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Space Shuttle Collides With Bridge In New York

Posted by timothy on from the all-this-to-avoid-the-tunnel-toll dept.

First time accepted submitter AbrasiveCat writes "While transporting the space shuttle Enterprise to its new home at the Intrepid Museum, a gust of wind caught the shuttle and pushed a wing tip into the South Channel Subway Bridge. With any luck it was just the protective covering that was damaged. Ah, New York traffic."

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  1. Blast. by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    We were hoping that Britain would provide something of a buffer; but it looks like metric wind is making its way from the EU after all...

  2. It was on a boat by wookaru · · Score: 5, Informative

    The summary should reflect that the Space Shuttle was being transported on top of a barge at the time of collision. Very low speed impact, very little damage. Headline is misleadingly catastrophic.

    1. Re:It was on a boat by TWX · · Score: 5, Informative

      Low speed doesn't mean little damage necessarily.

      A barge is fairly heavy, and if it's being pulled with the current, there's a whole lot of energy behind it. The shuttle could act like the crumple zone on a car in a collision, essentially being crushed in the process of slowing or stopping the barge.

      --
      Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
    2. Re:It was on a boat by MBAFK · · Score: 5, Informative

      This page is more informative and has the damage photos: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-060412a.html

      Doesn't look too bad.

  3. Re:Ease up on the hyperbole please. by Tanktalus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod parent up to +10. There's NOTHING worse than hyperbole. If I had a nickel for every time I saw unnecessary hyperbole, I'd be a BILLIONAIRE by now. If I could jump as over the top as these headlines get, I could out-leap Superman over tall buildings! Excessive use of hyperbole is worse than SATAN rising from the DEPTHS OF HELL, spewing HELLFIRE on everyone!

    Or, maybe, just maybe, you need to take a valium. Not sure.

  4. New Yorkers... by Sez+Zero · · Score: 5, Funny

    THIS is why you CAN'T have nice things!

  5. No Business in NYC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm so glad New York City got a Space Shuttle instead of the National Museum of the United State Air Force. That way, citizens can pay to see it (NMUSAF is totally free--including parking), in a setting that makes sense (there were carrier-based space shuttles, right?) and it's clustered next to another shuttle (less than eight hours NYC to DC, vs. putting it towards the center of the country). Further, this shows that the Intrepid museum is already providing the lack of care they have provided other artifacts.

  6. So, by hackertourist · · Score: 5, Funny

    these are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise?