I’ve just about had it with the fucking rules.
Timeout is over, I take it.
“A workingman’s hero is something to be”
The banability in this one is strong…
So the tsunami on March 11th destroyed a barge. In San Diego. “Lifeguards say the surge around 1:30am caused a 100,000 pound barge to break free for the second time in less than 12 hours.”
Can’t imagine a 20 foot tsunami is going to do the barge full of fresh water much good. I hope for the best. It’s like it just never ends.
WTF?
I thought this thread was about radiation.
So it was radiation that caused the barge to break loose?
Does the shock of an earthquake not radiate outwards? Duh.
To be quite honest, it’s gotten to the stage where i don’t even believe you when you say this.
You actually strike me as the sort of person who pretends to be concerned about things like the current tsunami cleanup and nuclear crisis, but who actually revels in every new piece of bad news. You act like the sort of asshole who would be quite happy with a few thousand extra radiation deaths if you thought it would provide support for your gibbering idiotic ranting.
Wait, there was an earthquake in Japan? News to me.
CNN has a reporter up north and said the tsunami was small there, but the earthquake was the worst since the big one. People are very nervous when the ‘aftershocks’ happen. It’s fucking not just awful, it’s godawful. Cold, no electricity, little food and sheltering in buildings that shake like hell, all the time.
She said there are after shocks every day, and while she has gotten used to the, every time it happens people get upset. Especially when the tsunami warnings go off.
I can’t even imagine. It was a shallow 6.5 off the coast.
Watching the live news, it seems official. Meltdown of reactor #2
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/81431.html
Not really a surprise to me, since the elements found in the fall out are evidence of damaged/melted fuel rods, and they showed up before the ‘possible’ fire in the containment pool of #4
But it’s officially bad news.
It’s not news to anyone since they have been saying that some of the fuel rods almost surely had partial melt downs. They have been saying that since, oh, the second or third day, and I’ve read some experts who say it would have actually been better to LET the things melt down instead of trying to prevent it using sea water. Don’t know about that last part, but I do know that this is not news to anyone who has been paying attention. Why you think that this changes anything is beyond me.
(Your cite saying nothing about a ‘possible’ fire in the containment pool #4 btw…seems unlikely, since it’s, well, a big pool of water which isn’t likely to burn. Did you mean under the pool, or near the pool…or perhaps there is a fire somewhere in Japan?)
-XT
You’re funny. You talk as if you actually know what you’re on about, as if you have some knowledge or information that isn’t available to any schlub with an internet connection and the ability to search Google News.
Good summary. I was hoping that this Pit thread would mean that the OP could keep his bullshit hysterical ramblings in here instead of spewing them all over three or four separate threads on this topic, but sadly no such luck.
What with the extremely serious news coming in, and the impossible situation they face to simply keep things from getting worse, I don’t even feel like ranting today.
For those living under a rock,
** Fukushima is now a Level 7**
I assume you’re citing Greenpeace Germany for that, or is there another source you’re relying on?
Also it’s worth noting that where it’s actually at now, it got that way only because of one of the worst natural disasters in recent history, and one that’s already dwarfed the loss of life that’s likely to come about from the reactors themselves.
Fuck, you don’t need an official to tell you it’s bad at this point. But, if it makes you feel better, just ignore that deadly levels of radioactive material are now outside the containment building.
So, that’s a yes, your source is Greenpeace: Germany?
Do you have a cite that shows it’s been set to level 7? A quick Google search shows me the Greenpeace reference Finn mentioned and a bunch of whacky anti-nuke sites ranting about how it’s really an 8 or a 10 now, blah blah blah.
I haven’t heard that there is deadly levels of radioactive material outside of the containment BUILDING, but some of the water outside of the containment VESSEL are certainly very high (1000 mSv/hour is what I was reading earlier…that’s definitely serious contamination since if you were there for an hour you would certainly be in danger of serious radiation poisoning).
-XT
Well, I’m not going to be your personal news feed. So if you can’t bother to spend 30 seconds reading the morning headlines, sorry about your luck.