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▲ moffkalast 16 hours ago

I don't think BASF really counts, it's more of a factorio district and not one single insanely large building.

▲Archelaos 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I was refering to the size of the factory premises = land + buildings.

It seems we need diffrent categories for a ranking: premises vs. base area of the buildings vs. floor area of the buildings vs. largest building per base area vs. largest building per floor area, etc. And then we would need to clarify what counts in each case ...

Anyway, I live about 20 km from BASF and it is quite an impressive sight, especially at night. Here is a photo: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Fackelschein_des_Steam... However, the red lights are probably an artefact of the camera; typically the lights looks rather bluesh in reality. And the photo was shot with a 400 mm lens: the television tower in the foreground is more than 4 km away from the factory, the house at the left about 3 km.

▲ahartmetz 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've studied in the area and, as a bit of a night person, often drove past at night when driving to or from parents. A very cool sight, though the smell is often less pleasant :D - presumably nothing toxic, that would be illegal, but it does smell bad. Kind of like burning plastic, but without the harshest components of that smell.

Anyway, cool that Germany still has the biggest of something ~heavy industry.

▲0_____0 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I hope you appreciate how nice it is that you can reasonably assume that whatever you're smelling isn't particularly toxic.

▲throwaway2037 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would be curious to know what chemical compounds that you are smelling. Germany has incredibly strict environmental protection laws. As an aside, the waterfront of Kawasaki, Japan is pretty similar, but not one single company. It looks straight from Factorio.

▲robwwilliams 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like an image ripped from Blade Runner.

▲shiroiushi 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Nah, Blade Runner looks better.