Northern Japan Rocked By Trio Of Disasters!

[Aesop Rocks]

Ugh.

 

[Kane52630]

‎"I'm just a trial lawyer, but I know that radiation comes across the ocean."

Why she has a show is beyond me.

 

[enterthemadness]

‎"I'm just a trial lawyer, but I know that radiation comes across the ocean."

Why she has a show is beyond me.

Well....it does technically go across the Ocean if it heads over here. The wind brings it though. Probably worded it wrong.

 

[Fading]

‎"I'm just a trial lawyer, but I know that radiation comes across the ocean."

Why she has a show is beyond me.

Why do half the ppl who have news shows have them? Most of the time they'd rather report opinions and their own personal laundry rather than the news. It's part of the reason why I get burnt out on the news so fast and quit watching for awhile.

Case in point, I was turning to MSNBC for coverage on this and Libya. I have no clue who Lawrence O'Donnell is, but his show happened to be on in the background while I was playing on my DS. He proceeds to blast Glen Beck for his comments on the Tsunami being a sign of end time (which I agree with blasting Beck over), and then hypocritically turns around and mocks Chritianity with the next sentence. I listen on as he basically calls any bible reading Christian half brain dead, and the bible fiction. Stuff like that makes watching the news uncomfortable, and I think there's enough tragedy and sadness going on already without the need to tack on additional drama.

I'm fine with him having that belief as it's his right, but 9,000+ ppl are dead and another 9,000+ missing, and we're embroiled in another mid east crisis. Is this really the time to, night after night, make the focus his own personal fued with Glen Beck (who most ppl know is nutty anyways), and start a religious fued? To many news stations are more worried about attention grabbing news, true or not, and controversy to get viewers than they are about actually reporting the news. (Ok, got that rant out of my system lol, carry on)

 

[Anita18]

Well....it does technically go across the Ocean if it heads over here. The wind brings it though. Probably worded it wrong.

Yes but we're not gonna die. We probably won't even be affected at all.

 

[Kelly]

Why do half the ppl who have news shows have them? Most of the time they'd rather report opinions and their own personal laundry rather than the news. It's part of the reason why I get burnt out on the news so fast and quit watching for awhile.

Case in point, I was turning to MSNBC for coverage on this and Libya. I have no clue who Lawrence O'Donnell is, but his show happened to be on in the background while I was playing on my DS. He proceeds to blast Glen Beck for his comments on the Tsunami being a sign of end time (which I agree with blasting Beck over), and then hypocritically turns around and mocks Chritianity with the next sentence. I listen on as he basically calls any bible reading Christian half brain dead, and the bible fiction. Stuff like that makes watching the news uncomfortable, and I think there's enough tragedy and sadness going on already without the need to tack on additional drama.

I'm fine with him having that belief as it's his right, but 9,000+ ppl are dead and another 9,000+ missing, and we're embroiled in another mid east crisis. Is this really the time to, night after night, make the focus his own personal fued with Glen Beck (who most ppl know is nutty anyways), and start a religious fued? To many news stations are more worried about attention grabbing news, true or not, and controversy to get viewers than they are about actually reporting the news. (Ok, got that rant out of my system lol, carry on)

Most of those shows are not "reporting" on the news.....that is the news.....these shows are commentating on the news. You make the choice of whether you agree with it or not....

 

[SuperFerret]

Yes but we're not gonna die. We probably won't even be affected at all.

Yep. This is why we have experts. It's not enough knowing that radiation does travel across the ocean (it does), you need to be able to understand why and how it does (and that's where the "It's not going to kill and/or horribly mutate Californians" part comes from).




People in Washington and Oregon, however, will be horribly mutated.

 

[Paradoxium]

Technically speaking radioactive isotopes (Xenon 133) from Fukushima is already spreading through most of America. Approximately 2/3rd of America is covered by it. But the real issue is health effects and the amount. It's negligible - at least for now anyways.

 

[SuperFerret]

As long as we're speaking about technicalities, technically speaking, there is no harmful radiation unless you narrow your viewpoint.

