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Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by pkay » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:14 pm

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I know americans can comprehend but not sure europeans can wrap their heads around how big the state of texas is and how much if it is unpopulated wooded area.

Think something like 300k acres burned already with no end in sight.

We went to see the San Angelo fire this morning. Literally miles upon miles of nothing but fire.

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by LACE » Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:46 pm

Ah, every year..
I was working at the Griffith Observatory in LA when that fire broke out..

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by ht2 » Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:10 pm

yeeee haw !!!! hope its a busy fire season can't wait till we get some up here

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by spire » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:05 pm

pkay wrote:We went to see the San Angelo fire this morning. Literally miles upon miles of nothing but fire.
Fuck i used to live there, hadnt even heard anything about this.

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Post by knell » Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:08 pm

LACE wrote: I was working at the Griffith Observatory in LA when that fire broke out..
woah, what did you do there? seems like it'd be an awesome place to work

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Post by mks » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:12 am

pkay wrote:
I know americans can comprehend but not sure europeans can wrap their heads around how big the state of texas is and how much if it is unpopulated wooded area.
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by jameshk » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:35 am

mks wrote:
pkay wrote:
I know americans can comprehend but not sure europeans can wrap their heads around how big the state of texas is and how much if it is unpopulated wooded area.
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Post by isiahfire » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:00 am

jameshk wrote:
mks wrote:
pkay wrote:
I know americans can comprehend but not sure europeans can wrap their heads around how big the state of texas is and how much if it is unpopulated wooded area.
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Holy fuck! :o
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Post by clifford_- » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:03 am

i knew it was big....
but thats suprised me!
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by knell » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:07 am

and that's only 14.09% of the united states' landmass! what's this then? the UK coming to a stark realization? maybe some political perspective? better not get ahead of myself here...
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Post by nowaysj » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:08 am

What was it, 5, 6, 7 years ago in la, was wicked fires. The sky was just constantly dim and red. Couldn't even play basketball indoors cause the floor was covered in ash and was too slippery, and the fires were like 90 miles away. Fucking hard to breath. Went on for weeks. I remember thinking, like enough bro, no more fires. haha.

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by isiahfire » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:15 am

knell wrote:and that's only 14.09% of the united states' landmass! what's this then? the UK coming to a stark realization? maybe some political perspective? better not get ahead of myself here...
Nah, I think its just that we spend all our lives looking at those bullshit maps that don't show true proportion, we're fully aware we're small and insignificant in a geographical sense.

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Post by knell » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:18 am

nowaysj wrote:What was it, 5, 6, 7 years ago in la, was wicked fires. The sky was just constantly dim and red. Couldn't even play basketball indoors cause the floor was covered in ash and was too slippery, and the fires were like 90 miles away. Fucking hard to breath. Went on for weeks. I remember thinking, like enough bro, no more fires. haha.

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If y'all think texas is big, shall we do an alaska comparison?

glad i wasn't around for those fires....

and it's weird for me to think about alaska as part of the US... seems like it's the last frontier

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by knell » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:23 am

isiahfire wrote:
knell wrote:and that's only 14.09% of the united states' landmass! what's this then? the UK coming to a stark realization? maybe some political perspective? better not get ahead of myself here...
Nah, I think its just that we spend all our lives looking at those bullshit maps that don't show true proportion, we're fully aware we're small and insignificant in a geographical sense.
didn't mean just that, it's that the US is so vast in geography, that the same governing techniques advocated in Europe take on a different context when applied to a country that could well be divided into 40+ countries

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Post by nowaysj » Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:27 am

Which was kind of the plan, then we had that civil war thingie.
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by LACE » Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:32 am

knell wrote:
LACE wrote: I was working at the Griffith Observatory in LA when that fire broke out..
woah, what did you do there? seems like it'd be an awesome place to work
Hosted the Planetarium shows for the kiddies =)

That fire nearly destroyed the Observatory..ugh. Heeby Jeebies just thinking about it.
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by clifford_- » Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:46 am

knell wrote:
didn't mean just that, it's that the US is so vast in geography, that the same governing techniques advocated in Europe take on a different context when applied to a country that could well be divided into 40+ countries
i believe this is why theres alot of shit that goes on in your country...
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by k block » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:06 pm

mks wrote:
pkay wrote:
I know americans can comprehend but not sure europeans can wrap their heads around how big the state of texas is and how much if it is unpopulated wooded area.
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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by isiahfire » Wed Apr 20, 2011 12:16 pm

knell wrote:
isiahfire wrote:
knell wrote:and that's only 14.09% of the united states' landmass! what's this then? the UK coming to a stark realization? maybe some political perspective? better not get ahead of myself here...
Nah, I think its just that we spend all our lives looking at those bullshit maps that don't show true proportion, we're fully aware we're small and insignificant in a geographical sense.
didn't mean just that, it's that the US is so vast in geography, that the same governing techniques advocated in Europe take on a different context when applied to a country that could well be divided into 40+ countries
Was thinking about this not long ago, could you foresee a point in the (perhaps not so distant) future when the centralized government loses control, dividing the country into autonomous states? Or is shit actually pretty stable over there?

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Re: Texas Wildfires Viewable From Space

Post by collige » Wed Apr 20, 2011 1:24 pm

Most states are pretty autonomous when it comes to having their own laws. Unfortunately, that also makes it take a lot longer for any sort of national civil rights change to take place.
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