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    URGENT: NUCLEAR WARNING - Fukushima Unit 4 Petition

    in Everything Else Message Board

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    Honestly, man... I'm not sure you REALLY understand what a hot-zone JP is for earthquakes...

     

     

    M 4.7 Earthquake

    36km E of Oarai, Japan
    8 hours ago – U.S. Geological Survey

    An earthquake with magnitude 4.7 occurred near Mito, Honshu, Japan at 20:25:29.90 UTC on Jan 27, 2014 

     

     

     

    Saying you know it and then following up with "a 95% chance of an earthquake there in the next 3 years" kind of makes me think that you're getting your information mostly from opinions and not hard data. And I was just trying to find something that would say that it happens A LOT more often than you've suggested...

     

    Also, you can be offended by my wording; I don't mind. I was just trying to let you know so you wouldn't have a haemmorhage about... reality? You'd be really disappointed if you'd gone on hoping for a three-year, earthquake-free, break for Japan, right? I don't know how I would have been being personal about it though... I don't even know you, mate. Plus, I wouldn't even imagine Japanese people to spend their time hoping for something like that, when they know what the local geology is like.

     

    But you are right about my misreading the point of citing opinion polls and not facts. You seem so zealous about this as something we all need to be worried about that I just connected the two as information you were using to bolster your case. My bad. But that very well does negate a fair amount of what I said in turn, as you weren't citing that stuff as fact.

     

    On the other hand, I think you mistook my anecdote about going to JP and eating seafood a bit too seriously. I simply wanted to imply that it wasn't so bad that everything was inherently unsafe. Naturally, you'd expect with a nuclear disaster, some increase in cancer rates, but it isn't so bad that suddenly all of JP is and soon the rest of us associated with Pacific life will come to our knees with the compounded radiation. From all I've heard about the situation everything from radiation measurements to cancer rates have all stayed below the lines drawn by Chernobyl and the world is still standing and churning well on after that.

     

    As for all your questions, I can only say that just because I've insinuated that you, as a fourteen year-old (if your account accurately states your age), PROBABLY don't know all the nuance intricacies of nuclear sciences, it doesn't mean my challenge also comes with some chip on MY shoulder saying I am the knowledge keeper. I certainly don't have the answers, and I don't imagine that you do either, however much you seem to thing you do. But for someone who would also claim to not be an expert, you sure seem adamant about how unsafe all forms of nuclear energy are. I mean... correct me if I'm wrong, someone, but isn't the whole world powered by nuclear-solar energy... and isn't fusion-power the future of humanity? Kiddo, there are LOTS of things even experts don't know about nuclear energy. That's why people still study it. You literally cannot be so sure because you're simply not a good enough authority on the subject. Is that critical enough for you, or am I also guilty of jumping to too many excessive conclusions?

     

    Just a question, but do you ever read anything that DOESN'T support your views? There's a lot of interesting stuff out there.

    URGENT: NUCLEAR WARNING - Fukushima Unit 4 Petition

    in Everything Else Message Board

    Posted

    Also "PraiseMorph" you probably shouldn't speak out of your ass on behalf of multiple countries and their view on nearby life-threatening catastrophes:

    Indeed, as the Business Times Singapore warned, the foreign media are not alone in being alarmed by the Abe administration’s unwillingness to get a grip on Fukushima Daiichi. Japan’s neighbouring states and civil societies also evince increasing concern. South Korea’s Asiana Airlines announced on August 21 that, as of October, because of Fukushima Daiichi, they would discontinue charter flights to Fukushima City.8 The situation is in fact so grave in South Korean eyes that the August 8 minutes of the Bank of Korea’s 15th Monetary Policy Board meeting expressed concern that further mishandling of Fukushima Daiichi could make it a “black swan” in the larger context of economic uncertainty confronting the global financial economy in the fall.9 And results from the South Korean Gallup agency poll over the three days ending August 29 indicated that 78% of Koreans believe their country is already being impacted by radiation from Fukushima Daiichi. Moreover, whereas 70% of South Koreans regard New Zealand and Australian food as safe, and 75% see South Korean domestic food as safe, an astounding 90% now deem Japanese food products as unsafe.10

    As for China, on August 21 the state officially expressed “shock” over the situation, with its Foreign Ministry calling for Japan to “take effective steps to put an end to the negative impact of the after-effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident.”11 But the government was also careful to declare domestically that the Chinese State Oceanic Administration’s survey results show radiation flows (including Cesium 134) from Fukushima Daiichi into the aquatic environment but not into areas under Chinese jurisdiction. They also stressed they were doing follow-up surveys of the marine environment, and have stated they reserve the right to request entry into waters near Daiichi to conduct to assess the impact the ongoing leaks were having on the ocean.12 While the official response has been measured, at the popular level – as expressed on Chinese twitter – there is what appears to be a rising magma of outrage.

     

    Sorry to burst your bubble, mate, but Japan is an earthquake hotspot and has always been for as long as there have been islands for Japanese and pre-Japanese cultures to be there. Given the slow rate of geologic changes throughout the history of the planet, it will probably remain that way for as long as you can even imagine, and will probably only be different for people living in a future where our current world-maps are more ancient than OUR most ancient human artefacts.

