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In reply to the discussion: You know what is NOT happening in Baltimore? [View all]Deep State Witch
(10,472 posts)Whose husband was probably able to do these calculations in his head.
Okay, people who have NO FUCKING CLUE about physics asking "how could a ship knock down a bridge that easily?"
Doing approximations -
A fully loaded container ship at about 220,000 TONS of weight. (Taking that from the ship the Ever Given that got stuck in the Suez Canal - this one could have been MORE considering it was massively loaded)
Figure the channel speed is 8MPH (10MPH is "no wake", and it had lost some power, but let me tell you, inertia is a THING on a monster that big)
That translates to the rough equivalent of an explosive force of 3 TONS (6000 pounds, people) of TNT going on off on that bridge. And if you don't think 3 tons of TNT would take out a bridge that size, you are SADLY mistaken.
It was not "bad engineering of the bridge". It was not "lack of maintenance". It was PHYSICS. Please stop with the conspiracy theories.