[z3n]

[JSM_Liberty]

Explosives?

Great, so we are going to get some 9/11 building 7 nonsense now.

[DesertRhino]

Retarded...

[PGR88]

It literally pancaked on itself from the demolition!

/s

[Liaison]

What explosives? Videos and images I saw are not boom but a crunch that took out the bridge. Need a lot more evidence for the conspiracy banner on this one.

[Romulus]

If you can ram the bridge pier with a gigantic container ship, why would you even need explosives?

[RainMan]

Even the X posts on this link are debunking this fruitloop. You have electrical on the bridge. When you rip electrical wires apart they spark, and lights blow up. When you rip steel apart it sparks and glows hot.

[Red Badger]

[teeman8r]

but there was a federal reserve vice president in charge of inflationary spending travelling on the bridge ...

or so i am told.

[ponygirl]

No, something happened on that ship (power outage plus possible fire) that disabled the rudder. If it had been terrorism, it wouldn’t have happened at 1:30 am with one lane shut down for construction. Thank God for that.

But now they know how to cripple our other bridges… easily.

[1Old Pro]

Don’t tell me, eyewitnesses saw a missile

[Wuli]

OMG!!! Now the crazies come out, just like on 9/11.

[ansel12]

This is our second conspiracy thread on the bridge.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m a licensed civil engineer.

I won’t even waste my time with that nonsense.

“Let’s demolish a continuous through truss bridge by placing explosives along the TOP of the superstructure” … said nobody with an IQ over 70 — ever.

[Magnum44]

[Yossarian]

This is "The Redhead Libertarian", and she's always thirsty for clicks.

So it doesn't surprise me that she'll post something that gets attention, and then try to maintain social media respectability by following that up with a bunch of "I'm a moron about these things" replies.

[discostu]

No.

Really people, STOP.

[Smber]

A truss bridge is made up of components that connect to other components at each end. The vector sum of the forces at each of these connections MUST BE ZERO otherwise, that connection would be moving and take down the truss. When the ship hit the bridge stanchion, that immediately caused these force “balances” to become out of “balance” meaning that in at least one connection point (and probably many in very short order), the vector sum of forces became <,> zero. Note in the video that the mid point of the larger span was the one that collapsed first. It’s probable that the connection at the bottom/mid of that span had its vector sum changed due to the impact. Once that happens at a point, other points are sure to follow.

[Responsibility2nd]

The Francis Scott Key Bridge. Building 7. You know, the thing.

[databoss]

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