Posted on 12/15/2004 5:49:37 AM PST by KMC1
SAW THIS ON SHEP SMITH LAST NIGHT: Maybe I'm the only one who thought this the moment this picture popped onto the screen, but I'm pretty sure I'm not...
How much you wanna bet that France's new pride and joy... (THIS)
...becomes the new "talk of the town" in the Al Jazeera "what should we blow up next" section of the classifieds?
What is extremely interesting is that Chirac and all the French leadership are probably delusional enough after the 24 month scolding they have been giving the U.S. to think that they are completely immune to the terrorists that are out there...
(Excerpt) Read more at kmclive.com ...
Well that explains it. As long as the British engineers weren't former British automotive engineers...
Hey, is this really the highest? The Suspension Bridge at Royal Gorge in Colorado hangs 1,053 above the Arkansas River, but I can't find how high about sea level either of these bridges are. Anybody?
Good point! :)
Tough bridge or not, a commercial airliner would make quick work of it. And the French pray to the PC god, so anyone of an arab persuasion would get a free pass through any French airport.
It's cable-stayed though, which means that it might be able to take significant damage to the cables, and only lose that section. Messing with suspension bridge cables though, would bring the whole thing down.
Designed by a British Engineer!
The DGSE have proven again and again with terrorist attacks and cells smashed in France that this is not the case.
Nice
There are a lot of people in Kansas City who know that human motion creating resonance to destroy bridges in no myth!
LOL!
Something tells me it isn't going to collapse like that airport section or fall apart like their aircraft carrier.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The hotel bridges were brought down by weight, not resonance.
They were unconstructable as designed, so a simple field change was made which weakened them so much, the could barely support their own weight.
Perhaps it has Lucas obstruction lights. LOL
Likely they didn't hit resonance. Many factors would go into determining the resonance frequency. Some of them are obscure, or not yet determined. Tacoma Narrows is an excellent example of this.
They were constructed wrong, no doubt. But they did not fall until the crowds started to move. A seriously flawed installation was the primary cause of the collapse, but resonance was a contributing factor.
It was once thought that destroying a single skyscraper was "extremely tough." That "conventional wisdom" (sic) pretty much went out the window on 9/11.
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