I understand the need to put a nuclear reactor near a water source, but geez, does it have to be that close to a fault line?

Japan nuclear plant  has explosion / radiation detected




http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/24500403

Last edited by don.rob11 (3/12/2011 5:10 pm)

don.rob11 wrote:

Japan nuclear plant  has explosion / radiation detected




http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/24500403

Off topic but why are there so many videos on the internet.  I hate it.  If I wanted to watch the news I would turn on the TV.  I can read 3 stories by the time it would take that video to load.  If it is a video it better be naked or funny.

don.rob11 wrote:

I guess another alternative would be , just ignore them .

that would work but it seems everytime a headline catches my eye it leads to a video.  I find that annoying.

The remedy for this type of annoyance, I am guessing, is to have a much faster internet connection.  I read that the government of South Korea is going to connect each and every home to a 1 GB/sec internet service.

were you around on this board when the earthquake and tsunami hit Indonesia back in december 2004, alz?  old timers among us will recall that i was living in jakarta back then and i recall the body count going up dramatically as they reached more remote areas and found more devastated, and empty, villages. i don't think this will get anywhere near 240,000, but i would be surprised if it doesn't go up quite a bit still.

I was probably very casual to the cards boards then, mostly I was a dolphin fan postin in the only active AFC forum yahoo had (Patriots board).

I guess back in 1960 they had one in Chile that hit 9.5 as the most devastating recorded earthquake ever. That's nearly impossible to imagine.

don.rob11 wrote:

I apologize for annoying you .

That wasnt my point but apology accepted   (happy)

alz wrote:

Watching some of the footage from Japan, yacht's and other fishing vessels (the COMMERCIAL kind that are about 200 feet long) getting tossed around like some toys.

I'm going to be shocked if the final death toll on this isn't over 15K. Way too much coastal population for it to be less.

I think the medium-sized ship on top of the 2-story building is a powerful testimonial as to the destruction

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/video-of-terrifying-destruction-in-japan-hits-the-web;_ylt=A0LEaohvfH5N5jgBpSqs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTU3aWY2cGF2BGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3RoZWxvb2tvdXQvMjAxMTAzMTQvdmlkZW8tb2YtdGVycmlmeWluZy1kZXN0cnVjdGlvbi1pbi1qYXBhbi1oaXRzLXRoZS13ZWIEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM0BHBvcwMxBHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDdmlkZW9vZnRlcnJp

Last edited by Max (3/14/2011 5:40 pm)

Max wrote:

APRTW wrote:

Is it worng that I have a hard time getting to worked up over this earthquake?  It isnt that I dont feel bad for the people and families that are effected.  It is just hard to feel sorry for everyone else when nobody cares what happens over here.

Well, I think that depends upon whom you think we should be sorry for here?  But I assume you are talking politics, AP. 

America seems to be divided into three groups: about 30% are die hard progressives like myself, who feel an American-style social democracy of the 1970s and 1990s is ideal, with the added touches of universal health care and ever increasing emancipation of repressed fringe demographic groups, like gays, Muslims, or whomever.  Another 30% are die hard conservatives who viscerally hate the vision of America that I cherish (and I, of course, viscerally hate their vision of America).  In between are about 40% who are the swing voters.  When things heat up around election time, the swing voters jump one way or the other, and the group shrinks down to maybe 10-20% in the run-up to election day.  In the battle for those swing voters, both sides start to make ugly deals with the devil that step all over their core ideology.   In this environment, it is very, very hard to accomplish much of anything, and people get so frustrated they begin to give up on the whole process.

Yeah, the selfish side of me thinks about how another world event is going to pull the focus off of what is wrong in our own country.  How these troubles is going to suck US aid and our tax dollars to another country out there.  Then you have the media side of things that is going to beat this thing into our heads for the next 2 years.  I feel bad for the people of course.  You would have to be unhuman not to.  I cant put words together that would reflect what Japan is going through.


You could look at the second highlighted satement like that or you could like at it like I do.  The middle group pulls the far left and far right to a workable centerish level.  If it wasnt for the swing voters we would either be ultra conservative or ultra liberal.  I dont think either is healthy.  What is frustrating is Washington not doing what the people that elected them want because they have there own agenda.  they call it looking a the big picture.  I call it CYA.

Last edited by APRTW (3/14/2011 8:25 pm)

I'm in AP's side with this. Haiti obviously gets a poverty pass, but how much help did Japan give us for Katrina? I say we donate $1.00 to them for their quake for every $1.00 they gave us for Katrina. That should be a very easy check to write.

I'm not very charitable when our own backyard is a disaster. Let me get it cleaned up, and then I'll think about helping you build a pool for yours....

"Indonesian geologist Hery Harjono, who dealt with the 2004 Asian tsunami, said it would be ‘a miracle really if it turns out to be less than 10,000’ dead.
The 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people - but only 184,000 bodies were found."

A disaster so horrific that they round off the number of dead to three decimal places.  Under such an accounting method the death toll from the Oklahoma City bomb would be zero.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1366395/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Haunting-images-450-Britons-feared-missing.html#ixzz1GhVMhLm1