New crisis: shortage of sand

[jamel]

Looks out across the El Paso landscape.....
Yeah im calling bullshit.

Yall need some sane come get this shit out my fucking yard.

 

[Fluffernutter]

Found some

Apparently this place has 3.5 million square miles of it.

Yet, the sand in Saudi Arabia is so fine that you can't do anything with it. They can't even make concrete with the local sand in Saudi Arabia.

 

[nhbbear]

If only our government knew where the Middle East was

 

[Metusalemi]

I blame this guy.

 

[Bald1]

We're running out of a lot of weird things that don't make sense on the surface.

But the 2nd most abundant substance on the planet? Yeah, I don't buy it.

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

Interesting. Desert sand is too smooth for construction. I did not know that.

Desert sand is too smooth everyone. That's the story. Coarse sand is needed.

Well that answers my question as well. Interesting.

 

[Rav1nHunter]

Australia sells sand to countries in the middle east if that's not some ice to the eskimos shit I don't know what is.

 

[JosephDredd]

But the 2nd most abundant substance on the planet? Yeah, I don't buy it.

Humankind is having that big of impact on the planet. I buy it, especially when you consider that sand comes in different qualities and land is one thing they're not making more of.

 

[PorkPiePusher]

At least we're not running out of zinc.