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Landslide

Landslide

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Never thought about it really but it makes sense. The start of new wars?

Interesting documentary

 
I’ve put millions of pounds of sand into the ground fracking. It’s cheap. Cheaper than the millions and millions of gallons (bbls actually) of water I used to move it with. This is sensationalism. Mother Nature probably moves billions of tons around annually. It’s just out to see under the water. With the right weather event billions of tons will be brought back up on shore and that too will be a news worthy catastrophe.
 
Maybe the changes noted in the video could be at least partially attributed to the nature of things, in similar fashion to how 'climate change' is no more than the planet's natural warming/cooling cycle. 10K years from now there might be too much sand in areas where people are currently complaining about its disappearance.

Interesting film. I found it interesting how a few markets really screwed themselves by overbuilding (China, Spain, UAE).
 
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More shit posting by Linkslide
 
KenV said:
Maybe the changes noted in the video could be at least partially attributed to the nature of things, in similar fashion to how 'climate change' is no more than the planet's natural warming/cooling cycle. 10K years from now there might be too much sand in areas where people are currently complaining about its disappearance.

Interesting film. I found it interesting how a few markets really screwed themselves by overbuilding (China, Spain, UAE).
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Didn't I watch a top gear episode some desert is basically eating towns?


 
Stingray said:
Didn't I watch a top gear episode some desert is basically eating towns?
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20+ years ago, some professor told me China was losing (some alarmingly large amount of) land every year to desertification.

(IIRC, the message® was that we had to pay to reverse climate change & use less water everywhere.)​

:idea: China has excess sand & a highly exploitable, desperate population low labor costs . . . sounds like that sand problem is just a wish (dotcom) away from fixed :flipoff2:

Also, if you scoop sand out o' da o-shen, the sea level will drop & the iceberg-melting alarmists would fuck off about global warming, right? :flipoff2:
 
JR4X said:
I’ve put millions of pounds of sand into the ground fracking. It’s cheap. Cheaper than the millions and millions of gallons (bbls actually) of water I used to move it with. This is sensationalism. Mother Nature probably moves billions of tons around annually. It’s just out to see under the water. With the right weather event billions of tons will be brought back up on shore and that too will be a news worthy catastrophe.
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Sister lives in Kermit TX all day long there are sandtrucks running damn near bumper to bumper through her area. Most of the drivers only know how to put the pedal on the floor. She recently showed me what was left of a pickup that was T boned by one that ran through a stop sign at around 75 MPH! Also most of tem don't speak english and alot don't have license according to one of her son's friend who works for the state police and most of them are middle eastern
 
Isn't there like 100 countries that would sell off their sand just because it's a pain in the ass and in the way all the time?
 
Fun "facts" found on Internet:


Total land area of earth = 148,940,000 sq.km

148,940,000 X (1000/1)^2 = 1.4894*10^14

Consider the depth to 6 meters, after tat we don't encounter sand grains but mud.

1.4894*10^14 X (6) = 8.9364e10^14

Volume of a sand grain = 1mm3 X (1 meter/ 1000 mm) ^3 = 10^-9 meters

Total no of sand grains in the whole earth land area with the depth of 6 meters is

8.9364e14/10^-9 = 8.9364X10^23

Sand grains in a ton ~1.4x10^7, so 5.7x10^16 tons on earth

Total no of stars in the universe is = 2 trillion galaxies X each containing 400 billion to trillion stars = trillion trillion to 2 trillion trillion stars.. Tat’s 2X10^24

There is more stars in the universe than sand grains on earth. 2 stars for every Sand grain on earth.
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Have a quarry within 7 miles of me that produces what ever I desire in the aggregate field.


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Ah, I gotta add this:

My step-dad still works petroleum. He's up in Nebraska. They have a hell of a time setting tanks because they have to get the pit engineered and approved to meet OSHA regs. The pit itself is a bitch to dig and shore up because the soil is.... drumroll...... SAND!
 
For some of you, it’s explained in the video why dessert sand don’t work.
 
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