Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Baltimore Bridge Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:19:51 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <54ecndjJKpe_QZn7nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com> <66n90j98fa5ciafo546pd0t1fk7iasml2r@4ax.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 14:19:52 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="57e7f22618a88286219793465c2ee86f"; logging-data="365799"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/mWTyaafeukhu8ueLnBuu+" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3kVKiP/oFzWJh4kbhAVRXjUQnKk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3887 On 3/28/24 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , > "Adam H. Kerman" wrote: > >> Adam H. Kerman wrote: >>> shawn wrote: >>>> On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:55:30 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: >> >>>>> Just saw on the news that Joe Biden has pledged that the government will >>>>> "pay the entire cost" of rebuilding the Baltimore bridge. >> >>>>> Huh? Shouldn't the shipping company and its insurance agency foot the bill? >>>>> It's like he just can't wait for any opportunity to fuck the taxpayer. >> >>>>> And when it's rebuilt, obviously it can't be renamed the Francis Scott >>>>> Key Bridge. I mean, "old straight racist white guy", amirite? So what >>>>> will its new name be? >> >>>>> I submit the "Saint George Floyd of Fentanyl Memorial Bridge". >> >>>> The federal government can act to get repairs started today while the >>>> lawyers act to collect any money due from the company/insurance. >> >>> The bridge won't be repaired. It'll be 5 to 7 years at least. >> >> Here's an article from the Baltimore Sun. Turn off javascript to read. >> >> https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/how-long-to-rebuild-key-bridge/ >> >> Ignore "rebuild" in the headline. No one is saying it can be rebuilt. >> It's going to be replaced with something brand new. I'm sure the >> piers will both be relocated closer to shore. > > And higher, too. I drove across the Key Bridge regularly when I was a DC > denizen and it was kinda scary how high up you got with seemingly very > little to stop you from going over the side if you lost control. > >> The replacement will have to take into account larger vessels and sea >> level rise > > Which is non-existent pretty much everywhere. There's been no sea level > rise over the last 12 years at the beach down the street from me; when I > visited Miami's South Beach two years ago, the ocean was in the same > place it was in the pictures of my visit 20 years earlier (despite > AlGore's insistence that Miami would be underwater by 2011); Plymouth > Rock isn't underwater; the water level around the base of the Statue of > Liberty hasn't changed since it was erected, etc., etc. This has been explained to you for decades. Decades... -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0