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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    The Skyway bridge collapsed in 1980, it would have required time travel to apply those lessons to the Key bridge which was built in 1972.
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    That’s a completely different type of bridge with different structural requirements.
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    To be fair, the poem *does* accurately reflect popular opinion in the years following the Titanic sinking. "Brute" Ismay was widely demonized and socially ostracized for being the senior surviving White Star Line official, forcing him to resign from his positions as chairman of White Star and...
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    A famous and eloquent poem, to be sure, but also not a particularly accurate depiction of events. Smith did not do an exemplary job; while an experienced seaman, he appears to have been paralyzed by shock/denial throughout the disaster -- while he did remain calm and at his station, he failed to...
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    Yeah, just look at the AIS logs I mentioned yesterday. The reason the Eric McAllister was the nearest tug was that was actually the tug that had taken the Dali out of her berth, disconnecting once the ship was in the main channel and making headway. That is absolutely standard procedure, nothing...
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    The black smoke is almost certainly the diesel backup generators firing up to provide emergency power after the main engines died. The power blinking back off a second time seconds before the collision was most likely a desperate last-ditch attempt to restart the main engines and stave off the...
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    If you look at the AIS tracks alone, the moment the Dali makes a mayday call on the radio is absolutely clearcut, because there's a moment where *every* tugboat in the harbor suddenly turns and heads for her. In particular, the Eric McAllister was steaming in the opposite direction (back towards...
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    Breaking News Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapses

    There's already two Army Corps of Engineers ships on site: the hydrographic survey vessel Catlett and the debris clearing ship Reynolds. Both are normally assigned to the Baltimore region.
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    Warbirds Thread

    The Boeing Clipper is the most aesthetically majestic and magnificent civilian aircraft of all time, even beating out the mighty 747.
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    That's the Christian view though; it really should not be surprising that Jews take a different view than Christians do.
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    The government has thought otherwise for many, many years, far predating modern politics. Military barracks and accommodations are notoriously terrible, and often outright unsafe -- the only time this has ever been challenged, the government invoked sovereign immunity to say it couldn't be sued...
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    Legally speaking, being a soldier is explicitly not considered employment -- a precedent set specifically to avoid the headache of trying to apply civil rights and employee protection laws to soldiers, and there are *many, many, many* things that the government is expressly permitted to mandate...
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    When it happened in Vietnam, it was an internal matter that had nothing to do with the state of the war and everything to do with the comically corrupt South Vietnamese government's attempt to continue enacting a Catholic theocracy-oligarchy in a country where the vast majority of the people...
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    Yes, they are in fact legionnaires. A term that, like the Marines, they are very proud of as a matter of tradition and history.
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    I should point out that the urban planning definition of a "15 minute city" is 15 minutes by foot, bike, and public transit. That's quite a bigger bubble than on foot alone, and virtually *all* small towns and minor cities are innately 15-minute. It only becomes a matter of urban planning to...
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    Boomstick's and shooty shooty bang bang's - The GUN Thread!

    The Polish State Police Criminal Division purchased 3000 Walther PPK handguns in 1939. This was an off-the-shelf purchase and not a specially produced order, but pistols from this order can be recognized by the "G2" acceptance stamp of Major Grzybowski, a senior ordnance inspector of the Polish...
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    The concept of a 15 minute city isn't that you're not allowed to travel outside of that radius, it's that the city planning should be done such that residents can accomplish all of their everyday errands and things within a 15-minute walk of their home. It's basically just a less vague...
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    United States 2024: United States Senate Dicussion Thread

    Being against the freedom to travel freely between states is literally as un-American as it gets. For shame!
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    Starship Troopers general thread

    They're still not proper Cap Troopers, but a lot closer to it than previously seen on the SST movie franchise, with what appears to be powered half-armor inspired by those DARPA leg assist concept designs.
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    Hamas Launches Offensive Against Southern Israel

    Which is the entire meaning of the Palestinian slogan, "From the river to the sea". It's about rejecting any idea of compromise or coexistence and not accepting any solution other than exterminating the Jews.
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