OT: LA Smog? That isn't smog. Now THIS is smog

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Uncle Wig wrote:
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I wonder exactly what the pollution contains ?

Coal.
maybe they need our "clean coal"

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/...as/4339171

[kj4btkljv]

Stuff is gonna jump out and grab 'em.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/

Jeff

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Acer wrote:
Looks like Pittsburgh before those meddling environmentalists showed up.

True dat.

I was bicycle commuting from campus to my job about a mile away in the summer of '78. When I got to my office, I lay down on the floor gasping for breath.

Back then the evening weather report would include the PPM count for various neighborhoods. It was over 350 that day.

[NewtonMP2100]

sorry, thought you said SNOG.....

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Acer wrote:
Looks like Pittsburgh before those meddling environmentalists showed up.

Actually it was the stupid businesspeople that killed the steel business there.

I worked for a company that made military grade telescopes in Pittsburgh. The air (in the mid 1980's) was VERY clear. We were able to see into windows about 10 miles away across the Allegheny river. Visible, low light, and IR. IR was fun.. you could tell who was 'interested' based on bloodflow. We used the technology to verify which couple was having 'nooners' and thinking nobody knew about it. IR blooms on key points on the guy and the gal.

(All in the interests of proving the technology. We never told anyone official about it.)

[ztirffritz]

There used to be pollution monitoring devices stationed all over Pittsburgh. My father was a maintenance manager for the Shenango Coke and Steel on Neville Island. Part of his job was to monitor and change out the log sheets on the monitoring equipment around the city. He quit that job just as the steel industry was imploding in Pittsburgh. He can still see lots of the equipment mounted on top of buildings around town, and he strongly suspects that no one has touched any of it since his last day of work...25-30 years ago. Sounds like that might be changing though...

http://triblive.com/business/2410473-74/...z2HyU0zA41

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