You kidding me? When will it stop srsly :(
9.0 earthquake hits Japan
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Brutha popped up on a recorded video and was all, "Wut up my peeps? Shit's all fucked up but we Japan, 1,000 years!!"
…or was that 50 cent?
......or Gilbert-I just lost the one good thing I had going-Gottfried?
........or a Family Guy writer?Who cares.
He came on a recorded message and was like, "Hello, this is very sad, let's be strong and move forward. AND I HAVE SQUISHY CHEEKS!"
Okay I made up the first half of that.
Here's EXACTLY what is going on. The straight facts no bullshit no drama.
Unit 1 is pretty stable. It's been relatively quiet since it blew the fuck up early on and released hydrogen. No need to worry about it.
Unit 2 possibly suffered a partial meltdown after the rods were exposed for some time. There was an explosion heard from it a few days ago, supposedly from the underground suppression chamber, but all things considered it seems OKAY.
Unit 3 is a mystery. White smoke/steam began leaking out today and may very well still be. That smoke/steam, given the length of time it's been flowing, is probably steam from water. This is a problem because water must be present to surround and cool the fuel rods. Unit 3's status is currently unknown and might be very serious. Unit 3 is the fucker that dramatically exploded releasing hydrogen gas that everyone in California is stupidly shitting themselves over.
Unit 4 is unique in that the fuel rods are actually exposed outside the double-layered protection chambers. They were removed shortly after the quake and placed into a 'used fuel' pool. It is imperative to keep them cool with water and at times that water has been blocked and elevated temperature readings were recorded. We have not since heard about the status. Oh, and there are some bigass holes all over the unit which is not cool since the rods are exposed.
That's where the units stand.
As for the measured Siever amounts (think of it as radiation amount) the news is serious but safe.
Here's a handy chart
50microSv- A chest X-ray
200microSv- A trip to NYC from Narita by plane
2000microSv- The amount of radiation we absorb from space in a year
6000microSv- The amount of radiation you're exposed to from a CAT scan
10,000microSv- Shit's not looking so good.So what were the levels measured in Tokyo that everyone is SUPPOSEDLY going bat-shit insane over?
23microSv
Yes 23.
And that was briefly.
That means the douchebags fleeing back home to mama and papa at this point are ironically being exposed to more radiation in their plane home.
As for the site itself, it is quite serious. The plant readings jumped to 2399microSv today for 10 minutes from 10:20-10:30. Then they remained at 1,000.
I would not want to start licking lamposts and guzzling milk for a few weeks straight there, but it's still negligible.
What's serious is that readings have not gone down and hovered around 1,000 at the plant. So what happens if that continues to rise? Well, it could be a problem, I mean, it IS a goddamn nuclear power plant. But there is NO need to panic and no need to even follow the radiation prevent procedures on the news when outside.
The situation could change at any minute, but that's exactly what is really happening as of this writing.
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I now affectionately refer to them as Rei, Asuka, Toji and Unknown ftr.
Stop being a bitch Toji.
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I now affectionately refer to them as Rei, Asuka, Toji and Unknown ftr.
Stop being a bitch Toji.
Well, that puts things into perspective faster and more clearly than the long write up.
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I heard the reporters mentioning something about a fifth and sixth set of units that are not operating, but presented some kind of concern. Is there any truth to that?
Thanks for the update.
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Brutha popped up on a recorded video and was all, "Wut up my peeps? Shit's all fucked up but we Japan, 1,000 years!!"
…or was that 50 cent?
......or Gilbert-I just lost the one good thing I had going-Gottfried?
........or a Family Guy writer?Who cares.
He came on a recorded message and was like, "Hello, this is very sad, let's be strong and move forward. AND I HAVE SQUISHY CHEEKS!"
Okay I made up the first half of that.
Here's EXACTLY what is going on. The straight facts no bullshit no drama.
Unit 1 is pretty stable. It's been relatively quiet since it blew the fuck up early on and released hydrogen. No need to worry about it.
Unit 2 possibly suffered a partial meltdown after the rods were exposed for some time. There was an explosion heard from it a few days ago, supposedly from the underground suppression chamber, but all things considered it seems OKAY.
Unit 3 is a mystery. White smoke/steam began leaking out today and may very well still be. That smoke/steam, given the length of time it's been flowing, is probably steam from water. This is a problem because water must be present to surround and cool the fuel rods. Unit 3's status is currently unknown and might be very serious. Unit 3 is the fucker that dramatically exploded releasing hydrogen gas that everyone in California is stupidly shitting themselves over.
Unit 4 is unique in that the fuel rods are actually exposed outside the double-layered protection chambers. They were removed shortly after the quake and placed into a 'used fuel' pool. It is imperative to keep them cool with water and at times that water has been blocked and elevated temperature readings were recorded. We have not since heard about the status. Oh, and there are some bigass holes all over the unit which is not cool since the rods are exposed.
That's where the units stand.
As for the measured Siever amounts (think of it as radiation amount) the news is serious but safe.
