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Key Baltimore bridge collapses after collision

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by citygator, Mar 26, 2024.

  1. OklahomaGator

    OklahomaGator Jedi Administrator Moderator VIP Member

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    My bad, I didn't think about Covid when I looked at the chart. Expanding the chart to 10 years it looks like current prices are in line with precovid prices.
     
  2. philnotfil

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    No, no, no, you read it wrong. It wasn't the work of the deep state. The deep state knew about it and allowed the attack because they were working for the greater good of stopping the importing of children. The attack was carried out by America's adversaries to disrupt our cyber capabilities along the Mason Dixon line, and the deep state knew about it ahead of time, but allowed it to go forward in a way that minimized the loss of life. Do sheeple like you really believe the cops could have gotten out there and blocked off traffic to the bridge with only a few minutes warning?!? They were staged and ready to go at the appointed time because the deep state was doing what it always does, pulling strings behind the scenes!!1!
     
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  3. GatorBen

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    Ah, doctoral level research.
     
  4. vegasfox

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    Haven't followed the thread but does anyone think the vessel that hit the bridge was disabled by a cyber attack. Lara Logan said a few days ago that all of her sources at Homeland Security and elsewhere in gov't say it was a cyber attack with more to come..
     
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  5. ursidman

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    It’s been so obvious for so long but this guy is going to bust it wide open.

     
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  6. ValdostaGatorFan

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    I watched a presentation on this like a decade ago, probably at DefCon. It is 100% real, like you said. I also don't believe that is what happened here.

    I do wonder, however, how the security posture of these companies have changed over the years, and what traversing the networks of a compromised boat would look like. Jumping from satcoms into the scada side would be devastating, I can tell you with 100% certainty that companies to this day still do not properly segment their networks, especially process control networks, and do not regularly patch those systems. PLC's notoriously don't get patched because a ton of folks do not want to touch something that works.
     
  7. tigator2019

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    In my head--- UF
    absolutely not. Not a cyber attack no evidence of it. She is nuts

    by the way, you can find 1000 articles on how the ships navigation usually is not linked to the internet.
     
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  8. WarDamnGator

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    Deep State even put a few disposable Mexicans on the bridge to fill "pot holes" ... but wait ... aren't bridge decks made of concrete? Concrete doesn't get potholes. I also heard that all those containers on the ship were empty, after dropping off 7.2 trillion "Biden" ballots from China.
     
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  9. philnotfil

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    I mean, the math checks out, no arguing with that.
     
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  10. GatorJMDZ

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    So then Mexico will pay for the new bridge? I mean, Mexico has to pay for something.
     
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  11. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    It's been reported often that the Key bridge was the third longest continual span bridge in the world, behind bridges in Japan and Oregon. I just realized that the fourth-longest is the Hart.

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  12. g8trjax

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  13. ElimiGator

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    It’s newer than the Mathew’s Bridge by 24 years. I despise crossing the Mathew’s bridge. It’s amazing how much the Hart and Key bridges look alike. It’s good, I guess, that Jaxport is located closer to the newer Dames Point bridge which is a cable-stayed bridge instead of a trussed bridge. Mathews bridge photo:
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  14. tilly

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    The Matthews was scary to me as a kid in the 80's. It hasnt really changed.
     
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  15. g8trjax

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    Go over that damn thing everyday. Used to really trip me out when the steel grate was there at the top.
     
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  16. demosthenes

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    The Oregon bridge is in Astoria and can be seen in Short Circuit, The Goonies, and Kindergarten Cop.
     
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  17. rivergator

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    I knew there were a lot of complaints about the grate, but I had no problems at all in my Camry. Then I got a Rodeo and was bouncing all over that bridge. Not a good feeling.
     
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  18. tigator2019

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    In my head--- UF
    TIK Tok gives cesspools a bad name
     
  19. channingcrowderhungry

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  20. WarDamnGator

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    That's how the old Skyway was, I remember as a kid I could hang my head out the window and look down and see water... those metal grates are slippery though. The old Clearwater Beach draw bridge was also a metal grate, and I remember as a teenager my car fishtailing on that bridge for seemingly no reason. Scared the shit out of me.
     
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