Some idiot reporter just asked Buttigieg…

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The media is really a bunch of idiots…

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Its not the highest bar for intelligence or integrity.

I’m sure he would know a lot about impacts

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I‘lol give him credit he handled it well and said this was a completely different circumstance, no bridge in the world would’ve survived that impact….

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Pretty sure somebody else had to tell him to say that.

Well, in all fairness, theres a report out that the legs were designed to take a direct hit from a ship.
So there's that

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Buttigieg

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How long does it take to ride a bike from DC to Baltimore?

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With or without a seat?

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theres a report out that the legs were designed to take a direct hit from a ship.

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How big of a ship?

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The dumbest fricks on this planet are in the media

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Or the smartest if you consider the MSM reporter was a plant to make Bootieplug look competent

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theres a report out that the legs were designed to take a direct hit from a ship.

How big of a ship?

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Lets say the fully loaded ship weighed 200,000 tons moving at 5 knots, it struck that bridge leg with over 600 MJ of kinetic energy!

Not much is going to stand up to that.


Using Conservative guesstimates. The ship was likely heavier than that the numbers was a ballpark number from average container ships, hard to tell from the video, if was moving at 10 knots that would quadruple the energy to 2,400 MJ.

for the math nerds KE = 1/2M * V^2

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The dumbest fricks on this planet are in the media.

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And politicians.