Japan hit by 8.8 magnitude quake - major tsunami event underway

[Shatterer of Dreams]

some experts are calling for southern California to get hit with an Earthquake in the coming weeks...I HOPE not!

Californians take precautions

yeah the guy who predicted the big SF quake in '89 is saying one is hitting this Saturday.....where the hell he's been for the last 20 years?

 

[ProgMatinee]

growing up in cali, i remember simply just worrying about the "big one". I lived in San Jose during the 89 quake without a scratch, but the sense of not knowing when/if it will happens stayed with me the next 6 years I lived there.

over the past week i have had visions of the next one in cali and being able to feel it in colorado.

yes, i am paranoid.

 

[BuddyGus]

Guess it is good I am leaving California in a few hours. Of course, I will probably just make it home for the Tsunami warning in Hawaii.

 

[Batty]

I'm ready for anything cause I have my trusty......

I can't see that pic...but I can imagine.

 

[The Ween]

I can't see that pic...but I can imagine.

Nah....duct tape! It will save you from any dire situation.

 

[VASith]

Nah....duct tape! It will save you from any dire situation.

It can also be used as swimwear.

 

[hoodonit00]

It can also be used as swimwear.

I don't care how close she shaved that still had to hurt like a _____ when she took it off.

 

[ProgMatinee]

ah, memories of duct tape. my wife, when we were dating, used duct tape as a brassier once. i had some fun with that.

 

[Batty]

Nah....duct tape! It will save you from any dire situation.

I thought duct tape. Wait...what did you think I meant?

 

[Batty]

This is a video that was made to explain the nuclear crisis to kids in Japan. If I was a kid watching this, I'd think nuclear reactors produced poo.

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[King Darkness]

 

[devilof76]

The nuclear plant just has gas???

What the hell. All this time the media has been making me think that something serious was happening over there. I'm much more comfortable with the idea of a reactor that ate too much tempura than one that will make me vomit blood.

 

[The Ween]

This is a video that was made to explain the nuclear crisis to kids in Japan. If I was a kid watching this, I'd think nuclear reactors produced poo.

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Being someone who works with little ones, that is actually a pretty good way for them to explain it.

 

[The Ween]

The nuclear plant just has gas???

What the hell. All this time the media has been making me think that something serious was happening over there. I'm much more comfortable with the idea of a reactor that ate too much tempura than one that will make me vomit blood.

Hopefully it won't take a big dump and fling it at us!

 

[devilof76]

Nuclear monkeys!!!!!

 

[The Ween]

Nuclear monkeys!!!!!

 

[Blackthornone]

You would think that the Japanese would have been more circumspect about building nuclear power plants after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I guess they forgot that energy is dangerous.This situation is like when rich people build expensive homes on the side of a hill where mudslides can happen, just so they can have a great view. Then when their house slides down the hill and is destroyed, they act as if it wasn't their fault, and they want the government to help them.

You always have to build things for the worst case scenario, and if that worst case scenario is death, and you don't do it because it's too costly, and you believe that the worst case scenario isn't worth building for, then at that moment you accept the possibility that people will die someday as a result of that decision, and thus, the Japanese thought that it would be ok if people died sometime in the future as long as people had nuclear power today.

It sucks when people have such little regard for the value of human life,or the arrogance to believe that they are above the laws of nature.

 

[devilof76]

You don't think it was overly generous of them to give you this opportunity to wax superior at the expense of their suffering? Honestly, when else would you have the opportunity to show the world how primitive and low they are compared to you?

They could have built it to withstand an 8.9 instead of a 7.9, you know? They could have built it to withstand a 22 foot wave instead of an 18, and then where would you be?

I think you should count your blessings. I realize it hasn't degraded into a total meltdown, and there aren't going to be catastrophic consequences from their hateful and greedy neglect, but you did get a pretty big soapbox for what it's worth. You really should be more grateful.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

You would think that the Japanese would have been more circumspect about building nuclear power plants after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I guess they forgot that energy is dangerous.This situation is like when rich people build expensive homes on the side of a hill where mudslides can happen, just so they can have a great view. Then when their house slides down the hill and is destroyed, they act as if it wasn't their fault, and they want the government to help them.

You always have to build things for the worst case scenario, and if that worst case scenario is death, and you don't do it because it's too costly, and you believe that the worst case scenario isn't worth building for, then at that moment you accept the possibility that people will die someday as a result of that decision, and thus, the Japanese thought that it would be ok if people died sometime in the future as long as people had nuclear power today.

It sucks when people have such little regard for the value of human life,or the arrogance to believe that they are above the laws of nature.

oh joy...you're here

 

[Kuzeh]

You would think that the Japanese would have been more circumspect about building nuclear power plants after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I guess they forgot that energy is dangerous.This situation is like when rich people build expensive homes on the side of a hill where mudslides can happen, just so they can have a great view. Then when their house slides down the hill and is destroyed, they act as if it wasn't their fault, and they want the government to help them.

You always have to build things for the worst case scenario, and if that worst case scenario is death, and you don't do it because it's too costly, and you believe that the worst case scenario isn't worth building for, then at that moment you accept the possibility that people will die someday as a result of that decision, and thus, the Japanese thought that it would be ok if people died sometime in the future as long as people had nuclear power today.

It sucks when people have such little regard for the value of human life,or the arrogance to believe that they are above the laws of nature.

Not sure what your point is... but that happens ALL the time EVERYWHERE in the world...

There's a nuclear plant here, north of San Diego, it's right next to the ocean. Just last week they said it's designed to withhold a 7.5 magnitude earthquake... Last year we had a 6.9 one... a little more and that plant would've been in serious problems...