8.9 earthquake in Japan

[sailordad]

did you see the video of that explosion
the shock wave was most impressive 

[mullet]

Yea, I'd hate to be downwind.

[Jesse]

Yea, I'd hate to be downwind.

Yeah thats no good. The wind could spread that stuff hundreds of miles.

[ricktrojanowski]

Pat and Sailor...  I agree 100% about people living in these areas of bad natural happenings - Tsunami hits, people morn the losses, people rebuyild and come up with "early warning systems" to give them some sort of "preparation" for then next eventuallity...  I think "if shit like this keeps happening, why don't you MOVE!!!???"

But then again...  where would they move to?

The economic ramefications of entire nations of people looking for a "new home" are massive!  There's a lot of countries on this planet that have the spacial capacity to allow for massive population increases - but the infrastructures just aren't there and the cost of putting them in place (at current level of capilism/commercialism) are astronomical!!  

On a topic more related to the original post -

There's a guy in the U.S. who's job for the last 35 years has been to go into work every day, fire a laser at a bank of reflectors on the moon and wait for the laser to come back to him.

Every day...  go to work...  shoot laser...  wait for it to come back...  record the details.

After 35 years of doing this, he's able to compare the records from today against the 35 year old ones and he's now able to say that the beam takes 2 seconds more to come back now than it did when he first started doing it.  The moon is moving further away from the planet Earth.  

Mankind as a species has been damming up rivers and trying to control the natural run of things.  The tides are controlled by the moon's gravitational pull on the water - maybe our stockpiling of rivers behind massive concrete walls has, over time, been affecting the equilibrium betwen the Earth and moon's gravitational relationship...

35 years of that.  I wonder why our taxes are so high

[HatchA]

35 years of that.  I wonder why our taxes are so high

LMAO!!!     

[Jesse]

35 years of that.  I wonder why our taxes are so high
[/quote] No kidding.   I need a job like that . Might get boring though.              How was your day?------- Just the usual------- shot a laser at the moon and watched judge judy---------- The laser is taking longer to bounce back lately -----so I'm getting overtime pay.

[Elktracker]

Its hard to say what will happen when a natural disaster like this accurs in my area, I live about 60 seconds from the beach in Netarts Oregon and I know a tsunami or earth quake is going to happen eventually but all I can do is be as prepared as possible when it does. Luckily there is lots of high grounds within minutes of me and I have accumulated over the last couple years survival totes with 20lb of rice 20 lb of dried beens medical gear, wool blankets and emergency blankets cases of bottled water powdered milk, flash lights batteries, wind up radio, canned and dehidrated foods of different types and the list goes on and on. The totes weighs about 100lb each or more and I will have to be home to get them if something happens so that is a downside. My wife and I both have kits in our cars incase we have to head for the hill without notice or time. When it does happen I hope we are well enough prepared and equiped to survive. Hate to see what happened in Japan and other coastal communitys. Ill be ready in 2012

[jamie]

ive read every book available on the subject of pre history, deluge, mayans, sumerian text. mankind is always predicting its end. not exactly happy with the state of affairs today and changes need to be made , but remember that in the dark ages the world was coming to an end, world war 1 and 2 were the end, its the perpetual cycle of doom and gloom. there is also a big question mark with the mayan calendar. the math isnt correct. important thing to do is to remember it could all end tomorrow so live love laugh. peace

p.s. eddie we are all down wind. the stock of spent bars from the reactors are sitting in a cooling pool right at the reactor site. unlike the u.s. where we bury the spent rods in mountains, japan stockpiles theirs in these pools. that place is a time bomb. 6 reactors and 20 years of spent rods waiting to go boom. the prevailing winds bring it right to us. most amazing thing is we just hired japan to help bring up the new reactors we are developing in the u.s..

have a great day guys. 

[Pappy]

I have some things in my life to worry about ,but the end ant one of them,I try to be prepaired in case of an emergence, but worried I am not. If it all ended today it's been a good run and a lot
of fun. I sure feel for them folks but when you choose to live in places like that you can expect at some point it's going to happen.
   Pappy

[Autumnbear]

I second that Pappy. Disasters happen and they suck when they do, but it is out of my hand so I accept that and change what I can.

[ricktrojanowski]

I think the Mayan  guy writing the calendar probably got tired of writing so many future calendars, and just decided  "2012 good enough" and stopped. Now people are freaking out over his lack of work ethic. 

[JW_Halverson]

The Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world on my 50th birthday.  Apparently my friends are planning quite literally THE PARTY TO END ALL PARTIES!

If you wish to survive this cataclysm, send me your name and address on the back of a $20 bill for consideration. 

[Pappy]

Rick/JW  been a long week and I needed that. Nothing has really changed has it
Rick you still can't find good help.
   Pappy

[toomanyknots]

Probably shouldn't go outside too much for a couple weeks people if ya live in north america, at least till all these radioactive plumes (I think there is like 4 or 5 or so) pass by as much as they are going to.

"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/science/17plume.html?_r=1"

They say it's not enough to cause cancer, they also said it was ok for all those 911 responders to breath in all that crap and now they are all dieing of all kinds of lung and brain cancer. They said chernobyl wasn't that bad at first either, and the death toll in still rising since it blew up in 86 and will continue to for however long the halflife is of all those radioactive particles like cesium. Map of chernobyl plume:



Now we got like 4 or 5 plumes from 4 or 5 reactors, not to mention the random fires and white smoke, if they are burning fuel rods, then they are emitting radiation as well. I don't know much but what the "experts" are saying is that the start of the radioactive plumes will hit the west coast friday, and that it will be too little to hurt. I know that it is said that ONE dust particle contaminated with plutonium (which is a very good amount worse than uranium, which was what chernobyl used) if inhaled by a dog, will kill it in one day. Fortunately for humanity and the japanese people, there happens to be plutonium used at one of the reactors in trouble. I have been following this for a while and it just doesn't look good at all. The best thing I have read so far is that the tokyo electric company is trying to get a power line up to supply the cooling systems with power, so they can start cooling all these overheating reactors down and get them under control. I would just like let all primitive archer members know that if your wife is pregnet or any family members have any critical health conditions, that this stuff is coming here in a couple days. Better to be over safe than sorry I figure.