Serephim Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Japan is getting absolutely butt-f***ed right now. 8.9 Earthquake which leads to Tsunami which leads to possible meltdown of two nuclear reactors. What the hell, dude. Earthquake was bad and the Tsunami was even worse. But the possibility of multiple meltdowns is just catastrophic. They're having to resort to methods now that already is estimated to, at the very least, be pumping radioactive steam into the air for months to come. They're calling this the worse disaster since WWII, and the irony is that it may end (again) with nuclear fallout disasters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 My prayers go out to the Japanese, I was interested in finding a way to go out there and assist in some way, whether it be a rebuilding effort or something else. The whole situation fucked though, and at the very least I can donate : \. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Comments like these aren't any better. http://youropenbook.org/?q=Pearl+Habor&gender=any Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 when people try to become trolls like that, it's best of people just ignore them and not glorify their retarded messages. Yeah i wish there was some way i could help. Katrina was bad, Sri Lanka was terrible...but this could be even worse than Sri Lanka if nuclear meltdown is added into the mix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ristar Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 sucks big time doesn't it? an old friend of mine is over there atm, but he's in osaka where it's sort of safe for now. mental though... maybe the sea is having revenge for all the years of whaling/overfishing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 There's absolutely no chance of a nuclear meltdown. the situation is totally under control. The news has been sensationalizing and fear mongering to such an extreme during the course of this, though, that I'm suprised anyone really knows what's going on. What happened is they filled the reactors with sea water so everything is fine on the two that were in danger. if any others get worse, they have security systems in place that can stop it. The sea water is just a last option thing that makes the reactors totally worthless, but gets them down to cold status really quickly. There was a byproduct of lots of hydrogen though, and so it popped the top of the (really flimsy) reactor room. The containment has been unharmed in the process of all this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 the security systems from what i hear are all done for. The tsunami flooded all their equipment that was supposed to stop them from overheating in the first place. Situation is under total control? I doubt that. The third reactor just blew up today, and that was the one that was "somewhat stable" compared to the other two. It didn't breach the reactor, but still. "Total Control" doesn't really mean much at this point, because either way they put it, they're polluting the hell out of that area and possibly more of the country if the winds decide to change. If the cores by chance DO go through a full meltdown, it'll be far worse. Their economy is gonna get raped from this. And to top it off, it pretty much nixes any chance of us adopting Nuclear Power as a main energy source over here for a couple more decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://www.nei.org/ this is unbiased news in regards to the nuclear situation, please read up if you intend on actually arguing about it. There's a lot of twisting that the media (especially American media) does on stuff like this, it's pretty disgusting IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Winslow Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 what you hear is not what is true. Read This before you say anything further. You'll feel alot smarter and safer for it. EDIT: or that one above. whichever you choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 The radiation hitting the west coast is as dangerous as living in Denver for a whole year? Fuck. If anything, this meltdown situation shows how generally safe nuclear power is. An epic disaster strikes and the amount of danger it poses to the public is relatively minimal, if at all. A coal plant explosion would probably have been much worse. Most of what you are hearing about this right now is fear mongering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted March 14, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Guess so. Thanks for that article. In the back of my mind wondered, "this is 2011, how on earth could this reactor have the same issues that one in Russia had those years back AND be in Japan". So do we chock this up to the coal plant owners or something? Yeah even if it's being hyped up really bad, the fact that Nuclear Power is now another 900 years away from being taken seriously still stands. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQurAuU1OBc&feature=related Between big-pharma, big-oil, and big-military, you have the vast majority of advertising on any given news network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shadowgoten Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 haha I can definitely see it as a ploy to get people to hate on nuclear power so companies can get a little bit more cash out of us on the already established power sources. It's pretty disgusting living in a corporatocracy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1LT Worm Posted March 15, 2011 Report Share Posted March 15, 2011 They opened up NHK on my friend's cable. As I was watching, there was a 6.2 aftershock live. The female news anchor got pretty panicky. I was kinda hoping that I'd get activated and go help. A humanitarian mission to a first world country? Word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eminence Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Well it's good to see the man upstairs is keeping them in line. Just kidding. Some of the footage you see is completely surreal; imagining that somewhere in the US like California is trippy. This makes Hurricane Katrina look like a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted March 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Katrina was no joke. This is just....well, worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asuma Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Not worse than the 2004 Tsunami. Killed nearly 300,000 people. This is still bad however you look at it though. Say the death count is over 10,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DimensionWarped Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Yeah, but we actually share more than a superficial level of culture with the Japanese. It only makes sense that on a games forum, we care more about 10,000 Japanese than we do about 250,000 Indians/other Indian Island regional people, because they give us something that we value whereas all we ever see from the rest of these places is cheap crap and telemarketers. I'll be honest with you, I barely even cared when I heard about the tsunami. I just thought at the time "Oh damn!" and went about my life as normal, and yeah, in retrospect I probably should have been a little more reverent, but it wouldn't have helped any of them (and frankly, neither would donating money since dead people really don't have that much use for it). This on the other hand has me feeling like people that I can legitimately relate to are suffering and so it impacts me more even though less people are involved... and let's be honest, 10,000, 350,000, once death tolls start getting higher than 20 we really stop caring how big it is for any reason other than comparison. It's funny though, Union Carbide fucked up more Indians than this disaster even came close to with Japanese and the people who perpetrated that catastrophe basically got off Scot free, so that shows you just how much people value the lives of the Indian people. It's really a tragedy, but such is the fate of people from the 3rd world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serephim Posted March 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Yeah DW, i noticed my unfairly placed symphony with this situation when comparing it with the 2004 Tsunami. Makes me feel like an asshole, but at the same time no matter how i felt, it wasn't really going to change anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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