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Bridge collapses in Kentucky after being rammed by hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts
Daily Mail ^

Posted on 01/27/2012 12:02:50 PM PST by Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Incredible images emerged of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night.

In the pictures, the 312-foot Delta Mariner idles, still partially in the bridge's path, and clearly looks much too large to fit beneath the aging Eggner Ferry Bridge, which crosses the Kentucky Lake Reservoir.

The cargo vessel was carrying space rocket parts for the United Launch Alliance, intended for a vehicle that was scheduled to be shot into orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092796/Bridge-collapses-Kentucky-rammed-hulking-freighter-carrying-space-launch-equipment.html#ixzz1kgpuK4pc

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; nasa
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To: Hoffer Rand

LOL! Or when an employee walks through with the company moving truck and gives the news to his boss!


61 posted on 01/27/2012 1:30:24 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Erik Latranyi; lightman
They had actually started pre-construction planning for a replacement bridge just last month. I guess they now have strong incentive to go ahead and complete the project.

I've been over this bridge several times over the past few years. It is (or was) considerably lower than most of the other bridges at Land Between the Lakes.

62 posted on 01/27/2012 1:39:05 PM PST by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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To: dinodino

He wouldn’t have cleared anyway.


63 posted on 01/27/2012 1:39:24 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Beelzebubba

LOL... and then he experienced that brief bit of time known as the “Ohnosecond”...


64 posted on 01/27/2012 1:54:32 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I'd give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Is this now called a “shovel ready project”????


65 posted on 01/27/2012 2:28:30 PM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: mylife

Is that a problem?


66 posted on 01/27/2012 4:52:33 PM PST by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a NASA space pod!!)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

Too bad this didn’t happen in Webster, KY. Everybody would have been able to refer to it as “Unabridged Webster.”


67 posted on 01/27/2012 5:03:42 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Mountain Bike Vomit Carnage

First thing that came to my mind when I saw this picture was, there is the ship of America being steered by Obama and his crew. They just drove through the bridge to the future and have halted America in it’s place.


68 posted on 01/27/2012 8:14:37 PM PST by Jack Burton007 (This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express, and I'm talkin' to whoever's listenin' out there.)
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