Friday, August 10, 2007

In the middle of George Bush losing support from his own party on a failed surge strategy in Iraq and with democrats resurgent in the congress something terrible happened in Minneapolis. Like the rest of you I watched in horror the news coverage of the disaster. The slow motion video of the bridge falling over and over something bothered me about it but I couldn't put my finger on it. Over the next few days I studied photographs and videos of bridge collapses from around the country.

Then in looking at the pictures I kept seeing something over and over. Unlike every other bridge collapse photo the I 35 bridge photos showed the same deformation and displacement patterns that one would see from a controlled demolition.

Don't take my word for it look at the following pictures: