Japan six months later

[punkypink (imported)]

I'd have to say that leaving what is clearly an abandoned car there but keeping it cleaned continously seems to be slightly misplaced priorities to me. Also, that car seems to have gone unscathed. Really curious thing that.

[fhunter]

You don't see the truth.

This truth glows in the dark, or responds on a Geiger counter, leaves an image like light exposure on old fashioned photo film,

and is present in Japan's food supply.

What is the half life of the stuff? When half the glow goes away?

Longer then human civilization?

Moi

Just say no to Nuclear.

It only has to fail once.

To repeat one man:

I'll better settle in 10km radius from RBMK-1000 reactor, than 10km downstream from the hydroelectric station. In case of even chernobyl type event, I have very high probability of being evacuated in time. In case of catastrophic failure on hydroelectric station, I'll be just flushed down the stream without any hopes.

Moi, properly maintained and designed reactor is safe. See for example Toshiba's 4S - it does not even require continued maintance.

[fhunter]

Yup. I also know thyroid cancer in Ukraine has taken a sharp and predicted rise.

MoiHalf-life of radioactive Iodine-131 is only 8 days. Iodine-131 was the prime cause of thyroid cancer (and not using potassium iodide for protection), right after the reactor explosion. How many half-lives ago was that?

So what is causing thyroid cancer now?

[Arab Nights (imported)]

Thank you for the link to these photos. I have been following the cleanup efforts in the Japanese newspapers, but had not found anything like these.

I thought you and wife might find these interesting.

[indiekid (imported)]

I remember watching the Top Gear special where they go on the road trip across America and being deeply shocked at the amount of destruction still in New Orleans a year after Hurricane Katrina, this is amazing compared to that. I read a few weeks ago that Japan tourist board where planning to give heavily discounted or even free flights to people to go and visit Japan with you writing a blog about there experiences, this would probably be the best time to visit the country and help it get back on it's feet.

[moi621 (imported)]

What about this mess? They could clean it up with their renown fishing fleets.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/20-mi ... 40503.html

" . . . Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris--furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators--sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific. Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could approach the U.S. West Coast in the next three years, the UK Daily Mail reports. . . ."

From the map in the article, it looks like it is going to hit Slammr's beaches and not mine. Then again the coastal current will distribute it southward. I think they call it the "Japanese Current". Don't blame me. I am not making it up.

I believe every silver lining hides a dark cloud.

Moi

[indiekid (imported)]

What about this mess? They could clean it up with their renown fishing fleets.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/20-mi ... 40503.html

" . . . Some 5 to 20 million tons of debris--furniture, fishing boats, refrigerators--sucked into the Pacific Ocean in the wake of Japan's March 11 earthquake and tsunami are moving rapidly across the Pacific. Researchers from the University of Hawaii tracking the wreckage estimate it could approach the U.S. West Coast in the next three years, the UK Daily Mail reports. . . ."

From the map in the article, it looks like it is going to hit Slammr's beaches and not mine. Then again the coastal current will distribute it southward. I think they call it the "Japanese Current". Don't blame me. I am not making it up.

I believe every silver lining hides a dark cloud.

Moi

If the Daily Mail reported it, it's probably lies.

[moi621 (imported)]

Choose your reference, same story -

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=gsi ... xeg1mR1O8_ ZzVKsswXuAcvFPLV6of8FNoVoJDhoD5e984KN2n2t7WVh-rY4djA&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&safe=off&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=ocean+garbage+japan&aq=0b&aqi=g-b1&aql=f&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=dc20b2672385f007&biw=1067&bih=505

You lack a sufficient degree of xenophobia. Remember the jet stream balloon bomb. Can you define, "inscrutable".

Us old farts can.

I bet New York City wishes it could dump its' garbage the same way. Drift it to Europe.

Ref.: The barge, 1987, so old, so old.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&h ... 67&bih=505

Moi

[Riverwind (imported)]

The story seems to be true as I herd Bryan Williams report on it tonight.

Now this "trash" in the water heading our way, is it Japan's responsibility to clean it up? They did nothing wrong, they did cause the tsunami to hit, they did not ask for the biggest earthquake in their history to hit there island, and with all the damage to their country should they be held accountable for this what was good stuff and now is trash.

But the good news Moi, is that its not radioactive, at least nobody has said its glowing green.

It might be one of those things where when it gets past Hawaii it heads south and ends up in that area in the pacific that collects trash. Again not to worry Moi, if it hits the coast, high or low, (slammr or you) it could be a good thing, republicans will want this cleaned up for sure, and it could create JOBS.

So you see Moi, this is not a disaster, its a WIN. It would be a WIN WIN if it hit the coast of Southern California, as I understand it they need the work.

River

[Dave (imported)]

IT will land on your beach in about thirteen months. I predict it will have a red ribbon on top.