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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #105 on: March 13, 2011, 08:01:52 PM »
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #106 on: March 13, 2011, 09:05:22 PM »
Quote from: orcus116 on March 13, 2011, 03:37:15 PM
My friend and I had a conversation a few nights ago about alternate energies and such. As an architect he's always trying to find ways to build self sustaining houses and while we both agree that that is definitely the way to go at the moment all these alternative forms of energy are kind of a pipe dream considering how inefficient they are. Sure you could have an all solar energy house out in Arizona that is 100% self sufficient but up in the Northeast you'd need to design a house that uses solar, wind and water energy and that's just not feasible at the moment. The nuclear power plant near me provides more than enough energy for a large chunk of lower New York and only releases steam as its byproduct.

exactly. the people saying "oh well, they shouldn't have nuclear power" are the same people that said "nuclear power won't work in the first place."
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #107 on: March 13, 2011, 10:15:20 PM »
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Saw that when Ian linked to it on Facebook. Just ridiculous.
Yeah. Pretty sure we more than evened the score with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Funny how everyone seemed to forget about those.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #108 on: March 13, 2011, 10:17:30 PM »
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Quote from: ariich on March 13, 2011, 03:03:25 PM
Quote from: Fluffy Lothario on March 13, 2011, 02:38:21 PM
If anyone wants to fucking rage, it's only one click away:

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Saw that when Ian linked to it on Facebook. Just ridiculous.
Yeah. Pretty sure we more than evened the score with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Funny how everyone seemed to forget about those.
What scares me is that it seemed to me that about half of those facebook updates were actually serious.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #109 on: March 13, 2011, 11:12:34 PM »
To be fair, the plants had no issues with the Earthquake itself.  All reactors SCRAMmed exactly as they were supposed to at the first sign of instability.  The tsunami damaged the backup generators for the cooling pumps.  This despite their being 2 to 3 times higher than the worst recorded flood to date.  Sadly,  it was just one of those failures of imagination that will from time to time pop up and kick you in the nuts. 

This whole thing is pretty intriguing to me.  There really isn't any place on Earth better suited to dealing with Earthquakes and tsunamis.  These guys were very well prepared and they're putting up a helluva fight in the aftermath.  If this had happened in any other nation it would have been far more catastrophic.  Strangely, it makes it harder to fully appreciate what these guys are doing.  If 12 guys in Kazakhstan managed to keep a nuclear reactor from going supernova after two days with no cooling,  we'd already be writing songs about them.  Since it's Japan, who's kind of mastered this whole thing,  I've just kind of figured that they'd take care of it. 
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #110 on: March 13, 2011, 11:31:58 PM »
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #111 on: March 14, 2011, 11:14:45 AM »
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #112 on: March 14, 2011, 11:52:25 AM »
I'm very impressed with the way the Japanese people have been handling this crisis.  They wait in long lines for hours for food and water and it's very calm and organized.

If something like this happened in the U.S., idiots would be looting the shit out of everything, everywhere and the gov't would have to initiate martial law.

My hat's off to the Japanese.  :tup
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #114 on: March 14, 2011, 01:00:39 PM »
Holy crap.


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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #115 on: March 14, 2011, 01:25:40 PM »
I'm just really disturbed about the possibility of a meltdown. I was in the epicenter of the earthquake in turkey and we had rumors of a chemical plant exploding and the chemicals being airborne. At that point, I can't even explain the fear in your brain. The fact that you can't outrun the wind and know in your mind that you are dead is the scariest thing ever. Just a sheer lack of options.
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« Reply #116 on: March 14, 2011, 02:21:12 PM »
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I'm very impressed with the way the Japanese people have been handling this crisis.  They wait in long lines for hours for food and water and it's very calm and organized.

Having been there couple of times, thats Japan for you. They don't take #/¤&( from nobody.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #117 on: March 14, 2011, 03:06:00 PM »
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #118 on: March 14, 2011, 03:31:59 PM »
So I just read how 50 Cent and Gilbert Gottfried are under fire for comments they made on their twitter about Japan.

Gottfried was fired as voice actor for the Aflac duck.  

You stay classy 50 and "Gottfired" :tdwn




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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #119 on: March 14, 2011, 04:39:14 PM »
 :facepalm: at some people.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #120 on: March 14, 2011, 04:54:39 PM »
Now they're pumping radioactive water into the ocean.



Prepare for Godzilla.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #121 on: March 14, 2011, 05:10:35 PM »
Quote from: bertoltus on March 14, 2011, 04:54:39 PM
Now they're pumping radioactive water into the ocean.



Prepare for Godzilla.

That won't be an issue. The ocean is so vast, it will all dilute in no time.
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #122 on: April 07, 2011, 10:11:13 AM »
7+ aftershock...in Japan.....another Tsunami possible.
UK Sun reporting


and a quake just Mexico half an hour ago.
holy crap!
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #123 on: April 07, 2011, 12:05:11 PM »
My FB status of my buddy who lives there...

"Wow that aftershock was the worst since the day of the original quake. Hope everyone is ok."

one of his comments...

" we have had more than 500 earthquakes since the original. Many were above magnitude 5. A bunch were above magnitude 6. The reading for the one that just happened is 7.4 right now but they will update it officially later. The afterschocks have gotten progressively smaller over the last few weeks... but this was the worst one I can remember since the first day it started.."
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Re: Huge Earthquake in Japan.
« Reply #124 on: April 07, 2011, 12:33:19 PM »
Tsunami warning lifted almost immediately.
But
It was still a good shake.
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