Then I read that it was being run by "national champions" UCF and it made sense. LOL
Steel cables under tension like that are outrageously dangerous when they suddenly fail and start whipping around. They’d cut through a man like a hot knife through butter. I imagine that once it started collapsing a few weeks ago there was general understanding that there was no safe way to put men up there to keep the rest from going and so it was already a fait accompli. Too bad, as an engineer I hate to see things like this.
Well, that’s unsurprising, as they’ve been looking at it deteriorate for years with their thumbs up their butts, knowing this is the outcome. Biden’s fault.
Symbolic of the state of America: long term deterioration followed by sudden collapse.
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It’s an old piece of crap falling apart in the jungle. If there is a compelling reason to continue monitoring ten million channels of space static at taxpayer expense then it will be rebuilt. If not, then it won’t. Nothing to get all teary-eyed over.
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Yes. Sad.
A drone was watching the snap point when it went: https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/1334536726975574016?s=20
When the oil light indicator lights up on the dash its best to not keep driving.
Completely preventable. Capitalists can build nice things, but socialists can’t maintain them.
Was this used in a James Bond film?
Funny how the steel cable supported suspension bridge in Sanfransisco has not “suddenly” deteriorated to destruction in a hundred years.
Its called maintenence and responsibility.
Something adults do.
It looks like the cables holding the thing up snapped (or were cut).
I flew over the thing in a light plane several times in the early 1970s. It was very impressive from the air, but I was told by people at the PR Nuclear Center in Mayaquez that it was already obsolete, at least in theory.
