Beat: Live next to 35W bridge collapse

[luckbox666]

For those of you who haven't heard, a big bridge (about 1/2 mile long, 4 lane and bumper to bumper with traffic) in Minneapolis collapsed last night over the Mississippi River, sending 50+ cars into the water 70 feet below. Big mess. 4 confirmed deaths, 30 still missing. I live a few blocks away.
Beat: this sucks ass

[killsadie]

[Sphere99991]

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For those of you who haven't heard, a big bridge (about 1/2 mile long, 4 lane and bumper to bumper with traffic) in Minneapolis collapsed last night over the Mississippi River, sending 50+ cars into the water 70 feet below. Big mess. 4 confirmed deaths, 30 still missing. I live a few blocks away.
Beat: this sucks ass

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What the [censored] is wrong with our infrastructure that the pyramids, random Incan temples, and the Coliseum are in damn good condition after thousands of years but with modern technology bridges collapse after 30 ?

[Bakes]

.....cuz millions of cars don't drive on the pyramids every day

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

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What the [censored] is wrong with our infrastructure that the pyramids, random Incan temples, and the Coliseum are in damn good condition after thousands of years but with modern technology bridges collapse after 30 ?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but millions of cars don't drive over those things every year.

[Flintoff]

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What the [censored] is wrong with our infrastructure that the pyramids, random Incan temples, and the Coliseum are in damn good condition after thousands of years but with modern technology bridges collapse after 30 ?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but millions of cars don't drive over those things every year.

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Imagine what Egyptians could have done with steel.

[Georgia Avenue]

Just looked it up, only 500,000 cars drive up and down the steps of incan temples every year, and with the pyramids it's even lower.

The coliseum is a Nascar race track now so it's hard to calculate wear and tear.

[luckbox666]

about 600k/day was what I heard on the news

[Sphere99991]

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What the [censored] is wrong with our infrastructure that the pyramids, random Incan temples, and the Coliseum are in damn good condition after thousands of years but with modern technology bridges collapse after 30 ?

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Correct me if I'm wrong but millions of cars don't drive over those things every year.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but this bridge was designed to have millions of cars drive over it, no? What happened, the 1,000,001st car broke it?

[pdoran10]

beat: i do too. 6 blocks away.
Refuse to go down there and look at it. Just seems too eerie.