Earthquake and Tsunami

[slack]

seriously where are the jokes

[creamcorn]

open this link and press and hold f11 haha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.wordtravels.com/images/map/Japan_map.jpg

[lenko]

^ lmao fuck you for making me laugh at that

[Ashington]

if japan is going to have nuclear power plants they're just fission for trouble

[jjjjjjjjjj]

the sharks will have an all u can eat japanese buffet but will only get hungrier 30 minutes later

[jjjjjjjjjj]

wait no thats for chinese food, either way i dont think the sharks can tell the difference

[rtil]

[Sinitron]

saw some satellite photos from google

you can see huge debris fields and shit

http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/jordskje...apan/bilder.php

^scroll down and hover your cursor over the pictures

[cipher]

That is the blackest sea water I've ever seen




And don't take that wrong

[emanhattan]

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/03/...y_to_go_su.html

[Sinitron]

yo fuckups pay attention

explosion in reactor no. 2, fire in reactor no. 4

irradiated clouds have reached tokyo, but it is not at a level where it is considered dangerous... yet

the radiation around the powerplant however is now strong enough to cause severe damage

they do NOT have the situation under control, it's only a matter of time before it goes to hell

the only question remaining is if it will be a bang or a whimper

[funzop]

Wave will hit 8am them crazy white boys gonna try to go surfing. Look this is very serious people I had to evacuate all my hoe's from LA,Hawaii and Japan. I had to do it. Lol (laugh out loud).

good going 50 cent

[Sinitron]

look nobody gives a shit about niggers saying stupid fucking shit because that\\\'s all they\\\'ve ever done and all they ever will do (see: yungjazz)

the greater issue is the risks of potential radioactive pollution and the greater effect on the world economy as well as the booming anti-nuclear sentiments, which have been flaring up in countries like germany where they maintain a number of old nuclear powerplants, which were supposed to be phased out but the demand for power, as well as various political antics, have kept them active

now a ton of people are immensely pissed off that there are still such plants in operation, and there\\\'s bound to be repercussions over time - people will bring up chernobyl and fukushima as examples of why nuclear power is unviable, how it is vulnerable to war, terrorism and natural disasters, and you can already see the economic impact in the stocks of green companies shooting through the roof, while more traditional \\\'black\\\' companies are taking a massive hit to overall value

on a side note, there was a project dabbling into tidal power in norway a few years ago, but it was shut down after funding was cut - after pressure from various corporations and interest groups that deal with oil/gas/coal/nuclear industry elements. this would have been ideal tech for an island nation like japan, but as it turns out the funding that could have been spent on tidal power research was PUT INTO THE VERY SAME NUCLEAR POWERPLANT WHICH IS NOW THREATENING TO MAKE HALF OF JAPAN AN UNINHABITABLE WASTELAND gj faggots

also keep in mind that japan is one of the world\\\'s largest exporters and importers of goods, it\\\'s not some shitty backwater country without any economic power

by all means, the point isn\\\'t OMG 2012 THE END IS HERE, but it\\\'s still a very serious event and the repercussions have the potential to affect all of us in one way or another, discarding it as a triviality and ignoring the on-going events in favor of some bullshit 50cent puked on his twitter page is fucking retarded

[rtil]

chernobyl happened for two reasons - the lack of safety standards and the lack of proper technology to implement them. if this was 40 years ago fukushima plant would have already been in meltdown. the fact that the reactors can withstand a record quake, a tsunami, aftershocks and still be intact is testament to how safe nuclear power actually is if done properly.

media hype almost wants you to believe the plant is going to meltdown. even if the rods melt, the steel casing can still contain them. not to say the situation still isn't very serious, but when people try to compare this to chernobyl it's laughable - technology has come so far since then, especially when you compare the shoddy worksmanship of the former ussr to the modern technological forefront of japan.

[Sinitron]

you give them too much credit

they couldn't withstand the quake/tsunami/aftershocks, there's been constant explosions, fires, and problems for the past few days and only a skeleton crew is left trying to contain the situation, with minimal success, as they were trying to stabilize the reactors but the pressure is fluctuating constantly

this isn't a testament to how 'safe' it is with modern technology, it's a testament to how it's impossible to ever have a completely failsafe system and when it goes wrong it will do irreparable damage which will last for decades or centuries, compared to a shitty hippie windmill which in a worst case scenario can just topple over and crush some idiot who forgot how to use his legs

chernobyl was human fault, fukushima is nature's doing - but it could just as easily have been an act of terrorism or war

the steel casing in at least one of the reactors has been damaged badly by an explosion, but reports vary from something along the lines of EVERYTHING IS FINE (the japanese), THEY MIGHT BE IN FOR A DICKING (the international nuclear scientist whatevers) to WE ARE ALL FUCKED (the french). judging by the clips of a fucking hydrogen explosion knocking the roof off one of the buildings, i'd say everything is definitely NOT ok.

4 out of 6 reactors have suffered extensive damage from all the fires and explosions, and the cooling is failing in the remaining 2

the only thing certain is that it will not ever be as bad as chernobyl was due to the way the reactors are built up, their capacity, and the materials used to secure them, as well as the fact that the chernobyl meltdown happened while the reactors were operating at normal levels, while the fukushima ones have been mostly shut down. most of any potential radioactive pollution will be 'local' around the powerplant, but whether that means a couple, a dozen or a hundred kilometers has not been specified in any articles or press releases i have read.

nuclear fusion is badass and all, but there's no way in hell i would choose a nuclear powerplant if i could pick something that wouldn't potentially blow up in my face, especially since we experienced the effects of chernobyl when it happened and the plants in sweden are already too close for comfort

[rtil]

well wind power just can't measure up to nuclear power at all in terms of its efficiency and capacity, neither does any other "clean" energy alternative.. there's a lot of great things about nuclear power, most notably the energy to waste ratio is so much better than coal, and coal is actually far more toxic when being used as a power source.

as far as accidents go, considering how many nuclear power plants there are and how many major disasters there have been, your odds are pretty low (>1%). everyone knows everything isn't fine at fukushima, but they are doing their best and the reactor failsafe systems did the best job they could considering that everything that could go wrong pretty much has gone wrong.

i don't think nuclear power is the solution to our energy problems in the future, but it's a much better alternative than coal, and wind and solar just aren't enough to supply the world.

[BluPhoenix]

looks like today we're gonna be pounded by numerous tsunami waves, hit by an earthquake, have the roofs blow off our nuclear reactors and have a possible meltdown




good thing ive got my orange juice

[jjjjjjjjjj]

weather machine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_76qhJXMPo

[rtil]

every time there's a major earthquake near a populated area conspiracy theorists blame HAARP

[cipher]

On a side note, I'm tired of people comparing this to pearl harbor


wtf