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I hope they just dump on those stupid reactors. :banghead:

Itazura ichiban wrote:I hope they just dump on those stupid reactors. :banghead:

Thing is, where are they going to get power from without them? :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
It's all about connections, son. :rofl:

That girl learned an important Chinese vocabulary word -- "guanxi" :P

I discussed the radioactivity with a big brain from the CNRS and from what I understood, it's pointless to compare the radioactivity from the nuclear industry with natural radioactivity. The radioactivity from a banana won't affect your health in any way. The radioactivity from the plutonium, or uranium can affect your health even in small quantity because it comes from microscopic particles of metal that you will breath or get in contact with.

Was watching evening news and saw vegetables from Ibaraki being sold on the cheap. A head of lettuce normally priced at 500 yen was at 50 yen. Bundle of spinach was at 2 yen. 2 yen! It's sad that these farmers are being affected from the recent radiation hype on veggies and water. Oh and gas per liter shot up 150 yen. My friend who came up from Hiroshima today could sense the tension of people in Tokyo.

On a positive note, I wasn't subject to power outage today. :beaten:

20 century boy wrote:I discussed the radioactivity with a big brain from the CNRS and from what I understood, it's pointless to compare the radioactivity from the nuclear industry with natural radioactivity. The radioactivity from a banana won't affect your health in any way. The radioactivity from the plutonium, or uranium can affect your health even in small quantity because it comes from microscopic particles of metal that you will breath or get in contact with.

But those particles rarely drift far from the reactor, huh?

Seems like the radioactive stuff they're detecting in food and water are isotopes from Cesium and Iodine.

BMW, well I guess you're mostly right but the black smoke out of the plant was probably not water. :)

I wish the japanese people learn from the incident and vote massively in the right direction but I suppose they won't, just like everybody else. We should all learn from that catastrophe and get our destiny in our hands.

20 century boy wrote:I wish the japanese people learn from the incident and vote massively in the right direction but I suppose they won't, just like everybody else. We should all learn from that catastrophe and get our destiny in our hands.

Thing is, what alternatives to the Japanese have? Wind power? Solar?

Those sources require large areas of space to be viable... Can you imagine Japan's beautiful landscape removed and dotted with wind turbines or solar panels? :sweat:

Tough situation for them... Nuclear power is the most efficient from a land usage standpoint, I think.

bmwracer wrote:
Those sources require large areas of space to be viable... Can you imagine Japan's beautiful landscape removed and dotted with wind turbines or solar panels? :sweat:

Tough situation for them... Nuclear power is the most efficient from a land usage standpoint, I think.

Agreed. Japan doesn't have the land to accommodate such alternative energy sources like wind/solar.

It's unfortunate that the lamestream media like CNN or Fox is sensationalizing the radiation levels like a bunch of hype beasts. It overshadows the rescue/recovery efforts. I personally don't think this is at the level of Chernobyl.

Another amazing tsunami video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9GEaWAmJg&feature=aso

Takoyama wrote:It's unfortunate that the lamestream media like CNN or Fox is sensationalizing the radiation levels like a bunch of hype beasts. It overshadows the rescue/recovery efforts. I personally don't think this is at the level of Chernobyl.

You said it.

Most of the media is fanning the paranoia flames, I think... I've even criticized HuffPo at their site for their tabloid-ish coverage of the crisis in Japan. :shakehead:

Takoyama wrote:Another amazing tsunami video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct9GEaWAmJg&feature=aso

Dayem.

The inrush of water is so deceiving... Next thing you know, everything is submerged. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
Dayem.

The inrush of water is so deceiving... Next thing you know, everything is submerged. :sweat:

Yeah, I'm sure at one point the guy was thinking "Oh shit! Perhaps my vantage point may not be high enough."

Takoyama wrote:Yeah, I'm sure at one point the guy was thinking "Oh shit! Perhaps my vantage point may not be high enough."

LOL, yeah... On two occasions, he seemed to make a dash for the stairs, the second time for good.

bmwracer wrote:
You said it.

Most of the media is fanning the paranoia flames, I think... I've even criticized HuffPo at their site for their tabloid-ish coverage of the crisis in Japan. :shakehead:

American media = FAIL

Tu_triky wrote:American media = FAIL

EPIC.

bmwracer wrote:
EPIC.

I stopped watching news coverage on the disaster several days ago. I'll stick to the interwebs where you are not incessantly subjected to the same disaster porn clips accompanied with inaccurate reporting and sensationalized tales of fantasy.

Tu_triky wrote:
I'll stick to the interwebs where you are not incessantly subjected to the same disaster porn clips accompanied with inaccurate reporting and sensationalized tales of fantasy.

Just in: NHK News hired Hara Saori to provide epic fantasy winning coverage at Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant.

Tu_triky wrote:I stopped watching news coverage on the disaster several days ago. I'll stick to the interwebs where you are not incessantly subjected to the same disaster porn clips accompanied with inaccurate reporting and sensationalized tales of fantasy.

:victory:

Same here... I've been watching just the NHK broadcasts, but they get tiring 'cause the translators' voices drone after a while. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
:victory:

Same here... I've been watching just the NHK broadcasts, but they get tiring 'cause the translators' voices drone after a while. :sweat:

They don't have the colorful translators that they used to translate Iron Chef back in the day?

"Fuku-san!"