Wow not only are you a d-bag, you are an idiot and a troll as well. LOL!   See 56 other replies

People were only asleep for TWO minutes. Evacuations could have occurred after that time, so could emergency response, and everything else that makes disasters kill far fewer people than they should.   See 56 other replies

why do you keep using bespeaks when you could just say speaks   See 56 other replies

What about the pregnant woman?   See 2 other replies

Just show you non-fuzzy math work:
I read an estimate that 1 billion people visit US beaches per year. Now ignoring that October is an off-season time and far fewer people would be there than at the peak. And just ignore what you can see by looking at any picture of a beach - that only some of the visitors are in the water at any given time (As well as the fact that the visitors come at different times of the day. They aren't there all at once - much less crowding the beaches of Malibu at 11 AM on a weekday) and just divide that figure by 365. you get 2,739,726 at all US beaches on a given day. That is only 9/10 of a percent of the population of the US. And as I have stated these are wildly inflated estimates compared two the reality of who would be affected.
Yes, Yes I know what about people in pools and baths? Well People usually take showers to get ready for work or school. Most people don't have the time to draw a bath. And bath or pool virtually no one is going to be doing that between 11AM (Pacific) and 1PM(Eastern). Let me be clear: that is not to say _no one_ in fact I can imagine that would be the case for more than one person. But this is not about imagining, it is about reasoning what is likely to be a significant statistical outcome.   See 56 other replies

Yeah but the towers didn't fall in 2 minutes. The death toll would not have been very different if everyone fell asleep for 2 minutes. Yes it would be higher but not orders of magnitude higher.Also trying to minimize the density of New versus some Asian city doesn't wash. Yes it is less dense but only a bit less than a very few population centers. It is one of the worlds most densely populated cities.
You don't seem to have any sense of proportion. Its density doesn't matter as much as the environment. If the entire population of the city is laid out in an open field and a plane aimed at them it probably would wipe them all out. But there is a lot of stuff that would mitigate. Yeah a building would catch fire but that fire is limited to a certain area and 2 minutes is not enough to suffocate or burn everyone in a high rise building hit by an airplane - not by a long shot. And bottom line -a serious attempt to come to good estimate for this academic diversion is not a function of imagination it is a function of rational debate and real research. In fact I think it is obvious your imagination has completely run amok. There are actuaries to do estimates about these kind of scenarios all the time. For insurance companies, municipal, state, and federal disaster response agencies, academic research aimed at understanding the effects of past natural disasters. From what I recall of their estimates of various scenarios, in general, it just plain contradicts what you are saying.   See 56 other replies