BaldJean wrote: Equality 7-2521 wrote: timothy leary wrote: What a stupid answer and hardly an excuse, a place where 4 tectonic plates come together with more active volcanoes than any other place on earth, no companies the engineers work for buy real estate, your reasoning is skewed as usual Skewed? I said the engineers designed the plants very well. Considering the turmoil that is happening in the plant, the fact that a full catastrophe hasn't occurred is astonishing. Hats off the Engineers. Yet, somehow that is all moot because the company/government, chose this location for the plant? Yeah, my reasoning is skewed.  The engineers don't pick the location. They design the plants. They've done a good job. You can't design a plant without taking its location into account. And the location, surprise surprise, happens to be Japan, which is well known for its tectonic movements.

Atavachron wrote: Just heartwrenching  footage today of people looking for their loved ones, sometimes whole families, that simply were swept away.  One civil defense worker came home after hours of searching for survivors only to find he'd lost four relatives.  This may be the worst natural tragedy I've seen in my lifetime.

How about the tsunami that didn't happen in Japan? I wouldn't have expected it to be forgotten so soon... And the quake in Haiti is still recent.

And you have been involved in some Slarti first hand! nature is cruel, very cruel. I am glad you didnt say it was God's fault. it is just life. Its the way things are.

Various influence also upon us in the West Japan ... lack of bottled water because of overbuying and overstocking by cold-hearted people and of course water pollution by the nuclear plant destroyed, lack of medicine for reasons of factories of supply damaged ...

Water or some farm products in the East Japan have been polluted by radiation, not much influential upon our (or infant's) body though ... cooling system in the nuclear plant not repaired yet, who knows our future?!

It is tragic, and even more so is it is no longer a feature on our news broadcasts here yet it continues.

Japan faces really big problems — but I’m impressed when I read an article like this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369307/Japan-tsunami-earthquake-Road-repaired-SIX-days-destroyed.html

Hi, Tamijo. Glad to hear you've been unharmed.

Anyway, very sad and horrible news has come here ... afraid the nuclear reactor might have melted down partially?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12845304

That is terrible news Damo - My prayers and hopes go out to the residents of Japan

DamoXt7942 wrote: More serious situation has been heard ... In The Reactor 2 of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, the contaminated water is ten million times as polluted with radioactive substances as water in the reactor normally driven ... What a ominousness!

Fortunately it was just a measuring mistake.

What the hell? Do they think that first stating ten million would make a hundred thousand sound less ominous?
"Phew, only a hundred thousand times stronger than normal. That's a relief!"
Mistake, my arse!


Edited by npjnpj - March 28 2011 at 09:51