Stink Radius Infographic

My brother Jered is a nurse in the Air Force and currently stationed at Balad Air Base in Iraq. Today he posted on his Facebook wall that:

“It’s 120F. The stink radius of the porta-potties is 150yards.
There’s a porta-potty every 140yards = nowhere is safe.”

I quickly replied with the image below and this note: “Your logic here isn’t entirely accurate. To illustrate, I’ve created the following infographic.”

…and then I realized I made a major geometry fail (radius, not diameter!) and posted the following correction:

Stink Radius Infographic

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Publish Date: 05/14/2010 at 11:05am
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