The Kerch Bridge is on Fire

@KyleWOrton ^ | 107/2022 | Kyle Orton

[marcusmaximus]

Breaking: The Kerch Bridge, which connects occupied Crimea to Russia, is on fire.

[Scrambler Bob]

A fire can heat the bridge steel, weakening it to the point of collapse.

[pierrem15]

Steel will burn if you heat it enough: that’s how a cutting torch works.

[Dr. Franklin]

"Hold my vodka and watch this ..."

Maybe it's a Russian general's vodka stash that spontaneously combusted?

[Paladin2]

I’m actually educated on how Iron can be reduced from the ores....

[DannyTN]

Somebody was smoking in the wrong area.

[pierrem15]

Don't mean to condescend: a lot of people do not know.

Steel is a truly amazing material when you understand just how its properties can change as its crystal structure changes depending on carbon content, alloys and quench.

[cranked]

Also going to depend upon the type steel.

[Lurker]

“Also going to depend upon the type steel.”

If it’s Russian steel it’s probably substandard and improperly installed.

L

[cranked]

Your Russophobia is well known and established within FR.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

As is your Russophilia.

[Zhang Fei]

I gotta hand it to the Ukie operators who presumably did this. Whites of their eyes. Balls of steel.

[Zhang Fei]

[If it’s Russian steel it’s probably substandard and improperly installed.

L]

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For something this high visibility, I’d be surprised if it were substandard. At the same time, $1000 artillery shell can wreck a $1m home, so ...

[cranked]

Someone got to stand up to your and your cohorts incessant propaganda peddling yes?

[Allegra]

Someone got to stand up to your and your cohorts incessant propaganda peddling yes?

I can’t help but wonder if they’re trying to destroy this site from within.

Much like their leaders are doing to our country.

[marcusmaximus]

Ukraine did their homework. Part of the bridge has collapsed.

[Zhang Fei]

This is a belated birthday present Putin won’t soon forget.

[Zhang Fei]

[I can’t help but wonder if they’re trying to destroy this site from within.

Much like their leaders are doing to our country.]

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Supporting Russian military expeditions in Europe is not something I ever expected the Robinsons to tolerate. However, times change, and they may have evolved with the times.

[Dr.Deth]

The unconnected roadway there has collapsed as well, so unless fire can melt concrete, and steel, and do it from distance across a body of water, I’m not buying the “accident” thing. It’s like NordStream, it was done knowing it’s beyond Ukraine capabilities but well within NATO’s.

[Theoria]

Looks like it.

[marcusmaximus]