Failure in China. I’m shocked. Next thing we will hear is that their new aircraft carrier was sunk by dolphins.
Maybe I am an evil person, but I just wish Thomas Friedman could have been in one of those two cars.
Uighurs?
Was Willie Green aboard?
....And suddenly millions of liberals across the world felt great sadness!
Two coaches of a bullet train fell off a bridge after derailing in east China’s Zhejiang Province late Saturday, local fire fighting sources said.
The details of casualties are unknown at the moment.
The train numbered D3115 from the provincial capital Hangzhou to the city of Wenzhou derailed at the section of Shuangyu Town in Wenzhou at 8:34 p.m., said fire fighters from Wenzhou.
Rescue personnel were rushing to the scene.
Every time I read one of these stories I think about the fact that the new San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge was built in China....
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/traffic&id=8245105
A quarter million San Franciscans and Oaklanders every day. I honestly don’t know whether I should laugh or cry....
Sounds like China needs to rebuild their infrastructure...
Of possible interest.
willie??
Paging Willie....... are you out there Willie?
Paging Willie Green!!
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.
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.
Another Obama fave fail.
Where is Willie Green when you need him?
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.
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.
Leni