Here's a handy chart
50microSv- A chest X-ray
200microSv- A trip to NYC from Narita by plane
2000microSv- The amount of radiation we absorb from space in a year
6000microSv- The amount of radiation you're exposed to from a CAT scan
10,000microSv- Shit's not looking so good.So what were the levels measured in Tokyo that everyone is SUPPOSEDLY going bat-shit insane over?
23microSv
Yes 23.
And that was briefly.
That means the douchebags fleeing back home to mama and papa at this point are ironically being exposed to more radiation in their plane home.
As for the site itself, it is quite serious. The plant readings jumped to 2399microSv today for 10 minutes from 10:20-10:30. Then they remained at 1,000.
I would not want to start licking lamposts and guzzling milk for a few weeks straight there, but it's still negligible.
What's serious is that readings have not gone down and hovered around 1,000 at the plant. So what happens if that continues to rise? Well, it could be a problem, I mean, it IS a goddamn nuclear power plant. But there is NO need to panic and no need to even follow the radiation prevent procedures on the news when outside.
The situation could change at any minute, but that's exactly what is really happening as of this writing.
Very good post and really thanks for the update. Perhaps only a question
So if there is 23 microSv measured in Tokyo I wonder what exactly does that mean for Human body. Meaning how much of microSv is absored in our body per day.
As for Xray you are not exactly taking it 1 hour and if you would take it for 24h streight how much of microSv would that be? Well a lot…
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In Finland, natural radiation level is 40-80 microSv. Always.
23 microSv is nothing and won't harm anybody. And it was there for a mere few hours. Then it went down to normal. -
Well that's some good news.
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This absolutely sickens me. A Game developer using 'likes' before they'll donate to Japan. Looks like some people are just using it as an excuse to get recognition >.< Sick.
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This absolutely sickens me. A Game developer using 'likes' before they'll donate to Japan. Looks like some people are just using it as an excuse to get recognition >.< Sick.
On one note, I agree it's a low-blow.
On a side-note. Fuck 25.000 likes? I'll like that shit just so they release that cash.
We can do that easily and it's better than writing a post about how shitty their idea is which is wasting YOUR time and the person who is reading it.
Instead these people try to garnish a bit of extra cash, care if it's PR. I won't buy their products anyway, that's all up to me.
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@Al!naJames:
In Finland, natural radiation level is 40-80 microSv. Always.
microSv/year or microSv/day?
Day would be pretty high and year much to low in my eyes.
Average dose to US public from natural sources is around 3mSv/year (3000 microSV). Every country has around 2000-4000 microSv the year. Source is a swiss site.Anyway here are the news release from NISA
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Natural background radiation is said to be 0,04 - 0,30 microSv per hour in Finland.
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My good friend and proxy in Kyoto tells me that they fear the death toll for Tsunami and Earthquake related casualties can top the 15,000. She is really conserned since she have family members whom lived throught the Atomic Bombings, and with all this new threat of the nuclear plants releasing radioactivity, she fears the worst. Particularly because if a lot of radiation get liberated by the melting of the container holders , then the wind can play an important role in how and where it spread and not to mention that if it hits the ocean or water ways caused by the Tsunami, then horrible things can happen in the long term.
I wish I could volunteer myself for relief operations with the Army , however my company is destined to be deployed sometime this year to either South Korea or the Middle East (again) =/ , god bless Japan.
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I was never good in physics, so I hope somebody can me answer my question. How is it possible that the ratings for radiation can decrease so fast? I thought once an area is radiated it's fucked. That same goes for the power plant. The workers had to leave the plant once because the radiation was too high. Got that. How can that decrease again?
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The radiation disperse.
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@Al!naJames:
In Finland, natural radiation level is 40-80 microSv. Always.
23 microSv is nothing and won't harm anybody. And it was there for a mere few hours. Then it went down to normal.Thanks for the info
Will however ask again. 24 microSv per hour/ day / week/ month /year
It makes difference so which of these
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looks like Japan is now getting flak for not reporting the same as the other countries are.
Ridiculous. Considering Japan is the only news report that is consistant whereas everywhere else seems to be completely different :/
Saw this too:
I think I'm gonna print it off and show it to the lot who have had a tiny bit of our street dug up for almost a week now.
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looks like Japan is now getting flak for not reporting the same as the other countries are.
Ridiculous. Considering Japan is the only news report that is consistant whereas everywhere else seems to be completely different :/
Saw this too:
I think I'm gonna print it off and show it to the lot who have had a tiny bit of our street dug up for almost a week now.
Just wanted to post it. Well here it would take them 10 years to fix it.
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looks like Japan is now getting flak for not reporting the same as the other countries are.
Ridiculous. Considering Japan is the only news report that is consistant whereas everywhere else seems to be completely different :/
Saw this too:
I think I'm gonna print it off and show it to the lot who have had a tiny bit of our street dug up for almost a week now.
Shit, that's a great idea. I'm gonna print out dozens of these and just throw them out my window when going through lollygagging construction zones.
