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haele

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8. You thought the roads in DC were bad before...

Reply to Vinca (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 7, 2025, 11:58 AM

Jun 2025

Not sure any of the bridges can take even the amount of APCs they'll be using; if they use tanks, there's going to be serious structural damage.
Not to mention going over areas of the roads where the Metro is a subway.

I may not be an infrastructure engineer, but my understanding is that the laws of physics work the same no matter what field of study, religion, or philosophy one has, and is not bordered by whatever reality one chooses to build.

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