Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Disaster!!!

[Coligny]

Matching soundtrack...

(going to hell)

So, what are we supposed to do if.... ehm... when... we get ourselves cought in a tsunami ?
Leaving the car is madness, staying inside don't sound to good either... I wonder if using air from the spare wheel can work against the ingress water like in the movie Transporter 3... This kind of situation also totally justify having TV in the car, would have been the best way to know how badly the sh1t was going to hit the fan...

[Yokohammer]

6:51 this morning.
5- in Aomori and Iwate, plus a tsunami warning.
Magnitude 6.7 off the Iwate coast.
Another aftershock, I assume.

Wasn't so bad here in southern Miyagi, but Canman would have felt that one.

[canman]

Morning all! just finished picking up all my wife's cosmetics and other things that went flying thanks to our seismic wake up call. Strongest quake we've had since April 11th. Any word on the Shinkansen running or not?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Any word on the Shinkansen running or not?

Forget about the Shinkansen, mate. Judging by the sounds of that seismic activity, the only running I'd be thinking of is toward the highest, safest place around.

Glad to hear you're OK.

[Yokohammer]

Morning all! just finished picking up all my wife's cosmetics and other things that went flying thanks to our seismic wake up call. Strongest quake we've had since April 11th. Any word on the Shinkansen running or not?

Great. Thanks for checking in Canman.
I figured there'd be some shaking going on where you're at.

[Mulboyne]

Estimates of the scale of the impact of the quake in other parts of the country have been revised up. Because of the duration, meter readings may have been misleading. Tokyo was generally believed to have experienced level 3 but meters at Shirogane in Minato-ku show a more accurate estimate would be level 5.

Source

[Ganma]

[sirwanksalot]

Sounds like nonsense to me. You could link up any kind of statistical increase or decrease to any event if you wanted to.

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Scientific America deemed those statistics as a cherry picked hoax.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=are-babies-dying-in-the-pacific-nor-2011-06-21

[matsuki]

With all that talk about hot particles getting stuck in the air filters of vehicles, it makes me wonder how many would get stuck in laundry hung out to dry...even if false, it might prove worthwhile as I could do without seeing all the neighborhood grandma panties displayed on sunny days.

[Coligny]

Scientific America deemed those statistics as a cherry picked hoax.

Back home we call this a Lapalissade... Same as "I'm climbing up upstairs"

Or just in case i'm a bit too obscure:

There are 3 kind of lies:

Lies

Big Lies

Statistics

Works for booth sides anyway...

[Coligny]

Another report on the decades long tradition from Tepco to fuck up anything they can under the sun:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/us-japan-nuclear-idUSTRE75N18A20110624

[Ganma]

Another report on the decades long tradition from Tepco to fuck up anything they can under the sun:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/24/us-japan-nuclear-idUSTRE75N18A20110624

Tokyo Electric, also included a quiet effort to skirt Japan's safety rules: foreign workers were brought in for the most dangerous jobs, a manager of the project said.

The workaround was to bring in foreign workers who would absorb a full-year's allowable dose of radiation of between 20 millisieverts and 25 millisieverts in just a few days.

Tokyo Electric would admit five years later it had hid evidence of the extent of the defect in the shroud from regulators.

Out-bloody-rageous.
It's time for Tepco to face an international tribunal.

[Coligny]

If this piss you off, how aboot these:

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-children-as-subjects.html

Cherry picking:

• Some schools and kindergartens are having the parents sign a consent form to let their children play on the schoolyards, and use the consent as some sort of endorsement for "safety" when someone questions the wisdom.
• Some junior high schools say they will give students who skip the outdoor PE class the lowest grade, even if that significantly lower the grade point average for the seniors trying to get into good high schools.

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/06/radiation-in-japan-experiment-just-got.html



And they just lost an RQ-16 crash landing on the roof or reactor #2, no cause yet.

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110624D24JF762.htm

[Russell]

A news crew follows a family of sake brewers as they return to Futaba, a town within the Fukushima Daiichi exclusion zone.