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I was never good in physics, so I hope somebody can me answer my question. How is it possible that the ratings for radiation can decrease so fast? I thought once an area is radiated it's fucked. That same goes for the power plant. The workers had to leave the plant once because the radiation was too high. Got that. How can that decrease again?
Thx in advance.Not every radiation is the same. Radiation travels in waves or in matter. If it's the latter everything is more dependant on the weather, i.e. wind, humidity, position of the sun. Waves are naturally transient so the radiation will mostly disappear with them, but they irradiate organism extremely fast.
Basically the gases that leaked from Fukushima contain radioactive matter, however the radiation that escaped directly around the power plant were radiation waves.
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Well this just says it all about the whole news reports.
BBC news at 10 is currently saying there is no hope for the power plant as it's failing.
Yet their own website says otherwise.
Also. TEPCO has apparently finished (or almost finished) an electricity supply line which should let them restart the primary water pumps !!!
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.I'm not sure what's more shocking. The road looking like that or the fact that it's almost as good as new in less than a week…
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I'm not sure what's more shocking. The road looking like that or the fact that it's almost as good as new in less than a week…
Or the fact that it takes longer for them in the UK to do a street corner?
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in less than 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.That's hardcore, the japanese are like ants. But nice to see.
Here it would take them at least two weeks to place the traffic cones.
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in less than 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.That is pretty awesome.
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Jesus, they fixed that shit in three days?
Japanese are hard-core.
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in less than 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.Ho. Lee. Shit.
Can we get some Japanese workers here in Michigan, the land of four seasons, Winter, 1 hr-1 week of Spring, Construction and FUCKYOUWINTER?
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It takes them 3 days to fix that and takes Jersey 3 years to fix a damn pothole.
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Only thing could have done it quicker would be Optimus Prime with his ass covered in butter.
Respect.
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Damn this new road they're building out here would've been done in 3 days had they been on the job, not nearly 6 months =_=
Also, this was on the local news the last hour and wow. WOW. Geography lessons are needed: http://www.wfaa.com/video?id=118125629&sec=552927
Also a bit after a minute in explains why you shouldn't be gorging down potassium iodide pills.
Well this just says it all about the whole news reports.
BBC news at 10 is currently saying there is no hope for the power plant as it's failing.
Yet their own website says otherwise.
Also. TEPCO has apparently finished (or almost finished) an electricity supply line which should let them restart the primary water pumps !!!
I beleive the license for Fukushima was up this month or next and the dismantling was set to begin anyway (not sure if it was just Unit 01 or all of it). I'm sure though once they've got the situation handled, they may just go ahead and take the whole thing down. Sounds good at this point.
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http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in less than 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.The speed of leveling that road alone is an incredible feat.
What does the characters in both pictures say Bluebeard?
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I think someone reposted the translated version a couple of post from Ao.
Here,
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EDIT: Or you're talking about those longer texts?
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Thanks .
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Japan, you are unbelievable. I love you.
That reminds me btw of this
Hiroshima 1945 - Hiroshima Today
Tokyo 1923 - Tokyo Today
Kobe 1995 - Kobe Today
Like before, they will rise again.Found it on Tumblr, as usual.
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I would LOVE to see that kind of quickie construction for our roads in Winnipeg, Manitoba. God knows what a joke our roads are!
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Japanese can be proud of themselves.
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Wow, just wow. Simply awesome.
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It's like SIM CITY…only real! :blink:
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Hrm. New season of South Park starts in about a month.
I wonder if they'll deal with this.
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Toji you motherfucker, stop being a bitch I swear to God….please?
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I thought this was interesting. Anime Fans Give Back to Japan is even noted on an OP club on dA:
http://1piecefans.deviantart.com/blog/39150847/
Nothing all that big, but still~
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Toshi you motherfucker, stop being a bitch I swear to God….please?
"Toji" greg, how far exactly are you from Toji?
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Thanks captain. I have that 'Speak Like a Japanese Hooker' vid on the brain.
260 miles southwest so 200 miles outside what the US embassy is calling for as evacuation radius.
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[qimg]http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/5972/ca506248.jpg[/qimg]
Left = 3/11
Right = 3/15This is why Japan is the master of rebuilding.
We cleaned up the mess of Hanshin EQ in five years, and rebuilt Hiroshima from ashes in less than 10.
Japan may be the fastest in the world when it comes to recovery.This is the might and power of Japan. This disaster is nothing but dirt on their shoulder.
@RobbyBevard:Hrm. New season of South Park starts in about a month.
I wonder if they'll deal with this.
Oh God, they better not do any stupid shit.
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Japan doesn't fuck around with construction. I couldn't even imagine if they did stuff like that that fast in the US.
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ah, that's a good distance. thank you.
edit: regarding construction; they still haven't built anything where the world trade center was, have they. :\
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I'm essentially taking the extremely cautious figures from the US embassy and doubling them to be absolutely certain. If (knock on wood) they reach over 100 miles, we're outta here. Probably safe but better to be absolutely safe than 'probably' safe.
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This is really starting to bother me right now. Hope you and your family be safe Greg.