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Bridge Collapse



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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