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Airpocalypse : Beijing
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I wonder how it ranks compared to Mexico City.
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The thread title made me think there was another plane crash.
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Mankind's only chance is to harness the power of stupid.
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Originally Posted by subego
The thread title made me think there was another plane crash.
Sorry.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
I wonder how it ranks compared to Mexico City.
GIS of 'mexico city pollution' and 'beijing pollution' is interesting. And scary.
Tokyo seems to be up there as well.
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Pollution in Beijing is so bad it 'snows' big puffy flakes of the crap at night/early morning. It is horrible, spent a month there - it ruined a good camera from dust particles, and I was coughing brown tar for weeks.
Tokyo is like a mountain forest in spring compared to any Chinese city, except for the pungent sewer when it's 94F and 99 % humidity. Odd that it's even mentioned.
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Originally Posted by mattyb
Sorry.
No apologies needed whatsoever. That was meant do demonstrate my twisted thought process, not to take you to task.
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Went to Hong Kong recently, it was nearly as bad there. Seeing what you're breathing really sucks. More and more I think about retiring to NZ.
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Originally Posted by Shaddim
More and more I think about retiring to NZ.
Place is overrun with Orcs, though.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Place is overrun with Orcs, though.
I'm a deadly shot with a set of conkers.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Place is overrun with Orcs, though.
Don't forget that Godzilla is in that neighbourhood as well.
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And heh - The Great Eagles are there too, although they were too busy to carry a little hobbit and his stupid ring to a volcano which would've saved him years plus hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives for the effort.
Just saying don't count on them.
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It's been a 10 out of 10 on the pollution index in London this week though so it's not all a Far East problem. Saharan dust combined with vehicular pollution. Not sure what 10/10 means in actuality though. 100% pollution? Shouldn't we all be dead? Anyway was fairly unpleasant.
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Originally Posted by Doc HM
It's been a 10 out of 10 on the pollution index in London this week though so it's not all a Far East problem. Saharan dust combined with vehicular pollution. Not sure what 10/10 means in actuality though. 100% pollution? Shouldn't we all be dead? Anyway was fairly unpleasant.
Well, compared to your UK scale, Beijing was probably Eleventy Billion out of 10.
-t
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