By my standards

If you are 40 then you are young or at most early middle age. I have no intention of actually ever growing old. I am 59 and once i deem that my quality of life is on the down i intend to challenge a polar bear to hand to hand combat. I will lose but will be armed with a Wilson combat tactical tomahawk and a bushcrafter and if things go down the way i want we both die.

Yeah, because you’re twelve.

Wait a minute…is Gangrene Bling twelve? I’d actually feel bad about that.

Thank you, sir. I always knew you were alright.

I’d put money on you and wish the best the best of luck.

Thanks - there is the odd true redneck left north of the border. I am a throw back to my grandfather who was a resistance fighter in WW2 and my father who was a child resistance message courier in occupied europe. Grandpa (Opa) died in Nazi custody for stealing ration cards to feed Jews in hiding. Posthumously made a righteous gentile by the Israeli government. I got good genetics.

I read your threads, and I believe it. You have to be at least half way tough to get by in that country.

Gringo likes CNN and not a demolition expert who blows up bridges for a living, a local guy who isn't a window licker. You see it takes a certain IQ level to look at truth and not walk around with poop in their pants drooling and running into things. When he sobers up and remembers where he is at he may just behave himself again. The devil uses the weak minded man to keep other weak minded men in the same pit constantly pulling down on others that try to crawl out. Ahhhh...today's world.

I heard China used a Tik-Tok algorythm to send a magnetic pulse through a Fox News feed during a Trump commercial which disabled the ship and caused its interaction with the bridge. The difficulty in all of this was doing the magnetic pulse in tandem with a wave created by Poseidon to wreak the most damage.

Fellas, this ain't no rocket surgery - that brige crumbled just like the towers and you know which towers I am referencing. The strength of the bridge is in the structure and when part of the structure fails, much destruction to the remaining structure follows. Knock a high jack out from under a truck and see if the truck falls.

Post up the video you are referring to. I can't find it on YouTube or Google. All I can find are articles about the Crimean Bridge that was blown up in 2022. Makes sense to at least share what you seem to claim is more factual info than everything else we see online or on the news.

I see paranoia and tin foil hats are still thriving here on the THF.

Please stop, please.

I’m not knowledgeable enough to figure out what happened. My first question was WTF.

Contradiction:
Experts drive those boats.
Been waiting for the conspiracy theorists. They always show up.
Nothing makes sense on this deal.

Sometimes things just line up and catastrophic things happen.

I am no expert on large ships, but assume the captain is. The only question I have is, where were the anchors dropped. Seems they should have been dropped rather quickly into a power loss in a harbor.

Of course a demo expert would weigh in that it was possibly intentional. Why would he say otherwise? Demo experts do not gain notoriety, interviews or honorariums by saying it's a nothing-burger. Hosts don't get clicks by not being sensational.

News agencies would love nothing more than for it to be a terrorist attack. But at this point, it simply ain't so.

Truss versus cantilever design. That truss design is going to be much more susceptible to a broader catastrophic failure.

Folks sometimes accidents happen.

A harbor pilot would have had control of the boat. Captain would be there as well. You probably have a bunch of cascading bad things start happening, meanwhile you have inertia behind this huge amount of tonnage on the water. You're trying to restore propulsion/control.

It's a big deal to drop anchors on that size of a ship. Anchors are for somewhat holding it in place once it stops, not for stopping it underway. It's much more complex than anchoring your fishing boat.

Empty that ship was 95,000 tons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dali

There's whispers of it being a cyber attack (i.e. someone hacked the control module and shut it down)

No one is dumb enough to square off with the US militarily

If they want to attack, cyber is honestly the best way to do it. (crashing the stock market, internet outages, etc)

Was also reading that bridge was specially designed to transport hazardous materials.

Looking at 4-5 years until its fully repaired.

Dang, I may have been right, "I heard China used a Tik-Tok algorythm to send a magnetic pulse through a Fox News feed during a Trump commercial which disabled the ship and caused its interaction with the bridge. The difficulty in all of this was doing the magnetic pulse in tandem with a wave created by Poseidon to wreak the most damage."

how deep is the water under the bridge?

The crazy thing...we have no media outlets we can trust to get what really happened here. Sad...I feel for the families of the deceased and I'll bet that bridge is reopened in 5 years. They will over engineer and make certain it meets all sort of alphabet agencies requirements to build and will take damn near a decade to get put back in place. Meanwhile, there will be people that get RICH over this mess...unfortunately it came at the hand of folks losing their lives.

they are already talking court cases over the name, reparations, contractors, dei and the list goes on. tack on 40% on the rebuild cost.

Navionics shows the depth is 54 ft deep in the ship channel