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Well what do you expect? It's 'made in china' after all  This is where my signature goes. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
Never trust these super long and tall bridges. Q | |||
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I tink they have to start all over again, bummer. | |||
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This video shows the action a few seconds earlier....appears the area where the bridge anchors into the mountain-side failed resulting in the catastrophe. https://x.com/WeatherMonitors/...-into-river-below%2F | |||
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Hope no one was injured or killed by the collapse. Just had a giggle to myself though... Honky Bridge... I know that isn't correct, probably Hongchi but the spelling got to me. I know, I am sick and demented but proud of it. The “POLICE" Their job Is To Save Your Ass, Not Kiss It The muzzle end of a .45 pretty much says "go away" in any language - Clint Smith | |||
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thin skin can't win |
Well, the base of that second concrete pillar looks like it was already out in the air like a redneck deck project in Alabama..... You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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The US needs to stop thinking like this. They're kicking our butts in many areas and dismissing them is done at our peril. | |||
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Do a search on "Tofu dreg constructions". It's very common in China, though it's usually with condos. A high profile project like this is literally gonna cause a few heads to roll. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
Interesting video giving new perspective. I've been involved in geotechnical failures on the oil & gas side. It'll be interesting to see if it was the geotechnical engineering that failed, the fabrication and construction of the geotechnical plans that failed (i.e. not built as designed), or both failed. The first two cases are the easiest from an investigation perspective, and the third case is a finger pointing nightmare (e.g. you didn't fabricate and build as designed, it doesn't matter the design would've failed anyway, etc). Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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It might not necessarily have been poorly designed or constructed. Just looking at the "headline" of the tweet, it sounds like the mountain giving way. Of course, that raises the question of whether they did a proper geological study before building it. Do not construe this as any kind of defense of the Chinese. We have had structures destroyed from natural forces working against them. Look up the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge (wind) and 1928 St. Francis Dam (previously unknown unstable ground) collapses. "The Almighty, He put some livin' things on this earth so a man can eat." - Festus Haggen, Gunsmoke | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
On LinkedIn, many are calling out threads on Chinese preeminence in new battery technology, solar power, factory automation, etc. as Chinese propaganda. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Looks like a bridge to nowhere. Was this project proposed by an American congressman? _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
The big question is did they buy their bridge trusses on Harbor Freight or Amazon? | |||
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Temu, duh. _____________________________________________ I may be a bad person, but at least I use my turn signal. | |||
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A Grateful American |
It was closed the day before when cracks were found in the bridge, mountain side and evidence of unstable ground. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא עוד | |||
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| Drill Here, Drill Now |
Yes and no: Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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yeah sure.  "Practice like you want to play in the game" | |||
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Matthew 7:26-27 | |||
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You did notice the smiley in creslin's post, yes? | |||
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