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Well, I suppose somebody on the right side of the political aisle needs to be the voice of reason regarding the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, and since I’ve been seeing so many bone-crushingly stupid social media posts about it…I’m happy to step in.
Before I delve into some of this nonsense, allow me to say just how pleased I am that so many people who have been held as political prisoners in empty Wal-Marts since the Obama regime are now able to gain internet access.
It’s truly heart-warming.
Okay, one of the things I’ve seen posted over the past week, time and time again (and usually accompanied by the video) is that the bridge was intentionally detonated, as per the sparks seen coming from the top of the superstructure as the bridge was collapsing. Are you kidding me? That bridge had lights on it…along the top of it and sides…and you have to run the electricity somewhere. Common sense would hopefully lead some to understand that the power for those lights is being run…WHERE THE FREAKIN’ LIGHTS ARE.
As the bridge collapsed, those lines would naturally stretch, and would quickly reach the snapping point…which they did. As power lines snap, and especially should they come into contact with metal, they will, and did send out a shower of sparks.
Besides, it doesn’t take a demolition expert to realize that during a planned, controlled demolition of a bridge, the explosives do NOT go off AFTER the bridge superstructure breaks apart.
Get a clue.
Secondly, I have seen far too many hair-brained posts regarding tug boats, and far too 
many people INSISTING that there are ALWAYS tugs to prevent just such a thing from happening. It took almost five minutes of research to find out that in Baltimore Harbor, while there are tug boats available…THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED for anything beyond helping a ship maneuver away from the dock…but can be summoned upon request. Were tugs summoned in this case? According to the NTSB…yes…but it takes a tug some time to get from point A to point B, and while we don’t know exactly where point A was in this case, we DO know that point B was NOT near point A.
In their initial play-back of the ship’s recordings, the NTSB said clearly that the Harbor Pilots DID indeed request a tug when they first lost power as is standard protocol.
Next up is the speed of the ship. We have been told, and it has been verified that the ship was moving at 8.7 knots when it lost power. That’s roughly 10 miles per hour. For all of those now claiming, and posting that the MV Dali was at full steam when it struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, you need to know that the MV Dali had a top speed, at full steam, of 22 knots.
For those who don’t know, 22 knots is roughly 25-25.5 miles per hour…a far cry from 8 
knots, or 10 miles per hour. The point is…the MV Dali was NOT at full steam when it struck the bridge…so quit saying it was.
That brings me to this…a good many people claim and have posted that the Dali had more than enough room to stop before hitting the bridge. The problem with those claims is that those making such claims have no knowledge of, or appreciation for…Inertia. Inertia is defined as, “a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force.” inertia of a body can be measured by its mass, which governs its resistance to the action of a force, and the mass of the MV Dali, when fully loaded, is nearly 116,000 tons, and as masses go, that’s massive.
If you don’t believe me about inertia, I suggest you look it up, but not on Google as I’m sure some of you empty Wal-Mart dwellers are sure that Google is in on the whole thing.
To be fair, once the Dali lost power, I don’t know how long, or what distance is required to stop, but I CAN tell you that at 116,000 tons, and at 8 knots, the inertia is not going to allow the ship to stop on a dime.
That brings us to the myriad of posts regarding dropping anchor.
While dropping anchor IS a good way to attempt to stop a moving ship…it’s not that simple. First, one has to determine how deep the water is where you want to drop anchor. Then you must calculate the correct amount of anchor scope (a 7:1 ratio is recommended) Once those things are done…drop away and good luck, but understand, it still won’t stop something that weighs 116,000 tons, moving at 8 knots on a dime.
According to the NTSB, Harbor Masters told the Harbor Pilots on the DALI to drop the port anchor, standard protocol for a ship adrift in the harbor, and photos of the now wrecked ship show that indeed, the port anchor had been dropped. For those who have spent the past decade in an empty Wal-Mart, the port anchor is the one on the left side of the ship.
