Something is very wrong too, just bridges don’t collapse like that.
How fast was that ship going to make the whole bridge go down?
Who are our Free Republic Physics majors? Someone here tell me how this happened.
All most all bridges are fragile structurally if you take out a main supporting member.
Not bridges fault - something planned to never happen. Never.
I have decades in structural experience and son is a Structural Engineer, PE, bridge designer of large bridges.
Well, an impact of substantial force (mass in motion) upon a key pillar (if you will) on a long span of bridge.
The catastrophic breakup is not surprising, unfortunately.
And that long span seemingly was counterbalancing the section on the right side of the video (which obviously sustained damage from the collapse on the left).
The whole thing is shocking to watch but not surprising once the event began.
I don’t think they could have aimed it any better if they had tried.
Just wow.
No need to spout a conspiracy theory. Yes, bridges DO collapse like that.
This would not even be a complicated physics project. The supports for the bridge were not heavy duty enough to take the impact while still holding the bridge up. A much smaller ship would have had the same effect. The ship had the size, weight and speed to easily collapse the bridge like that. Keep in mind the steel above the bridge is not a decoration, that is support to hold the roadway up. Even if the support column was just “bent”, the superstructure would have to continue to hold up the part of the bridge it was previously tasked with, but also do it without the benefit of the support until you got to the next support. Bridges are NOT designed to do that. Any significant damage to the support at all and the bridge was coming down. Once one section goes, the remaining sections no longer have the support they need, and it becomes a chain reaction, just as you saw in the video.