[Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?

[Scott Dredge]

I'd guess you wouldn't lose sight of the bigger picture Sunil.  Meanwhile Tom is easily distracted by things like spindly bridges and pesky power lines as if those things can't be easily managed.  Also note that Tom's best case scenario opinion is that 'megaloads are not transported through Idaho AT ALL!!'  Tom further asked 'Verstehen sie?'.  No, I don't see Tom's point considering if megaloads are routed around Idaho they'll still ultimately make it the tar sands.

From: sunilramalingam at hotmail.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 07:04:46 -0700
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?




Well Scott,

You know how we environmentalists lose sight of the ecological devastation of the tar sands oil extraction efforts and get upset about water purification.

Sunil

From: scooterd408 at hotmail.com
To: kmmos1 at frontier.com; vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 16:10:55 -0600
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?




Ken writes:
> Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting
    information
> from bridgehunter.com that includes results from a
    bridge inspection in August, 2012:

    >

    > http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/ 

    

    If megaloads are planned to cross this bridge, expect a lot of bellyaching from Tom and others.  If it's just people driving their cars over it who are risk of death and injury, expect no one to care.  You need to keep in mind that the megaload movements need to be blocked because their payload is intended for water purification.  That's the real outrage.

-Scott


Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 15:02:47 -0700
From: kmmos1 at frontier.com
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A 1.6 million-pound megaload, huh?


  
    
  
  
    

    On 5/20/2014 12:57 PM, Kenneth Marcy
      wrote:

    
    
      
      

      On 5/20/2014 12:25 PM, Saundra Lund
        wrote:

      
      
        
        
        
        
        
          What

              an asinine thing to say.  But, if we’re going for the
              truly absurd, which both Scott and Gary seem to want,
              saying that a best case scenario for those objecting to
              the mega-loads would be a catastrophic bridge collapse is
              like saying that a best case scenario for those who
              worship at the 2A alter is for more school shootings so
              that one will eventually happen in a school where a 2Aer
              has a gun to “take out” the goblin and hence make the
              ideal 2”A trumps all” case.
        
      
      

      Your use of the words goblin and catastrophic bridge collapse
      remind me of a new book title -- Raising Steam -- which is the
      40th volume in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of humorous
      fantasy entertainments.  I borrowed the audio book version of this
      title from the local library and used it to acclimatize myself to
      a new pair of headphones -- wireless ones this time -- and was
      quite pleased with the performance of the audio performer Stephen
      Briggs of Terry Pratchett's text.

      

      The relevance of this material to the matter at hand is merely to
      note that, unlike in Discworld, when it seems necessary to move
      very heavy loads across bridges that may be either non-existent or
      not designed for such heavy loads, additional calculations and
      engineering are strongly advised.  In this world, unlike in
      Discworld, solutions involving the surreptitious use of magical
      municipal assets are not available.  Getting and applying the
      knowledge of the sliding rule, as one of the book's characters
      would suggest, is a prerequisite for becoming a master engineer
      and successfully solving such problems.

    
    

    Yes, I am replying to myself in order to transmit some interesting
    information from bridgehunter.com that includes results from a
    bridge inspection in August, 2012:

    

    http://bridgehunter.com/id/bonner/30120/ 

    

    

    Ken

    

  


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