OT: 118th Obsequious Banter Thread: February is the month of food days

[Cody Webster]

Baltimore is one of, if not the biggest port on the east coast. Essentially shut down now. Early reports are saying it looks like it lost power. I hope this was an accident

Here's someone breaking down the supposed power failure

 

[Beef Invictus]

Here's someone breaking down the supposed power failure

Somewhere an insurance company is probably all marching to the roof of their building right now.


Some ships still have a boiler and steam turbine to generate power while starting up, during maintenance, or as backup when entering and leaving port. I wonder what the arrangement of this ship is. Of course if the problem was at the switchboard I'd bet none of that would matter.

 

[JojoTheWhale]

Thread from my buddy Andrew on what happened with the ship. He used to work in the field.

Here's someone breaking down the supposed power failure

There is zero evidence whatsoever this was a cyber attack. This man is a loon.

(I know you only meant the video, but the dipshit is in his own replies spreading that nonsense.)

 

[Chicken N Raffls]

That's horrible. I hope they can find the missing people. And if not, I hope it was quick at least. Just tragic.

 

[Kermit the Prog]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071

Holy shit! Cargo ship hit and dropped the Key bridge

I have at least one friend who is terrified of going over bridges. When she hears about this, she's going to flip out.

 

[Cody Webster]

Thread from my buddy Andrew on what happened with the ship. He used to work in the field.



There is zero evidence whatsoever this was a cyber attack. This man is a loon.

(I know you only meant the video, but the dipshit is in his own replies spreading that nonsense.)

I didn't even look at the rest of the nonsense he posted. Was at the gym and just saw the breakdown. I threw the word supposed in there on my own accord, not knowing if that's what we were witnessing or not

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

You’d have to like time it perfectly to willingly cut the power & have it ram directly into a support beam like that.

It’s like the 9/11 loons. Why jump through all those hoops where there’s opportunities for it to be foiled (hell one of the planes did get downed by the crew/passengers showing just that risk) than just getting straight after it if you purposely wanted it to happen.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Luckily they got distress calls out so MDTA police stopped traffic

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I’m no architect or anything so perhaps I’m just wrong because it is a very extended bridge. But the pillars didn’t really seem to have much barrier to it/them.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I’m no architect or anything so perhaps I’m just wrong because it is a very extended bridge. But the pillars didn’t really seem to have much barrier to it/them.

Also beyond me, but the port was handling much smaller ships when the bridge was built. I'm interesting in seeing what the NTSB has to say about that. Of course, I'm also not even sure you can make an effective barrier that those ships don't go over or through.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Also beyond me, but the port was handling much smaller ships when the bridge was built. I'm interesting in seeing what the NTSB has to say about that. Of course, I'm also not even sure you can make an effective barrier that those ships don't go over or through.

So I just read up on it. It seems this bridge is old enough to where fortifying the pillars with extra protection wasn’t common. It’s apparently now standard when building bridges today & very likely will be with this replacement.

It looks like it’s akin to like a water barrel system on a highway. They surround the pillar with concrete like speed bumps that accomplish the same goal of softing up damage & slowing down the moving ship.

 

[Cody Webster]

So I just read up on it. It seems this bridge is old enough to where fortifying the pillars with extra protection wasn’t common. It’s apparently now standard when building bridges today & very likely will be with this replacement.

It looks like it’s akin to like a water barrel system on a highway. They surround the pillar with concrete like speed bumps that accomplish the same goal of softing up damage & slowing down the moving ship.

Was reading up on that earlier. Looks like the law, requiring bridges to be built with the pillars, went into effect a few years after the bridge was built. If you look at the pictures, you'll see there are pillars protecting the electrical wires just prior to the bridge, but not the bridge itself. Crazy to think that they weren't required to add them in after the fact, or once they started dealing with ships of that size.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Thread from my buddy Andrew on what happened with the ship. He used to work in the field.



There is zero evidence whatsoever this was a cyber attack. This man is a loon.

(I know you only meant the video, but the dipshit is in his own replies spreading that nonsense.)

Tragic events like this are always going to bring out the conspiracy theory nutjobs. It’s the society we live in sadly.

 

[Tripod]

So I just read up on it. It seems this bridge is old enough to where fortifying the pillars with extra protection wasn’t common. It’s apparently now standard when building bridges today & very likely will be with this replacement.

It looks like it’s akin to like a water barrel system on a highway. They surround the pillar with concrete like speed bumps that accomplish the same goal of softing up damage & slowing down the moving ship.

Our city(Halifax, NS) is a major port for Canada on the East coast. Here is a pic of our bridge and you can see that it has a barrier to help stop a ship should something like this happen.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

What is the rule/law regarding tugboats in ports like the one in Baltimore?

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Our city(Halifax, NS) is a major port for Canada on the East coast. Here is a pic of our bridge and you can see that it has a barrier to help stop a ship should something like this happen.
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I mean, even if a ship took out that bridge it would still only be the second worst boat-related disaster to happen in Halifax.

 

[Tripod]

I mean, even if a ship took out that bridge it would still only be the second worst boat-related disaster to happen in Halifax.

Well done on knowing that history!

 

[JojoTheWhale]

@Chinatown88 So in PoE, there’s a relatively rare drop that contains a random custom map for you to run. There are 3,000+ versions of them, all created by an individual person who bought a high dollar supporter pack. Last night, I opened SingSing’s. I didn’t even know he played PoE.

 

[Chinatown88]

@Chinatown88 So in PoE, there’s a relatively rare drop that contains a random custom map for you to run. There are 3,000+ versions of them, all created by an individual person who bought a high dollar supporter pack. Last night, I opened SingSing’s. I didn’t even know he played PoE.

MY FORMER PROFESSIONAL DOTA 2 PLAYER. FeelsStrongMan

He like goes ham every big patch and co streams the official reveals and stuff. He's a variety guy now.

Edit: Solak mocked the Ravens taking Kingsley in the latest episode of NFL Stock Exchange. That doesn't change anything with his punchable face.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

 

[Strawberry Fields]

Looks like my employment is secured, but it's going to take at least several days for everything to be finalized and signed off on. But they're also apparently working on allowing those of us remaining to get paid in the interim as well.

Yesterday we literally just turned in our badges and left. A bunch of us went out to breakfast. It was nice to hang out one last time. A group of 15 of us are going to the Hershey Bears game on April 12 so I'm really looking forward to that. Even though I'm connected with most of my work friends via social media and the like, it's obviously not the same as seeing them every day. I mean it when I say I never made better friends in my life than the crew I worked with here. Hoping we can still meet up every now and then.

 

[Embiid]

"Philthy" animals

Trapped a husband and wife that took residence around my mom's foundation....bastard stubborn animals.

Surprise! Punxsutawney Phil, Phyllis welcome 2 baby groundhogs

Punxsutawney Phil, the world-famous groundhog, is now a dad!

abc7chicago.com

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02b6MpuPUfbz6oLr7XxcxwMyR3ok2KUQH5nvE1ZLx9BAMRK4AMQy22vTmmAmmD9HWrl&id=100044511906531

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

2 seconds in and that was it. Wtf was that music

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

2 seconds in and that was it. Wtf was that music

No idea about the music. But the video is from GTA 3. The bridge blows up in the beginning of the game closing you off to the other part of the map but that’s how you can get by it.

 

[wankstifier]

Our city(Halifax, NS) is a major port for Canada on the East coast. Here is a pic of our bridge and you can see that it has a barrier to help stop a ship should something like this happen.
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I don't think that barrier would do much to stop a ship of the size in the accident.