Can’t imagine the wait times for elevators at whatever the start/end of normal working hours must be.
Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?
I’d assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.
I think they have collection centres (within the building), chutes were more of an American thing (“don’t think about the trash” mentality).
Nah, they were where I live. Now they are closed due to sanitary concerns or something. In old, post soviet building I lived they removed chutes and turned bottom level (where the big trash containers were) into expanded lift, so disabled people could ride all the way to ground level.
Definitely not just an American thing.
Could be it’s own city.
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That’s way more than the population of the whole town I live in.
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Peach Trees.
Does it have schools and shops too?
Now imagine a fire breaking out 😬
that’s why fire suppression systems exist
Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.
I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.
Probably a whole mall on the lower floors and vending machines amd shid
Right? I’m mass texting my deliveries “hey I’m out front with about 12 other orders. If you need it delivered to your door here it’ll be a few extra minutes. I’ll head into the building to complete any remaining deliveries at [time]”
Actually occupancy is likely somewhere between 10-20k
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
Guaranteed it’s the KFC delivery man who’s going to have a problem.
Do they have pizza delivery in China?
On the one hand something like 80% of China’s population is lactose intolerant, but on the other that certainly never stopped any lactose intolerant people I know
High precision cannon modified to launch pizza boxes … then just park it about half a kilometer in front of the building.
- Launch a ball of dough against a designated target at the correct speed for it to flatten out on impact
- Borrow modern artillery targeting systems so that a ball of toppings impacts the same spot a moment afterwards
- Fire a HESH round to cook it
Tactical ballistic pizza? Count me in. Sounds reckless and delicious.
Like the guy that cooked a chicken by slapping it repeatedly, somebody needs to see what speeds firing a ball of dough against a wall will get it crispy brown.
How did I end up on NCD again?
Communications personnel receive order … they quickly process it to the gun crew
Gun crew load first round: … 15TH FLOOR!!! APARTMENT 1567!!! KITCHEN WINDOW SECOND TO RIGHT!!! … FIRE!!!
Gun recoils … crew prepare second round: … SAUCE!!! … PEPPERONI!!! HAM!!! PEPPERS!!! ANCHOVIES!!! … CHEESE!!! EXTRA CHEESE!!! … (prepared round is loaded into gun) … FIRE!!!
Gun recoils … crew load HESH round: … COMPLETE THE ORDER!!! … FIRE!!!
Gun crew grows silent for a moment … there is a distant explosion of an apartment completely blow out on the 15th floor.
Sure, they blew a hole in the building, but the pizza was perfectly cooked, so mission accomplished.
My first thought was this
Unfortunately this is not currently working (apparently QC itself is currently down, according to Cloudflare), but wow, I haven’t thought about QC in quite some time. Thanks for the memories!
Yeah, the connection is intermittent right now. He’s taking December off this year.
One could easily find oneself envious.
It was the pizza from space storyline that I linked.
Makes sense, thanks for elaborating!
If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have doubts about both figures…
I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there
I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.
That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.
Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn’t come up with a solid number.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/
25K then?
I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.
Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.
Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?
Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.
- P1: 37 floors
- P2: square building
- C1: 37 apartments per floor
duh
This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.
It doesn’t look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.
someone posted the listing here, the units are 80m^2, which is 861sq ft, that is nowhere close casket size
This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,
They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”
30 thousand people used to live here.
Now it’s a ghost town.
I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.
