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- From: rlk at alum.mit.edu (Robert Krawitz)
- Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <8cb2284f-5a37-3798-c859-164e4afa7a98@gmail.com> (richard.pieri@gmail.com)
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On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 16:59:08 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > On 7/23/2017 3:42 PM, grg wrote: >> Nor do those characteristics describe millions of homes and buildings. How >> many buildings do you think are destroyed in Kansas by tornados each year? >> Hundreds, for a survival rate of 99.99%. So no, it's not because cows are >> running away from approaching tornados or because they're sharing Farmer >> John's storm cellar, it's actually because 99.99% of the spots in Kansas >> don't have a tornado land on them. > > The size of a home or even a large barn in rural Kansas is a tiny > faction of the size of a 150km^2 (say) power station. Rural homes in > Kansas are spread out dozens to hundreds of kilometers apart. So when a > tornado touches down the chances of hitting a given home is small and > the chances of it hitting several is practically nil. > > Unless it hits Topeka. > > That 150km^2 power station? That's the size of Topeka which got > clobbered by a sequence of tornadoes in 1966. If a tornado takes out one part of a solar power station, the rest is still usable. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
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