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Kepler said:
Only 7 dead? That's unbelievable for that size explosion. Maybe it was in a mostly automated area?
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Those are probably just the people that made it to a hospital to die later. The real death toll may never be known. That thing probably vaporized everyone within a few hundred feet. Incinerated everything within a thousand. And killed via internal injuries most everyone within a few thousand. I'm guessing the toll right now is around 2,000-15,000 based on how populated that area is. There are huge apartment buildings basically right across the street.
 
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Kepler said:
A disaster is a disaster. It could happen in North Korea or Mississippi and I still wouldn't be happy about it.
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Yeah but the people that died who have little to no influence over their government are our enemy!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Those are probably just the people that made it to a hospital to die later. The real death toll may never be known. That thing probably vaporized everyone within a few hundred feet. Incinerated everything within a thousand. And killed via internal injuries most everyone within a few thousand. I'm guessing the toll right now is around 2,000-15,000 based on how populated that area is. There are huge apartment buildings basically right across the street.
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I was hoping it was in one of those industrial zones that are basically hundreds of square miles of warehouses with robotic delivery systems from rail spurs to docks. I remember seeing a map of one of them (IIRC the busiest port in the world) that was about the size of Brooklyn.
 
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Volkswagen is in serious trouble. I can't imagine how the EPA is going to pimpslap them. They're like the NE Patriots of Car Makers, unfortunately for them the EPA won't be as soft as Goodell.
 
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bigblue_dl said:
Volkswagen is in serious trouble. I can't imagine how the EPA is going to pimpslap them. They're like the NE Patriots of Car Makers, unfortunately for them the EPA won't be as soft as Goodell.
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And the EPA actually a leg to stand on without fabricating or twisting its reasoning all around in order to decide upon its punishment of VW. The People's Car is going to be swimming in a river of the people's sh**.
 
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And the EPA actually a leg to stand on without fabricating or twisting its reasoning all around in order to decide upon its punishment of VW. The People's Car is going to be swimming in a river of the people's sh**.
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The Pope arrives today in DC with lots of road closures and a disfunctuonal subway system that can't handle a normal rush hour without cars breaking down. Now they're going to squeeze thousands of people on one subway line out of one of the smallest stations in the system.

It's going to take a miracle.
 
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joecct said:
The Pope arrives today in DC with lots of road closures and a disfunctuonal subway system that can't handle a normal rush hour without cars breaking down. Now they're going to squeeze thousands of people on one subway line out of one of the smallest stations in the system.

It's going to take a miracle.
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What does the Pope's visit have to do with the VW situation?
 
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