Pork City! 1,547 Page Continuing Resolution Packed With Pork (Wasteful Spending Like New Washington Commander Stadium And Francis Scott Key Bridge)

Confounded Interest ^ | December 18, 2024

[Bull Snipe]

without a main engine, or steering control, the best pilots in the world would be powerless to change the outcome of the Dali’s collision with the FSK bridge.

[Svartalfiar]

These Stadiums bring in millions of dollars to the area in which they are located. It’s an investment.

...So what benefit do I, as a taxpayer in Texas, get from paying for a football stadium in Washington? What do I get out of my "investment"?

[T.B. Yoits]

without a main engine, or steering control, the best pilots in the world would be powerless to change the outcome of the Dali’s collision with the FSK bridge.

Another pilot might have dropped anchor immediately instead of two minutes after losing all power.

[Bull Snipe]

would have done no good. A 90,000-ton ship moving at 10 knots is not going to be stopped be a 10-ton anchor dragging in soft mud.

[T.B. Yoits]

It's not about stopping, it's about canting.

[Bull Snipe]

how much cant do get with a 90,000-ton ship moving at 10 knots with a 10 ton anchor dragging through soft mud.

A more salient question is why the engineers reset the 440 board input breaker with knowing why it tripped in the first place. Why did they not shift power input to the 440 board to the alternate input transformer.