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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 4240431" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>lol. what a disingenuous thought. No one has to be '100%' satisfied about the news to still give the updates coming from the government credence. A rational person understands that the early reports are almost never entirely correct. But that doesn't mean they are intentionally misleading, either.</p><p></p><p>If another source has facts that contradict the official report, those should be considered too. But 'it doesn't look like i think it should look' isn't contradictory proof here. Nor is the fact the the bridge didn't have bumpers. </p><p></p><p>That bridge had a previous strike that didn't cause this type of damage. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/us/key-bridge-historic-crash-invs/index.html" target="_blank">Per a quick search, CNN had this</a></p><p></p><p>"In August 1980, a Japanese container ship crossing the Baltimore harbor lost propulsion about 600 yards from the Key Bridge after its electrical control board shorted out in the early morning hours. The ship then crashed into the bridge, colliding with one of its piers, according to a National Research Council report on ship-bridge collisions.</p><p></p><p>The collision ripped out a 30-foot section of a protective structure around the bridge’s concrete piling, according to a 1981 article published in The Evening Sun newspaper that cited a Coast Guard report on the incident. But the piling itself was only chipped, not significantly damaged. The accident caused $500,000 in damage to the bridge and required $350,000 in ship repairs, the Sun reported."</p><p></p><p>It goes on to point out one big difference is that ships are now much bigger.</p><p></p><p>"One major difference between the two accidents was the size of the ship. Data from the maritime tracking website MarineTraffic suggests the ship that crashed into the bridge in 1980, then known as Blue Nagoya, was about a third of the length and a fraction of the weight of the Dali."</p><p></p><p>So yeah, the government and news sources could be lying. Or they could be telling the truth as they currently understand it to be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 4240431, member: 277"] lol. what a disingenuous thought. No one has to be '100%' satisfied about the news to still give the updates coming from the government credence. A rational person understands that the early reports are almost never entirely correct. But that doesn't mean they are intentionally misleading, either. If another source has facts that contradict the official report, those should be considered too. But 'it doesn't look like i think it should look' isn't contradictory proof here. Nor is the fact the the bridge didn't have bumpers. That bridge had a previous strike that didn't cause this type of damage. [URL='https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/27/us/key-bridge-historic-crash-invs/index.html']Per a quick search, CNN had this[/URL] "In August 1980, a Japanese container ship crossing the Baltimore harbor lost propulsion about 600 yards from the Key Bridge after its electrical control board shorted out in the early morning hours. The ship then crashed into the bridge, colliding with one of its piers, according to a National Research Council report on ship-bridge collisions. The collision ripped out a 30-foot section of a protective structure around the bridge’s concrete piling, according to a 1981 article published in The Evening Sun newspaper that cited a Coast Guard report on the incident. But the piling itself was only chipped, not significantly damaged. The accident caused $500,000 in damage to the bridge and required $350,000 in ship repairs, the Sun reported." It goes on to point out one big difference is that ships are now much bigger. "One major difference between the two accidents was the size of the ship. Data from the maritime tracking website MarineTraffic suggests the ship that crashed into the bridge in 1980, then known as Blue Nagoya, was about a third of the length and a fraction of the weight of the Dali." So yeah, the government and news sources could be lying. Or they could be telling the truth as they currently understand it to be. [/QUOTE]
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