Explosion at Texas Fertilizer Plant

[Flacker]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

The entire human population on earth can fit in Texas and each human would get an acre... With room to grow.

Yeah, no. Texas is approximately 171.9 million acres by my math, not even close.

[Thor]

Originally Posted by valo403

The proximity of this facility to residential neighborhoods, including nursing homes and schools is amazing.

There is a playground that is the closest to it, right across the street!

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by Flacker

Yeah, no. Texas is approximately 171.9 million acres by my math, not even close.

Well that's what I get for passing on pub talk without actually looking it up first...

[jar_e]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

Well that's what I get for passing on pub talk without actually looking it up first...

I think the stat is the entire earth's population could live in Texas covering every square inch of it and there was an allotted sq/ft for each person or something like that.

edit: in my two seconds of google searching, http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/201...-fit-in-texas/

He said he did the calculations, and the entire world could fit in Texas if each person were alloted the same average square feet of living space as in New York City.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by jar_e

I think the stat is the entire earth's population could live in Texas covering every square inch of it and there was an allotted sq/ft for each person or something like that.

edit: in my two seconds of google searching, http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/201...-fit-in-texas/

128 square yards per person or 107 m squared. If the math is sound and I'm in entertainment sooooo...

[Dan02]

yikes, cnn is reporting 35 fatalities and counting

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

The entire human population on earth can fit in Texas and each human would get an acre... With room to grow.

Haha you said this once in a previous thread and got corrected. You really gotta get this tidbit out of your head. Cause for some reason it seems to be firmly planted in your head.

Way Way WAYYYY WAYYYYYYY off.

Like not even close to close to nearby to beside the ballpark.

Like really really far off.

Sounds like it was probably passed on by some ignorant Texan. For some reason they like to brag about this size of it.

Just ask them if they can find Quebec on the map. Far FAR larger. Not that it really matters

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Dan02

yikes, cnn is reporting 35 fatalities and counting

Yet somehow this is taking a back seat to Boston.

Originally Posted by Daradon

Sounds like it was probably passed on by some ignorant Texan. For some reason they like to brag about this size of it.

Which seems weird when Alaska is substantially larger than Texas.

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by pylon

Yet somehow this is taking a back seat to Boston.



Which seems weird when Alaska is substantially larger than Texas.

Heheh yeah, but you don't hear Alaskans claiming everything is bigger in Alaska.

Though I've heard you can see Russia from there...

[vanisleflamesfan]

Originally Posted by Thor

There is a playground that is the closest to it, right across the street!

Good thing kids don't use playgrounds anymore.

[Oling_Roachinen]

Originally Posted by pylon

Yet somehow this is taking a back seat to Boston.

Shouldn't be surprising. As terrible of a tragedy this avoidable accident was, it's not going to compare to a terrorist attack that resulted in a shootout, police killed and a manhunt that shut down an entire town.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by pylon

Yet somehow this is taking a back seat to Boston.

Why is that surprising? One is a targeted attack and one is a tragic accident. People can accept that tragic accidents, even at a large scale, will occur in life. It's much more difficult to process the idea of people targeting us for death and maiming as we simply go about our daily lives.

[Resolute 14]

Not to mention that the Boston story is still developing at a fast rate. There are only three things left in this story: the final casualty count, the lawsuits and the inquiry that finds cause.

[Stay Golden]

Originally Posted by Dan02

yikes, cnn is reporting 35 fatalities and counting

80 homes, the nursing home, the plant itself. I wouldn't be surprised if the death total is easily over 100. Tragic story.
At this time people are are being reported as simply missing.

[Resolute 14]

Yup. At this point, reported dead + reported missing = actually dead. And that will be a little over 70 at this point. In the case of the missing firefighters, I'm not thinking it likely they even find bodies to bury.

[To Be Quite Honest]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Haha you said this once in a previous thread and got corrected. You really gotta get this tidbit out of your head. Cause for some reason it seems to be firmly planted in your head.

It must have roots! I don't remember mentioning it before, but I probably could have had a few pops in me the last time.

The loss in this town is terrible and astronomically short sighted...

[Daradon]

Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest

It must have roots! I don't remember mentioning it before, but I probably could have had a few pops in me the last time.

The loss in this town is terrible and astronomically short sighted...

Yeah just having some fun with you, I was having some serious deja vu there. Your quote was basically verbatim.

Back to the topic, Texas is known for it's lax business regs. The whole conservative cowboy deal. There's no reason why a fertilizer plant should be that close to those residential type buildings.