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[-] aaaa@lemmy.world 63 points 10 months ago

What exactly are they arguing over? I probably shouldn't ask, but I've been fortunate enough to not encounter any of this controversy on my social media

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago

Probably whether or not the ship was loaded with jet fuel or something...

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

My favorite thing about the jet fuel argument is that it's actually true. It's irrelevant, but it's true.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Wait! Are you saying those planes had jet fuel in the tanks?

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

To make matters worse, it was loaded with a bio-organic payload that is mostly hydrogen and oxygen, both of which are incredibly volatile.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago

:O omg we should ban that. imagine if people went around burning that stuff every day.

[-] Catoblepas 48 points 10 months ago

Personally I’ve seen:

  • actually a terrorist attack that’s being covered up, which includes lots of the bridge and ship version of “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”

  • rebuilding it will actually not be expensive because (some insane shit nobody has ever done before). Elon Musk got in on this one!

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  • rebuilding it will actually not be expensive because (some insane shit nobody has ever done before). Elon Musk got in on this one!

Let me guess, they're going to make a tunnel instead. But instead of underground they're going to put it above ground, suspended over the water supported by pillars. 🧐

[-] Catoblepas 44 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, you bright and wonderful soul, untarnished by the knowledge of the depths of Musk’s stupidity, I envy you. I envy you and will destroy your blissful ignorance: he suggested reusing the collapsed truss steel.

You know, steel! The material that deals fantastically with being bent and twisted and doesn’t lose any strength at all from it! 😬

[-] Gormadt 14 points 10 months ago

FFS that's dumb, that steel can't be reused without being reforged (or whatever the term is)

That broken bridge needs removed (hopefully recycled) and then a new one built in it's place

Hopefully it goes faster than the project to replace a bridge near me. It was built before WWI and it's still there, the talks have been going on for decades.

[-] Ranger 7 points 10 months ago

Sounds like a bridge near me.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

There is a bridge near me that was rebuild so cars can cross like 30 years ago. They had plans to repaint it, because it looks weathered. They put on 3 different kinds of paint to see which one would look best. The 3 samples are already weathered and peeling by now.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

and my axe i mean bridge.

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

And let me guess; hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent on multiple studies figuring out whether or not the bridge should be replaced?

[-] Gormadt 6 points 10 months ago

Funnily enough no

Everyone knows it needs replaced

No one wants to agree on what should replace it though

Basically 2 different jurisdictions want to replace the bridge and then either one will propose a plan that inevitably gets shot down and then it's back to the drawing board

So the money is being wasted there not on whether it should be replaced or not

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

That just might be crazy enough to work, perhaps the tunnel can be made of scaffolding, so people can get some of that sweet sunlight while they go through it?

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

It only fits one tesla at the time

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

He can have it done in a month. Guaranteed.

[-] cobysev@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

A cargo ship lost power and couldn't steer, ended up crashing into a bridge and took it down. Drivers were stopped from crossing in time, but there was a construction crew on the bridge who fell with it. Several reported dead.

Now Facebook warriors are arguing that it's some sort of conspiracy.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I still don't get the point of the OP.

Aren't Conspiracy Theorists experts in theories of conspiracy?!

/s

[-] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think people are saying that the bridge shouldn't have collapsed like that just from being hit by a barge and that there was some kind of structural defect in the bridge. The fact that investigators went straight to' "maintenance was just done to the ship" is sus.

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