While we were sleeping...Earthquakes and Tsunamis

[Cracker]

We are only as fucked as we allow ourselves to be.

Am I the only non-victim here?

[Fibonacci Prima]

We are only as fucked as we allow ourselves to be.

Am I the only non-victim here?

Exactly.

Not at all.

Being a victim is lame.

[Duchess]

Being a victim is weak.

[IMaDick]

I am probably more prepared than any of you, I'm not talking about being a victim, Im talking about us as a country being ready for any of this shit, personal preparedness aside, what are you seeing or hearing our leaders doing right now?

[username]

I am probably more prepared than any of you, I'm not talking about being a victim, Im talking about us as a country being ready for any of this shit, personal preparedness aside, what are you seeing or hearing our leaders doing right now?

I hear the loud sound of nothing.

You guys do realize you're freaking me out, right? :O

What happened in Japan could happen in California. A nice big, fat, 8.9 earthquake. I wonder how our reactors would hold up.

We're all fucked.

[Fibonacci Prima]

I made the mistake of watching footage on CNN for an hour or so today. Save me a seat on the freaked out couch...

[Lady Cop]

many overwhelming & beyond description photos here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...forts.html

[username]

I just heard that we have 7 naval ships there and 4 more on the way. And hundreds of military and rescue personnel out there helping. I'm glad we're helping; it just keeps getting worse.

Christiane Amanpour is there too (straight from Libya). If I were a blind, middle-aged, lesbian, I might have the hots for her. She rocks.

[Luke Warmwater]

If I were a blind, middle-aged, lesbian, I might have the hots for her. She rocks.

no, you'd be Greta Van Susteren...

[username]

If I were a blind, middle-aged, lesbian, I might have the hots for her. She rocks.

no, you'd be Greta Van Susteren...

That's just mean, lol. Anderson Cooper is there too. C'mon Anderson, you're kind of skinny but those eyes... give me a few minutes and you'll switch teams...

[Lady Cop]

powerful new video footage of tsumani hit from BBC---->

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12725646

[Fibonacci Prima]

Mmmm...Anderson. Is it wrong that I think Jim Cantore is adorable too?

Not that I care, but wrong has the element of sizzle.

[Lady Cop]

possible upper air currents carrying radiation prediction.
i have no idea who created this map, i found it in Daily Mail attributed to unnamed "U.S. scientists."

here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...osion.html

[IMaDick]

It really only matters until we spin into the same air as they are in.

It will have a global reach it will never leave the ground or the people or the animals or the plants or the food.

Plutonium-239 (half-life: 24,110 years)

are you ready to deal with the "hills have eyes"?

[NigsWhittington]

All nuclear plants are an earthquake away from failure.

Most plants have a life expectancy of 30 years (40 at the outside) before they become too degraded to be safe. America has around a hundred nuclear power plants, most of them built in the late 60's or early 70's. You do the math.

LOL. All power plants have low life expectancy, even hydrocarbon plants. Do you know a coal power station is only rated to last 50 years?
HOWEVER
You can increase life expectancy infinitely by replacing parts. It's generally accepted to be cheaper than building a new plant.
Fission research has come on in leaps and bounds. All those valves you see now are being phased out. The reason we're dismantling nuke stations is because we can now build them to be more efficient.
Fuck yeah, technology.

i know. i live not too far from one. a number of my friends when i lived up here years ago were nuke plant operators, and their favorite expression was "we're all going to china".
and since my Dad designed some of our earliest reactor vessels for land and for nuke subs (the metals and their fracture properties) i am well aware of what can go wrong. it's some scary shit. i think the locals in the area just live with it and try not to think about it, since it's been there so long.

Silly opinion is silly.
Fission is controlled chaos. Neutrons hit Uranium and cause a thermodynamic reaction. It's controlled by (aptly named) control rods made of 'nuclear poison' this basically absorbs neutrons and muons so you can control how many reactions take place.
Operating at full whack (dumbass idea) will not cause fracture. It will eventually transmute the lead into gold (an alchemists dream.Citation: http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalche...50601a.htm)
which while being a softer metal is better at conducting electricity and therefore increases the efficiency of your reactor. (critical mass is achieved)
Fission CAN be stopped. The only thing left over is heat, which can be dealt with using large quantities of water or air.
Panic, yes.
Disaster? Nope.

[Cracker]

All nuclear plants are an earthquake away from failure.

Most plants have a life expectancy of 30 years (40 at the outside) before they become too degraded to be safe. America has around a hundred nuclear power plants, most of them built in the late 60's or early 70's. You do the math.

LOL. All power plants have low life expectancy, even hydrocarbon plants. Do you know a coal power station is only rated to last 50 years?
HOWEVER
You can increase life expectancy infinitely by replacing parts. It's generally accepted to be cheaper than building a new plant.
Fission research has come on in leaps and bounds. All those valves you see now are being phased out. The reason we're dismantling nuke stations is because we can now build them to be more efficient.
Fuck yeah, technology.

The concrete degrades and errodes/weathers over time. You can't fix that by replacing a part here and a part there. Containment has always been the problem.

[NigsWhittington]

The concrete degrades and errodes/weathers over time. You can't fix that by replacing a part here and a part there. Containment has always been the problem.

You, my friend, are in for a treat:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19...cades.html

Lasers are cool.
Sub zero temps are cool.
Hell, if we switch to full nuclear and use electric cars, we can scrounge up the rest of that oil and use it to blast waste into Jupiter, where the process above will be done for us.

Anyone else need anything fixed?

[NigsWhittington]

It really only matters until we spin into the same air as they are in.

It will have a global reach it will never leave the ground or the people or the animals or the plants or the food.

Plutonium-239 (half-life: 24,110 years)

are you ready to deal with the "hills have eyes"?

Dude, coal plants shoot radioactive material into the atmosphere. You think coal is pure? There be lumps of uranium in there.
Do you like sunbathing? The sun is a huge source of radiation.
You're surrounded by electromagnetic radiation.
Chances are, you'll use some of it to cook food.
If you have an old tv, the cathode tube spews radiation.
Weapons testing above ground (FUCK YOU KOREA) adds to this.

tl;dr: Prepare all you like fucko, you're dying of cancer just like everyone else on this planet.

[Duchess]

I like to sunbathe but I do what I can to get out of cooking.

[IMaDick]

It really only matters until we spin into the same air as they are in.

It will have a global reach it will never leave the ground or the people or the animals or the plants or the food.

Plutonium-239 (half-life: 24,110 years)

are you ready to deal with the "hills have eyes"?

Dude, coal plants shoot radioactive material into the atmosphere. You think coal is pure? There be lumps of uranium in there.
Do you like sunbathing? The sun is a huge source of radiation.
You're surrounded by electromagnetic radiation.
Chances are, you'll use some of it to cook food.
If you have an old tv, the cathode tube spews radiation.
Weapons testing above ground (FUCK YOU KOREA) adds to this.

tl;dr: Prepare all you like fucko, you're dying of cancer just like everyone else on this planet.

I guess telling you to eat shit would be a waste of time and after the fact.

everything emits radiation, but not at 3000 rads.