Their ancestors started the business in the Edo Period. But now that business has been suspended because their home and brewery is 3.6 kilometers from the nuclear plant.

They were close enough to hear the hydrogen explosion that took place on March 12th. Although they had no electricity at the time and did not know that an evacuation had been ordered, they left anyway.

It now seems that they will never be able to move back into their home and re-open that brewery, but they still want to revive their family sake business. To maintain the unique traditional flavor of their sake, they needed some of the yeast from their brewery. Authorities gave them special permission to enter the restricted area and retrieve the yeast. Although the brewery had suffered some damage from aftershocks, the yeast was safe!

[damn name]

Yeast infections always gave Noriko that "traditional" taste...

[Mike Oxlong]

Looks like MOFA has decided to fork out some cash to bring back their former ambassadors of j-luv.

Free one-week stay for Tohoku JET alums interested in helping out former communities

MoFA and JNTO are willing to fly Tohoku JET alums back to Japan for a week for any JET alums willing to play a role in helping out their former communities and then help spread word of what they saw and experienced after their trip...

http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2011/06/23/free-one-week-stay-for-tohoku-jet-alums-interested-in-helping-out-former-communities/

[Greji]

Yeast infections always gave Noriko that "traditional" taste...

The only problem is that now your tongue will glow in the dark....

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'm positive that Noriko's yeast infection -- especially irradiated -- would be wonderful for Vegemite, Australia's national dish and a yeast extract.

[Coligny]

MoFA and JNTO are willing to fly Tohoku JET alums back to Japan for a week for any JET alums willing to play a role in helping out their former communities and then help spread word of what they saw and experienced after their trip...

Yeah... there is absolutely no way this sh1t is going to backfire...

So now they've gone full retard and some more...

[Mike Oxlong]

Just like when these alumni were on JET program, they'll be flown over biz class, put up in a ritzy Tokyo hotel for a bit, then taken on a carefully guided tour of Tohoku, and then a big party and pat on the back before jetting home again at taxpayer expense. Tell everyone about how Japan is safe and wonderful...

[Ganma]

Just like when these alumni were on JET program, they'll be flown over biz class, put up in a ritzy Tokyo hotel for a bit, then taken on a carefully guided tour of Tohoku, and then a big party and pat on the back before jetting home again at taxpayer expense. Tell everyone about how Japan is safe and wonderful...

Not all JETs are stupid. I agree with Coligny. I bet it will backfire .

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I think the best use government money could be put to at the moment is stopping the fucking radiation from leaking.....

[Ganma]

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Up 39% without giving a total number of cases doesn't mean as much as it could, especially when in a newspaper article ripping off a story from another newspaper.
I wouldn't deny the mental health effects, though. I pray those who need help get some ASAP.

[Greji]

Just like when these alumni were on JET program, they'll be flown over biz class, put up in a ritzy Tokyo hotel for a bit, then taken on a carefully guided tour of Tohoku, and then a big party and pat on the back before jetting home again at taxpayer expense. Tell everyone about how Japan is safe and wonderful...

Lot of former JETs that I have met, say that after their experiences in that program, they wouldn't come back to Japan unless it was at the controls of a bomber....

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Lot of former JETs that I have met, say that after their experiences in that program, they wouldn't come back to Japan unless it was at the controls of a bomber....

Sounds like a lot of the JICA trainees they bring over from the third world...

[Coligny]

Lot of former JETs that I have met, say that after their experiences in that program, they wouldn't come back to Japan unless it was at the controls of a bomber....

How unsophisticamated of dem'

A Reaper could nuke dat'shit from their living room... with their X-Box...

I can even laser-designate sum' targets if they want... Just have to tie the cats first because as LGB's they are more than kick'asses... (or LGC... in this case, that's it... I'm calling the next one Paveway...)

[matsuki]

brewery is 3.6 kilometers from the nuclear plant.

Although the brewery had suffered some damage from aftershocks, the yeast was safe!

Yeah, sounds safe to me...

[Russell]

Yeah, sounds safe to me...

Well, in the worst case, it mutates to some different type of yeast...

[Jack]

Not all JETs are stupid.

Got any proof?