Bridge Collapse

[kkrup62 at hotmail.com (Karl Krupke)]

Actually, speaking as a long term liberal (thought Nixon was an arrogant 
paranoid moron, Reagan was a narcoleptic cheerleader moron, Bush Sr. a semi- 
illiterate moron, and now Bush Jr., who is at best merely a moron squared, 
along with corrupt and incompetant)...uh, anyway; I've never had a problem 
with Nukes.
    Relatively cheap, clean, and convenient (like sex oughta be, some of the 
time).
    But I know what you mean about the fringe end treehuggers; same 
mentality that thinks if everyone buys an electric car pollution will 
magically disappear... "hey moron, where do you think the juice in the wall 
socket comes from?" Coal burning plant, most likely.

    Best treehugger story I've ever heard, this from a few years ago: Some 
'hugger was protesting logging in the Pacific Northwest, went out to a 
nearby Redwood forest with his sign.
    While wandering through the woods, a dead branch broke off one of the 
Redwoods and landed on this guy. Redwoods are kinda big... branch more or 
less schmussed him dead.
    Poetic comedy, I think... proof perhaps that if there is a God, s/he/it 
has a warped sense of humor.
    Ok, you're right, make that "further proof"; on top of the platypus, 
penguin, dodo, Spanish Inquisition, Tammy Faye Bakker, fanatic Muslims, etc.

Karl


>From: "Chris Bennett" <scirocco16vr32@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: Bridge Collapse
>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:14:45 -0400
>
>Well if the goddamn treehuggin' liberals didn't claim nukes make baby
>Jesus cry--they could test the metal structure via radiological means.
>  That's how they do critical weld inspections in the shipyard.
>
>I am kidding about the liberals... but not the treehuggers.  LOL
>
>On 8/7/07, Spewey <spewey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Jesus H, people.  As someone who has had the term "Metallurgical" in
> > their professional title before, I wanted to take a minute to have a
> > look at what a crap job bridge inspection is.  All over the news are
> > reports of "fatigue," "structurally deficient" and "50/120" as if the
> > news pundits or the populace has any idea what that stuff means.  And
> > then they go and attack them because they screwed up.  Colossal
> > shittiness.
> >
> > We won't know for a long time who screwed up.  And I know there are some
> > people here who do Failure Analysis or FMEA on car parts who know how
> > easy it is to look at a computer screen or even peer into a microscope
> > to investigate corrosion or work hardening but the men and women who
> > hang off bridges have a difficult job:  they can't take a bridge beam
> > back to the lab.  They have to sign off on it in situ.
> >
> > FDNY, blah blah, first responder, Navy divers, schoolbus full of
> > precious loinfruit...once you're done feeling all red white and blue,
> > please take a second to think about the poor inspectors before you throw
> > a spark plug at them for making you late.
> >
> >  From the news:
> >
> > "It's nuts," said a second MnDOT expert who has inspected the bridge.
> > "The first thing you notice is that the traffic is not giving you a
> > break. And in MnDOT there is a real reluctance to close a lane of
> > traffic because then you're impeding flow. Then there's the height over
> > the water, the pigeons, bats and spiders. If you're a little squirrelly
> > about those things, you shouldn't be in the business. It's nasty
> > business down there."
> >
> > http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1347900.html
> >
> > Some Minnesota Department of Transportation employees have found
> > themselves the target of "very...serious threats by email and phone 
>calls"
> >
> > http://www.startribune.com/10204/story/1347187.html
> >
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