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Old 12-04-2007, 01:08 PM   #1
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December 4, 2007: Pollution at Beijing Olympics site



20minutos.es images of the day had this one... a shot at the site of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Think they're ready?
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Old 12-04-2007, 01:58 PM   #2
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Boy, I hope thats a pre-dawn image.....
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Old 12-04-2007, 10:19 PM   #3
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Yechhhh.
Beijing's pollution is a mix of industrial/transport smog and desert sand/dust. They're planning to pretty much shut down most of the industry in the lead up to the games and let things clear for a while. They did this for the Asian Games in Shanghai a few years back and it worked pretty well.
But then it will be back to normal. Chinese pollution reaches Japan and sometimes crosses the Pacific and approaches Alaska. Yechhh.
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Old 12-05-2007, 01:48 AM   #4
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The good news: Blind man's buff is a new Olympic discipline. - Bad news: No mixed teams.
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Old 12-05-2007, 02:33 AM   #5
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about 40:1, men to dozers...over-populluted?
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Old 12-05-2007, 06:53 AM   #6
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Anyone look close at the cob-job they've built? looks like a job for the 3 stooges.
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Old 12-05-2007, 04:39 PM   #7
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I remember Hong Kong being like that as well at certain times as the weather changed, but never quite that bad.
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Old 12-05-2007, 05:26 PM   #8
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From this (somewhat) brighter image, I would say these are guys are gov't workers. Almost everybody is doing NOTHING. Hands in pockets, sitting down. Sheesh, reminds me of highway workers here.

Also, there is something about this pic. Might've been 'shopped to accentuate the overall gloominess?
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Old 12-05-2007, 06:01 PM   #9
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Not 'shopped. A friend brought home some pics from a vacation, where the visibility was even worse.
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Old 12-06-2007, 12:06 AM   #10
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Cyclefrance posted some a while back, also.
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Old 12-06-2007, 06:05 PM   #11
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I'm worried for the athletes. They're supposed to be in peak condition, breathing this?? Some of them are asthmatic too.
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Old 12-06-2007, 06:11 PM   #12
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Old 12-06-2007, 09:07 PM   #13
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I'm worried for the athletes. They're supposed to be in peak condition, breathing this?? Some of them are asthmatic too.
I am thinking that those so industrious Chinese people who are so hard working and not lazy will figure out a way to snatch each and every little one of those coal particles from the air with chopsticks before the next Olympics, there-by continuing to scam the world that they are doing their part for global warming... heh.
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Old 12-06-2007, 09:42 PM   #14
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I read recently that the planning for the games allows for some events such as the marathon to be postponed or even canceled if the air pollution is too bad that day.
Imagine what that would do to an athlete's carefully planned event preparation. Oh, sorry, not today - maybe tomorrow...
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Old 12-07-2007, 07:51 AM   #15
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Check out the foreman in the red hard-hat. Observing, as usual. What ever happened to leading by doing?
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