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Here's a hilarious Fark thread on the increasing desperation of the Truthers in the wake of the Oakland bridge collapse:
I heard the tanker driver took driving lessons but didn't want to learn how to park.
[Via LGF, who has a great graphic]
[A couple minutes later]
Oh, my gosh. There is a web site devoted to it. I'm pretty sure that it's satirical, but with these people it's hard to tell. Either way, it's pretty funny.
Posted by Rand Simberg at May 02, 2007 05:50 AM
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I heard some idiot make a comment: "the steel didn't melt, it just weakened, and that's why the bridge collapsed. Fire doesn't melt steel...". Though the first part is probably true, I wonder what the idiot thought happened to the steel truck?
Posted by Leland at May 2, 2007 06:26 AM
A couple of weeks ago, a tanker overturned and exploded here in the Tampa area on the I-375 overpass. That steel didn't melt!
Huh, how do you explain that????
Could it be that it's because the Tampa area is solidly "red" while the Oakland area is true "blue?"
I'm sure Darth Rove didn't want to upset his loyal servants in Tampa, so he ensured that the 375 bridge did NOT collapse! It's all the Bushitler's fault.
He's simultaneously too stupid to breathe, yet smart enough to manipulate every world event to his benefit!
Posted by Bob at May 2, 2007 06:48 AM
Rand, your link to 429truth.org is broken.
Posted by Bob at May 2, 2007 06:53 AM
Sorry, fixed.
Posted by at May 2, 2007 06:58 AM
I think somebody needs to make a chickenwire overpass model....
Posted by Jim Bennett at May 2, 2007 09:14 AM
Leland: That's the part the Truther types never seem to notice anyway - the WTC didn't collapse because the steel support beams and floor clips "melted"; it did so because they were weakened by heat, and because the wildly uneven heating over their length caused warping.
The crashes and fires didn't melt the steel support beams ... but didn't need to, either.
Posted by Sigivald at May 2, 2007 10:47 AM
I'm pretty sure that it's satirical, but with these people it's hard to tell.
You trying to tell me that picture of Cheney isn't real?!
Posted by cam at May 2, 2007 10:59 AM
Hi Rand,
I read through that thread yesterday. One of the posters there started the web-page to poke more fun at the 'truthers'.
There is another web-site that is pretty funny. It is shorter and a little crude, but very good. It is http://www.maddox.xmission.com/. Check out the top 2 links.
Posted by Tom W. at May 2, 2007 12:47 PM
Sigivald,
What you say is very true. Of course, explaining plastic deformation to the "truthers" is just a waste of time.
Posted by Leland at May 3, 2007 07:10 PM
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