 

[Spider-X]

Nancy Grace's face infuriates me.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Nancy Grace is a disgusting human-being. She once harassed a grieving mother about her missing son so much (basically accusing her of murdering him without evidence) that the mom killed herself the next day. She is a self-righteous piece of crap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace#Suicide_of_interviewee_Melinda_Duckett

 

[Fading]

Most of those shows are not "reporting" on the news.....that is the news.....these shows are commentating on the news. You make the choice of whether you agree with it or not....

Ok, I get that there are shows designed around the hosts opinion, and maybe I came off a bit strong and didn't word it right. I guess I'm saying that I have no problem with bringing on experts, and then the host talking with them and giving their opinions on the events. However there needs to be professionalism as well. There's a difference inbetween talking about the Japan, and while keeping a respectful tone, questioning the maker's of the nuclear reactor's safety standards, and say Beck's saying it was a sign of the end of the world. Or covering a middle east war, and using it, and the stations air time as a base to slam Islam.

I guess it just annoys me when hosts of shows on news channels one second talk about a huge tragedy, and then slip in a personal jab towards an entire people or religion. Or how they, or on the scene reporters, jab at the victims. Like one reporter I saw asking a clearly stunned Japanese man how he felt about the bodies on the ground. There's a certain level of professionalism you should take. Giving an opinion on a situation is one thing, airing your personal laundry or fued, or using a tragedy to launch a verbal insult against a group of ppl just makes watching the news uncomfortable. Atleast that's all IMO. Anyway that's all I meant, didn't mean all opinions on the news should be left out.

 

[zanos]

Yeah the suits don't actually do that much. The only thing that will protect them is lead and you can't move, much less work, in a full-body lead suit.

I feel bad for all of them.

Precisely, if we could protect ourselves from close exposure to extreme radiation then Spock would never have needed to sacrifice himself to save the Enterprise. Facts never lie.

 

[Marx]

I cannot stand Nancy Grace. She just comes off as a big phony. (Not to mention incredibly self-righteous and arrogant.)

 

[Kelly]

I'm a southerner and her southern accent is irritating as hell....


But, if you can get past who she is.....I've read her book, she has a damn interesting back story.

 

[Paradoxium]

Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis

Gov't asks people within 20-30 km of nuke plant to leave voluntarily

When you have a hush hush government trying to save face, saying stuff like this, you know it's not good.

 

[Raiden]

Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis

Gov't asks people within 20-30 km of nuke plant to leave voluntarily

When you have a hush hush government trying to save face, saying stuff like this, you know it's not good.

I thought with the new power cord reconnected and tons of seawater dumped on the nuclear power plants, the worst might be over. It seems like terrible things keep happening.

 

[The Question]

I'm selling some of my autographed nerd-swag on ebay to raise money for Japan:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110666828535#ht_500wt_1156

Get biddin'!

 

[Kelly]

I thought with the new power cord reconnected and tons of seawater dumped on the nuclear power plants, the worst might be over. It seems like terrible things keep happening.

The salt in the seawater is now eroding the metal...

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Damn I really hope it gets better. It seems all the info on what is going on in Japan has dropped off recently, with Libya moving to the foreground.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

CNN is reporting that another 6.5 just hit Japan, and they are bracing for another tsunami. This could be very bad.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

CNN is reporting that another 6.5 just hit Japan, and they are bracing for another tsunami. This could be very bad.

It wasn't. The tsunami was about 1.5 feet. They were understandably erring on the side of caution though.

 

[Alex The Great]

You'd be surprised what a 1.5 Foot Tsunami could do. Still pretty powerful. Would knock us off our asses if we were standing on the beach

 

[Anita18]

You'd be surprised what a 1.5 Foot Tsunami could do. Still pretty powerful. Would knock us off our asses if we were standing on the beach

3-4 inches of fast-moving water would knock down someone. 1.5 feet can take away a car.

 

[Anita18]

This is completely nuts:



I think also what's frightening about real-life tsunamis, compared to the completely overblown stuff in that POS movie 2012, is that isn't just a 20-story giant wave coming at you. It starts innocently enough like a bathtub overflowing....and then it KEEPS COMING and you see the cars start to float away and the buildings breaking off their foundations. And then everything is just gone.