“But…but…they steered the boat straight into the bridge support.” That’s yet another thing I’ve seen posted all over social media, so let me try to clear this up for you folks. Ships don’t steer like cars. Your car steers from the front, while ships steer from the real…more accurately, from the stern, not from the bow. As the DALI was coming from wherever it was docked, it was making a turn to starboard when it lost power. A ship’s rudder (that’s the steery thingy) is controlled by electronics and hydraulics. When the power is lost, so too are the electronics which control the hydraulics.
Hopefully, you have never been in a situation where, while driving your car, the engine shuts off, but if you have, you might notice it suddenly becomes very hard to turn your wheel (your car’s steery thingy) to easily move your 2 ton vehicle off the road. Imagine trying to do that if the vehicle you’re driving weighed 116,000 tons.
Also, watch the video again, and you can clearly see the stern of the Dali sliding to the camera’s right which tells me one of two things, either the rudder was hard to starboard (starboard being turned to the ship’s right) until the lights came back on, and in those brief few seconds, before they went out again, the ship straightened out, or the Pilots tried to reverse engines in a mover called “backing down” which, on a single prop ship, a prop being the sipnny thing at the back that makes a ship go, for you Wal-Martians, causes the stern of the ship to slide.
Then, because of inertia, and the shortened distance between the bow and the bridge support, stopping the Dali was not an option BUT, if you watch the light at the center of the Dali, you can see…just a second or two before impact…it moves to the camera’s right.
THAT tells ME that the pilot was engaged in a last second, desperate attempt to minimize the impact.
But what about back-up generators. All these ships have back-up generators. Yes, 
that’s true, but the back-up generators are set to engage 45 seconds after a ship loses power, and in this case, it looks as though it took nearly a full minute, at least in the part of the video we can see. That means that at 10mph, that ship had no power, and no steering for at least 880 feet that we know of, and when the main generator kicked back in, it still took another 10 seconds or roughly 146.667 more feet before they could restart the engine and steering was restored for a total of 1,026.667 feet of forward momentum without steering.
Here’s another thing I’ve seen way too much of, and that’s that the ship’s navigation system was hacked. No…no it wasn’t, and just a bit of research was needed to dispel THAT bit of nonsense. The MV Dali’s engines, and controls were connected to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition), as are most cargo vessels and SCADA is not connected to the Internet. In fact, should anyone onboard or elsewhere attempt to connect a SCADA system to the internet, the entire system shuts down.
Even if the Dali’s SCADA system was somehow taken over by malware, the lack of 
Internet connectivity would make it impossible for any hacker to steer it into the bridge.
Alrighty then, that brings me to all the crap I’ve seen on social media regarding this whole thing being a “red flag” or a “black swan” event…or maybe that was a red swan and a black flag, or a black swan waving a red flag…whatever. Anyway…who in the hell during a flag-waving swan event would call in a mayday, request tugs and at least try to drop anchor?
NOBODY…and the two Harbor Pilots onboard the Dali did ALL of those things.
Now, let me address quite possibly THE most inane, knot-headed posts I’ve seen over the past week related to the collision with, and collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Here’s the post, “Question. Who was casually filming the bridge for no reason, why so many videos?”
Oh-Good-LORD.
Haven’t some of you dipsticks ever heard of security or traffic cameras? They’re EVERYWHERE. And before you post anything else and go to the kitchen for another cup of coffee, put your damned pants back on…your toaster is taking pictures of you and sending them to China.
Not everything is some wild conspiracy, and not everything you are told is an attempted cover up. This has all, and I mean ALL the hallmarks of a catastrophic, yet somewhat preventable ACCIDENT, and it’s going to take a long time to rebuild that bridge before Joe Biden can ride the train over it again. Now, to be clear, I’m not sure what train Joe was referring to, as there have never been tracks on that bridge, but I’m pretty sure his train of thought derailed long ago.
And finally, I know life is hard, even with the internet, when you’re being held captive in an empty Wal-Mart, but the over-crowding is about to be taken care of. It was announced a couple of weeks ago that soon, very soon, there will be 1,000 empty Family Dollar stores all around the country.
Do yourselves a favor, and before you post any more conspiracy crap…request a transfer.
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