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Bridge collapses while being commissioned in DR Congo.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1566905261805248513

Afro engineering

Last ones out of the tree.

That was a load-bearing ribbon.

Them engineerings is always over engineering everything. No need to pay a pro, I got this boss.

Post-tensioning strand

Somehow, White folks are to blame.

Democrats must’ve designed it.

This is what "Affirmative Action" gets you; a fake bridge.

And the only thing holding the bridge up.
Maybe next time they will cut the right ribbon

Are the fish OK?

LOL tweeted on there.

Ol' girl almost stuck dude with those scissors.

That's hilarious

https://nitter.net/i/status/1566905261805248513

this is a clean link

Bridge over the River Kwanzaa

LOL

Who taught these individuals about ribbon cutting ceremonies without first giving them a lesson about producing something worth a ribbon..? Almost as bad as that divershitty, 100 % female "engineering" team that built the bridge @FIU that killed half a dozen.

I was thinking the same dumb bastids sounded like they was cheering

I noticed the "man" stuck his arm out to impede the woman's egress off whatever that "structure" was, rather than make sure she made good her departure. What a gallant fellow.

They are dumb, always have been, always will be!

Holy schidt. It was made of PVC pipe and old roof metal.

I gotta give 'em credit, though, for making it last that long!

The most serendipitous thing I've seen in a coons age.

What is it a bridge over? Crocodile infested water?

Probably a schitt ditch

Chinese steel , Indian engineering , and Congolese workmanship…what could possibly go wrong ?

It's a Jenkem collection canal.

Now that is some funny shiiit right there....How can you f up a walk bridge...Oh wait, where was it...makes sense now.

Need a new ribbon to block it off now.

No cshit, Bunch of damn fools

Lol, well........The White gal cutting the ribbon was the biggest one there......

What Congo Wrong?

Umm.... definitely not White...

Diversity is our strength.

Sad part is, probably $10 million of our tax payer dollars built that...

LMAO.

Tampered with, by the White community on the other side?

Broad looked pretty shook up.

Wonder if she'll ever get over it?

China Belt and Road?

GreggH

That women wasn't white, just bleached blonde.

After further review, apparently so. Now THAT took some engineering.

I'd like to see it from a different angle. Mainly, how many were on it. It looked like a foot bridge, not designed to carry a semi.

Build back better!!!!!

Thoroughbred ch!mp...

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Well the concept of the wheel was pretty much eluding them for 1000,s of years.

Now trying simple bridges in 2022...

I bet those blacks were rolling on the ground with laughter. They like nothing better than watching a goos fall. Ha Ha

Yep

Boi, thet right there can get your ass put on restriction. Ask eyeball, Hanco.

Posted that many times before, just black peoples dancing

From GA Tech

They're gonna rename it "London Bridge".

Well maybe if they are doing any thinking at all them jambonies will cut the ribbon next time from the abutment side.lol that was genuine kneeger rigged...lol ..mb

That is the new ad for brainless Biden's build back better

Pretty consistent.

Diversity hires.

Sure was!!!

More video:

https://twitter.com/tsek_official/status/1567024786810847232

Bruce

Powerful read. The meme of Rome 4000 years ago side by side with a representation of Africa today.
Amazing.
Then again, You have to consider our own continent of Native Americans were similarly backward.

NASA is pushing hard to get a more diverse workforce, seems to me like there is a helluva talent pool in the Democratic Republic of Congo that would be a good fit for the NASA mission goals.

I like your signature lines

That was awesome. Thanks for the chuckles.

Holy crap, part of it was made out of an old truck frame.

During NASA's 1st decade, they tried hard to get a diverse workforce. They even sent talent scouts around the country to visit universities to find good qualified black candidates. They found very few. The problem was simply that the blacks didn't take the hard advanced courses, math, physics, engineering, etc.

Like the man said, Afro Engineering!

Oh yeah…there used to be an nursery rhyme along those same lines 😮

Do all these comments include the Florida bridge collapse before opening in 2018 that killed 6 people, and was designed by a Florida company?

Link: Bridge

Link: Company



Phil

Party pooper.

You rather live in Florida or the DRC bitchtits?

No, just pointing out that [bleep] happens, even here.... funniest one I can remember is the $240 million dollar NOAA N-Prime satellite that was dumped on the floor back in 2003, due to no one checking to make sure that it was bolted to the cradle during repositioning.

Link: On the floor

Yesterday was the anniversary of that little mishap.


Phil

Big fug up

Schmidt happens!

Back in engineering school, we were told a 'true' story of a village in South America that had a problem. They were a thriving farming community but were limited in getting their produce to market. The only route was via a rickety wooden bridge over a deep gorge that would only support one man and a loaded donkey cart. The local powers to be figured they could afford a single lane replacement bridge that would carry a loaded truck, so they got an engineer with the local Peace Corp group to design it for them. He figured a 10,000 lb design loading would suit their needs and worked up a design using local materials.

When it was finished, they had a big ribbon cutting that included the first loaded truck crossing it to go to market. As the truck started across, the bridge shook so badly that the driver quickly reversed and got off the thing. The engineer was called in. He checked his calculations and realized that he'd dropped a decimal point. Instead of 10,000 lbs, the load capacity of the bridge was 1000 lbs. So, the village had a nice new bridge that had eaten up all their available funds.....and that would only carry one man and a loaded donkey cart safely.

The object of the story was that paying attention to the little stuff, like decimal places, was VERY important. I preferred to think of it in terms of the old saying; doctors bury their mistakes, lawyers put theirs in jail, and engineers build monuments to theirs!

It turns out that making mistakes is how we learn.

That's why I'm always a little trepidatious about taking my mint condition, pre-64, Winchester Super Grade out of the safe, and never shoot it. Put a scratch on it, and its value instantly drops several hundred dollars.

What if it was designed to fail during the ribbon cutting? Then the builder would be clever. I find it interesting that the collapse occurred at the very moment the fat lady tried to cut the ribbon.

Just a little coincidental, right?