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HUGE earthquake and tsunami hit Japan...

Started by ungeheuer, March 11, 2011, 01:59:00 AM

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Stinky Wizzleteats

#45
March 11, 2011, 06:04:51 PM
Quote from: Monster Dave on March 11, 2011, 07:28:43 AM
Anyone from Sydney on here? I've got a buddy who lives there and haven't been able to get in touch with him. How are things down under?



:o


Everything is fine down here.   ;)

Can't describe the way I'm feeling right now. Mother nature is a cruel pregnant dog.
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#46
March 11, 2011, 08:32:32 PM
So CA did get a bit of it afterall. I see some people in OR didn't pay attention to the warnings either and got swept out in the ocean. It was their lucky day though. 

Nakid is over in Yokosuka naval base. I interviewed with them last summer. They weren't affected but they will be helping ouy a lot with the rescue efforts.  Dana..think that's his name..is up at Yakota AFB. Just west of Tokyo. All military personel accounted for. What number is being reported now for the victims? 
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#47
March 11, 2011, 10:01:36 PM
Quote from: IZ on March 11, 2011, 08:32:32 PM
What number is being reported now for the victims? 
According to Japanese news update an hour ago, at least 398 dead and 805 missing.
:'(
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ungeheuer

#48
March 12, 2011, 02:48:49 AM Last Edit: March 12, 2011, 03:17:58 AM by ungeheuer
Quote from: IZ on March 11, 2011, 04:41:29 AM3-4 Nuc plants affected but all shut down.  2000 people being evacuated.  Supposedly, no radiation leak but what if it didn't shut down?  Another Chernobyl..just on a larger scale??
Quote from: Monster Dave on March 11, 2011, 12:46:44 PMWhat's really worrisome now is that they (Japan) are trouble cooling the Fukushima nuclear reactor (160 miles north of Tokyo) because emergency coolant transfer systems are offline. There's talk of releasing some radiative steam to relieve pressure at the reactor, and have thus started a "precautionary" evacuation of the area immediately around the plant.This brings to mind the reactor disaster at Three Mile Island back in '79. Scary stuff!!  
Shit.  It seems you were both correct to air such concerns...
:(

Quote from: ungeheuer on March 11, 2011, 04:54:17 AM
1) Japan's expertise in earthquake/tsunami mitigation is second to none.
2) Japan's nuclear facilities are constructed and managed with reference to 1).  
And I was overly optimistic.
:(

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Explosion
:(

Shit. Shit. Shit.
:(
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#49
March 12, 2011, 04:26:47 AM
Quote from: ungeheuer on March 12, 2011, 02:48:49 AM

Shit. Shit. Shit.
:(

+1

This could be bad for everybody.....  :-\
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#50
March 12, 2011, 04:52:03 AM
Isn't this how AKIRA started?
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#51
March 12, 2011, 04:56:53 AM
On July 16, 1988, Tokyo  is destroyed by an apparent nuclear explosion, leading to the start of World War III.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_%28film%29

Haven't seen that in years.
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#52
March 12, 2011, 05:17:42 AM
Good news?

Edano said the radiation around the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had not risen after the blast, but had in fact decreased. He did not say why that was so. The pressure in the reactor was also decreasing after the blast, he said.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20110312/as-japan-earthquake/
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#53
March 12, 2011, 05:20:56 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 12, 2011, 05:17:42 AMGood news?
Well, its certainly less worse news.
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#54
March 12, 2011, 05:22:20 AM
I guess we'll find out.
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lethe

#55
March 12, 2011, 05:23:30 AM
Hopefully not a precursor to somehow worse news.  :-\
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ungeheuer

#56
March 12, 2011, 05:29:54 AM
Latest reports do indeed seem to be just slightly less worrisome..... 

"It appears the outer structure of the building that houses the reactor blew off in the explosion, but Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Yukio Edano, says the reactor's inner container sustained no damage"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/12/3162554.htm
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#57
March 12, 2011, 05:31:28 AM
That was reported in the Huff Post article also.
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ungeheuer

#58
March 12, 2011, 05:34:06 AM
Quote from: ducpainter on March 12, 2011, 05:31:28 AM
That was reported in the Huff Post article also.
Good, if the journalists all say it often enough it just could be true.
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#59
March 12, 2011, 05:35:31 AM
Quote from: ungeheuer on March 12, 2011, 05:34:06 AM
Good, if the journalists all say it often enough it just could be true.
Well, the problem with that is it's similar to weather reports...

all the info comes from the same propaganda source.
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 a completely different way than you, you will be open to understand how that
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    is even more amazing than yours."
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    Ask a mother who gave birth to a stillborn.
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