tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post2701194645300484408..comments2023-09-28T08:13:11.489-07:00Comments on Only In It For The Gold: Burnt Orange and GreenMichael Tobishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-85320576118860059892007-12-01T10:00:00.000-08:002007-12-01T10:00:00.000-08:00http://tinyurl.com/3dxgvmThat's Galveston. The roa...http://tinyurl.com/3dxgvm<BR/><BR/>That's Galveston. The road you see is called "Seawall" and it is atop the three meter wall that protects Galveston from hurricane surges. Below that you see sand periodically trucked in at considerable expense to simulate a sandy beach.<BR/><BR/>Tetrapods would not be tolerated as they would spoil the delightful aesthetics of the scene. <BR/><BR/>Note this is the first image of Galveston to come up on Google images, and it came up on a promotional travel site. <BR/><BR/>The very superficial nature of the resemblance of this scene to a natural subtropical sandy beach doesn't seem to be as striking to others as it is to me.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-51678857280534668332007-11-30T20:27:00.001-08:002007-11-30T20:27:00.001-08:00In Texas it's just roads.In Texas it's just roads.Michael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-72742018953330427432007-11-30T20:27:00.000-08:002007-11-30T20:27:00.000-08:00I forgot to mention tetrapodsI forgot to mention <A HREF="http://www.japanfocus.org/products/details/2481" REL="nofollow">tetrapods</A>James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-32462496764446429462007-11-30T20:26:00.000-08:002007-11-30T20:26:00.000-08:00It's not roads, but all sorts of construction - a ...It's not roads, but all sorts of construction - a large part of which is political pork. Buildings (of which 99% are concrete) are torn down and rebuilt on a 25year cycle, and there is a huge amount of "disaster prevention" aka concreted hillsides, river banks.James Annanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04318741813895533700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-91424970862951204752007-11-30T07:56:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:56:00.000-08:00Jules, are you sure?I have heard that the US is ab...Jules, are you sure?<BR/><BR/>I have heard that the US is about 1% pavement. The US is 26 times larger than Japan. Is a quarter of the surface area of Japan paved? <BR/><BR/>Even assuming a per capita basis, which gives you back a factor of a bit under 2.5, you'd be claiming that ten percent of the surface of Japan is paved. At least that's not inconsistent with Wikipedia but I still am having some trouble believing it.<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_JapanMichael Tobishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08229460438349093944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-45088593070352699992007-11-30T07:21:00.000-08:002007-11-30T07:21:00.000-08:00Concrete:http://tinyurl.com/28n5lqConcrete:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/28n5lqskankyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14584908320777937193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8524070301101240472.post-83576131377420879132007-11-29T04:53:00.000-08:002007-11-29T04:53:00.000-08:00Japan is just the same, except in each little tria...Japan is just the same, except in each little triangles of dust in between the roads, we have a city.<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2gwpga<BR/><BR/>Should we really be measuring how we rape the planet only in terms of CO2 output?<BR/><BR/>We make about half the CO2 per person but, with a much smaller population we use about the same amount of concrete as the USA!juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591920483149775255noreply@blogger.com