Chinese State Media Say Bullet Train Derails, Falls Off Bridge

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[nuconvert]

BEIJING -- A Chinese news agency says two cars from a high-speed train derailed and fell off a bridge but there is no immediate word on casualties.

[A. Morgan]

There’s a reason this came from XINHUANET and not FOX.

[mylife]

Obama says Chinese infrastructure vastly superior to US

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Barky Insane Obama, Aug 21, 2008: “Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are vastly the superior to us now, which means if you are a corporation deciding where to do business, you’re starting to think, ‘Beijing looks like a pretty good option.’”

[Enterprise]

ROFL!

Kill an enemy and then go have lots of sex. Hey, it's a guy thing.

[Doogle]

eyup....shovel ready jobs in China.

[blueunicorn6]

“They’d ram the swimmer with the bang stick” - In San Francisco Bay?

[moshiach]

The latest nightmarish reminder for those that EDC, not only should you be CCW but just as important carry a first aid kit in your travels.

Cause the first responder on the scene (as a survivor) is you.

[Zhang Fei]

Party retards boasted that their bullet train technology (stolen from Japan and Germany) exceeded speeds achieved in their foreign counterparts based purely on Chinese innovation. In reality, they merely pushed cloned technology beyond the speed limits set by the Japanese and German companies that came up with the technology. Why did these speed limits exist? For safety reasons. The odds are that none of the Chinese decision-makers who came up with the idea of exceeding the maximum safe speeds were in the two derailed coaches.

[AU72]

Another Obama fave fail.

[Grizzled Bear]

Where is Willie Green when you need him?

[Salvavida]

Then, he’d jet off to find a pod of female porpoises and have sex. There was no getting the porpoises back until they were darned good and satisfied. (It’s probably the uniform harness. No species can resist a Navy guy in uniform.)

The only thing left out of the porpoise's misson profile is heavy drinking, foul language, a busted bar stool, and Shore Patrol dragging him back to the ship.

[RayChuang88]

This is one of the big problems with “bullet” trains—if a major accident occurs the death toll can be quite frightening because the impact speeds will be well over 100 mph, as shown by the disaster with Deutsche Bahn ICE trainset derailing and hitting/collapsing a bridge at 200 km/h back in 1998, killing 101 passengers and seriously injuring 88 passengers.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

...along with a number of other people who will remain nameless

None of whom are more supremely deserving.

[expatpat]

The odds are that none of the Chinese decision-makers who came up with the idea of exceeding the maximum safe speeds were in the two derailed coaches.

They may well be executed, though.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Chinese engineering still leaves something to be desired. It might be a case of politicians not leaving the engineers alone, or it may be a case of the engineers not quite being up to snuff, but China continues to have engineering problems. It could be they just bite off more than they can chew and refuse to believe there is nothing they can’t tame.

Look at the Three Gorges Damn. I almost want to say “when not if” that dam fails, it will be biblical. I’m being a bit extreme in saying it “will fail”. I don’t really know. But it has been cracking since 1999 and it has been rapidly silting up behind the dam. I’m not talking about problems like the reservoir being a massive garbage dump for everything from gasoline, toxic chemicals to radiological waste. I’m talking about the dam structurally failing.

Just biblical. I think there is a significant chance we will see that dam fail.

Then again, maybe that is the purpose of the dam. A politically acceptable way to kill 50 million rural poor people. Half joking on that one.

[MinuteGal]

Was this bridge over water or land?

Leni

[B4Ranch]

I agree. That’s a when , not an if. Because it was admittedly built with low grade concrete.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Bring your shovel to bury the dead passengers.

[rawhide]

[Mr. Lucky]

If any of you youngsters on this thread know how to post a video, you might do a Google search on: “pacing NW 611” and post the resulting example of high speed rail done right.