DOT" or something.  

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

17 minutes ago, Hedge said:

I’m not discounting your DEW/ HAARP angle, but I’m seeing that fire may have been caused by P Diddy, who was a stowaway and in the process of fleeing the country, falling asleep with a lit joint.

 

I've actually seen it's a false flag to distract from the charges against P Diddy.  But that's too stupid even for me to make up.

 

Right now, I'm leaning from changing me theory from DEW/HAARP to the more simple "lost power to the geomagnetic storm last night."  

 

[Ann]

Da fuk!?
 

 

[Uncle Joe]

6 minutes ago, Ann said:

Da fuk!?
 

 

Obviously no DEI hiring when it came to building the racist low bridge...

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[Hedge]

 

 

 

[IDBillzFan]

1 hour ago, Ann said:

Da fuk!?
 

 

 

Please tell me that's an old video and is not from today.

 

Please. I'm begging you.

[Nouseforaname]

 

[Hedge]

11 minutes ago, IDBillzFan said:

 

Please tell me that's an old video and is not from today.

 

Please. I'm begging you.

 

It's from 2021

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

6 minutes ago, Hedge said:

 

It's from 2021

 

Still indirectly applicable then.

 

And I would be entirely unsurprised to find out the Key Bridge really was racist - that they demolished some minority neighborhoods back in the '60s to build it.  

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

You have no idea what tides were doing, what the material failures were on the ship...

 

Speaking as someone who's watched footage of ships losing steering (WW2 videos - not uncommon, and it's something of a running joke that when ships lose steering, they always lose it with the rudder hard over), that's entirely consistent with a loss of control.  It's pretty much impossible to tell the difference.

[snafu]

2 hours ago, Ann said:

Da fuk!?
 

 

 

 

He's talking about Robert Moses' design of the Parkways on Long Island.

 

 

 

 

[Hedge]

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

(Shrug)

 

Multiple intel sources: Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on US critical infrastructure - most likely cyber - & our intel agencies know it. In information warfare terms, they just divided the US along the Mason Dixon line exactly like the Civil War.

 

Second busiest strategic roadway in the nation for hazardous material now down for 4-5 years - which is how long they say it will take to recover. Bridge was built specifically to move hazardous material - fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit in the tunnels - that supply chain now crippled.

 

Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing & execution.

 

The two critical components on that bridge are the two load-bearing pylons on each end, closest to the shore. They are bigger, thicker and deeper than anything else. These are the anchor points and they knew that hitting either one one of them would be a fatal wound to the integrity of the bridge.

 

Half a mile of bridge went in the river - likely you will have to build a new one. Also caused so much damage to the structural integrity of the bottom concrete part that you cannot see & won’t know until they take the wreckage apart. Structural destruction likely absolute.

 

Attack perfectly targeted.

 

“They have figured out how to bring us down. As long as you stay away from the teeth of the US military, you can pick the US apart. We are arrogant and ignorant - lethal combination. Obama said they would fundamentally change America and they did. We are in a free-fall ride on a roller coaster right now - no brakes - just picking up speed.”

 

The footage shows the cargo ship never got in the approach lane in the channel. You have to be in the channel before you get into that turn. Location was precise/deliberate: chose a bend in the river where you have to slow down and commit yourself - once you are committed in that area there is not enough room to maneuver.

 

Should have had a harbor pilot to pilot the boat. You are not supposed to traverse any obstacles without the harbor pilot.

 

They chose a full moon so they would have maximum tidal shift - rise and fall. Brisk flow in that river on a normal day & have had a lot of rain recently so water was already moving along at a good pace.

 

Hit it with enough kinetic energy to knock the load-bearing pylon out from under the highway - which fatally weakens the span and then 50 percent of the bridge fell into the water.

 

All these factors when you look at it - this is how you teach people how to do this type of attack and there are so few people left in the system who know this. We have a Junior varsity team on the field.

 

Tremendous navigational obstruction. Huge logistical nightmare to clean this up. Number of dead is tragic but not the whole measure of the attack.

 

That kind-of bridge constantly under repair - always at night because there is so much traffic and they cannot obstruct that during the day. So concern is for repair guys who were on foot (out of their vehicles) working who may now be in the water - 48 degrees at most at this time of year.

 

When you choke off Baltimore you have cut the main north-south hazardous corridor (I95) in half. Now has to go around the city - or go somewhere else.

 

To move some of that cargo through the tunnel you may be able to get a permit but those are slow to get and require an escort system that is expensive and has to be done at night.

 

For every $100 dollars that goes into the city, $12 comes from shipping. Believe this will cripple the city of Baltimore at a time when they do not have the resources to recover.

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

You have no idea what tides were doing, what the material failures were on the ship...

 

Speaking as someone who's watched footage of ships losing steering (WW2 videos - not uncommon, and it's something of a running joke that when ships lose steering, they always lose it with the rudder hard over), that's entirely consistent with a loss of control.  It's pretty much impossible to tell the difference.

 

Ship reportedly dropped anchor - not incorrectly - immediately after she lost propulsion.  

 

Which probably caused her to "club haul" - drop the starboard anchor, the fore of the ship is going to stop, and the rear pivot to port.  Which is why such a sharp turn.  I doubt a 100,000 GRT ship could turn that sharply otherwise.