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"Contact" is a weird choice of words.
by jojobas 11mo ago
"Contact" is a weird choice of words.
- charles_f 11mo agoThought the same, bridge is fallen on its entire length, sounds like a way to undersell it. Such an opportunity to pass on clickbait is interesting in this day and age.
- dhosek 11mo agoI’m not sure that the NTSB is really in the clickbait business. But yes, contact does seem to really be underselling the event.
- crote 11mo agoNot really, because that's where that part of the investigation ends. Pre-contact everything is about the ship and why it hit anything, post-contact everything is about the bridge and why it collapsed. The ship part of the investigation wouldn't look significantly different if the bridge had remained (mostly) intact, or if the ship had run aground inside the harbor instead.
- nocoiner 11mo agoYeah, when the word “allision” was right there!
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoRight? Like when I read that I thought we're talking a little paint-swapping. No, we are not talking a little paint-swapping.
- analog31 11mo agoReminds me of "fetched up" describing what happened to the Exxon Valdez.