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Spain officials quit over trains that were too wide for tunnels
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| 02/21/2023
| Tom SPender
Posted on 02/21/2023 11:57:46 AM PST by BenLurkin
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posted on
02/21/2023 11:57:46 AM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
Their wusses. LOL Our DOT secretary won’t quit even when our trains spew out toxic chemicals.
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posted on
02/21/2023 11:59:45 AM PST
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/21/2023 11:59:59 AM PST
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:00:14 PM PST
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Rurudyne
So does unit conversion. NASA lost a $125 Million Mars orbiter once.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:02:31 PM PST
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: BenLurkin
Fredrico Fellini had no comment.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:02:36 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just postill clickbait!)
To: BenLurkin
This problem was obviously caused by Global Warming. Heat makes things expand. And the trains, being made of metal, will expand more than the tunnels.
Okay, so that’s settled. Now where do I go to collect my Nobel Prize in Physics?
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:04:37 PM PST
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: BenLurkin
I bet some low-level technical designer told them the engines were too big for those tunnels...but the info did not survice the corporate chain of command.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:08:36 PM PST
by
citizen
(Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
To: BenLurkin
“Two top Spanish transport officials have resigned”
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They got off easy just resigning, they should have been prosecuted for being criminally stupid (or criminally corrupt). I mean how incompetent can you be to do something like this? It boggles the mind.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:09:03 PM PST
by
jimwatx
To: BenLurkin
Oi vehhhhh! PC til it hurts
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:11:56 PM PST
by
SMARTY
(“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
To: BenLurkin
I guess our government is not the only one that can screw things up.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:12:23 PM PST
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
To: BenLurkin
The Spanish government certainly doesn’t want to piss off the northern part of Spain...
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:17:12 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
To: BenLurkin
Ream the tunnels to standard size.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:18:12 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Paladin2
To: Boogieman
Musk has a company for that.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:20:38 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: BenLurkin
If this happened in California the Governor would decide to spend 2.8 Billion to widen the tunnels.
Labor Unions would be thrilled.
To: BenLurkin
This is what happens when government is in charge of standards and data, especially with infrastructure.
To: BenLurkin
It seems people in government in some places actually get fired.
To: BenLurkin
At least they didn’t find out the hard way.
To: BenLurkin
“The trains could not fit into non-standard tunnels”
Wait a second... Doesn’t this mean the tunnels are at fault for not matching the ‘standard’ vs the guys who ordered the train cars?
But being Spain. The people who quit already got their kickbacks and everyone takes short cuts about everything anyway.
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posted on
02/21/2023 12:27:34 PM PST
by
Organic Panic
(Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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