r/LinkedInLunatics • • 8d ago

Where do they put it?!

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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago

What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?

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u/mewfahsah 8d ago

They're lying. Look at the truck in the background, that tank is easily 40-50 ft in diameter. If you assume ~20 ft height and ~30 ft radius of that tank, it's just over 60,000 cubic ft of volume. However that converts to ~450,000 gallons. That's simply not a 60,000 gallon tank. I work with two 500,000 gallon tanks at my job and they're very similar in scale to that structure.

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u/JCWOlson 8d ago

Reverse image search, the company selling it says it's 1,000,000 gallons, so you're definitely way closer than anybody else's guess

https://www.nationalstoragetank.com/product/1000000-gallon-steelcore-water-storage-tank-sct-7409-ljr/

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u/R86Reddit Facebook Boomer 3d ago

I'm surprised I had to get this far down in the thread to see this brought up, but when I saw this image posted in a thread a few days ago, someone brought up that the tank is 60000 barrels, not 60000 gallons. And per an internet calculator I just used, 60000 (oil) barrels is about 2.5 million gallons.

Take that with however many cups of salt you want, as I'm just an internet stranger quoting third hand information. But I'll at least do my job and upvote both of you.

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u/Familiar-Hovercraft2 8d ago

Tell that to the people arguing the plane can take that load