     

    Also, there's probably more truth in the statement that the US is freaking out because they've not much else to worry about simply because most of us are NOT nuclear physicists. For one, I'd be a lot more sceptical about those bits you shared about South Korea and China's opinions on the matter; for one, 90% of SK-citizens found JP sourced food to be unsafe? Are you insinuating that 90% of South Koreans are adequate nuclear physicists, toxicologists, or anything specifically related to the subject of irradiated foodstuffs? Now, I've never been to SK, but for one, I know a fair amount of people from there and have tried to learn a thing or two about their culture and society. With only two major cities in the country, I find it LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE for such a high statistic to be of any relevance to anything. Would you give a shit if a stat said that 100% of rednecks say that black people aren't people? What could make you think that a SK denizen from the more rural portions of the country knows much of anything on the subject off-handedly? And I've been to JP SINCE the Fukushima event, and reality isn't in shambles there. People still eat seafood like it's nobody's business, and there weren't mutants crawling out of the sewers trying to exact their revenge on an impotent Abe government. In fact, I pretty much ate nothing BUT seafood, and I'm not dead yet from the untold amounts of radioactive waste now undoubtedly coursing through my entire system. Plus, when AU is busy selling their land to the Chinese because they've not been able to manage their agricultural businesses out there properly, what's to say that the food from there is any better? And it was only last year that there was that toxic baby-formula coming out of NZ. What do any of us know just from reading a few articles on the web. Sure you may think you've read a lot more than most people, but still, those ONLY represent someone else's opinion. Read some scientific theses and wow us all with your supreme grasp on all the major points of nuclear studies beforehand next time, please, before just citing a few percentages of commoner opinions and calling it evidence.

     

    As for China... just look up a little about both their history with JP and how foreign relations have gone between the two nations over the centuries, AND look up their history with environmental concerns. You'll not be able to take any of what you quoted seriously if you only knew. I could expand, but seriously, there's no point (zero) in taking official Chinese statements about environmental concerns, ESPECIALLY if it's directed towards Japan. Seriously.

     

    Regarding OUR side of the pond, just because there are known increases in radiation along the coasts, doesn't mean that it's due to Fukushima. If you're trying to talk about serious science, you should know that correlation does not mean causation. Remember, literally EVERYTHING is radioactive. Put a Geiger counter next to a rock you found in your yard, it will still make noise. Put it to a banana peel and it will beep harder. Who knows why or what is causing radiation to increase anywhere. Maybe climate change issues make our planet's surface more susceptible to radiation bombardment from the entire cosmos around our thin-ass atmosphere. Maybe a lot of composting hippies have started burying banana peels on the beaches to promote healthy palm growth. Whatever the case is, we just don't know.

     

    I wouldn't be so quick to accuse folk of "speak[ing] out of your ass" when citing material that could just as easily be others speaking out of THEIR arses.

    $35 MAE - PO They've Shot Flanigan

    in Sale/Trade/Wants

    Posted

    If weren't so broke right now, I would. I've got $20 and that's it, so I probably shouldn't. Sign me up for either the C&C LP or the other BN LP that are within the $75 range; I like a good surprise, so you choose which one (assuming no one's put their names down already).

    Free: I will "sponsor" a EU vinyl buyer

    in Sale/Trade/Wants

    Posted

    I've had people message me with intentions of buying one record in the now, and coming back later on to pick up others. This sort of tactic worked beautifully for us since they saved on shipping, and I saved on packing supplies (and I generally use a lot compared to what I see coming in to me).

    If you know the other person well enough to trust them, or are just a naively trusting person, I can say that this is a pretty good way to save money; whether you do it how I did it (just out of your personal stash) or as OP is suggesting, I recommend it.

    Best Instrumental "Post-Rock" Bands

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

    Posted

    Adai

    Aeronautix

    Braveyoung

    The Bulletproof Tiger

    Caspian

    Chiaroscuro

    Crippled Black Phoenix

    Deadhorse

    Drewsif Stalin's Musical Endeavors

    Ef

    Eluvium

    Enemies

    Explosions In The Sky

    Fly Pan Am

    Fura

    Giants

    God Is An Astronaut

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor

    Grails

    Lymbyc Systym

    Maserati

    Mogwai

    Mudy On The ð”Ó

    Neil On Impression

    Pelican

    Post Harbor

    Red Sparowes

    A Silver Mt. Zion

    Stubborn Tiny Lights Vs. Clustering Darkness Forever OK?

    This Will Destroy You

    Time.Space.Repeat.

    tornaHdo

    Tortoise

    World's End Girlfriend

    Records FS: Need help pricing

    in Sale/Trade/Wants

    Posted

    sworph, just noticed your WTB in your signature. just so you know, only here, hear II got pressed unfortunately, not the I and III one...

    I don't know if you're interested, but Here, Hear I did get a mini-CD pressing. /100

    It's not vinyl, but it does exist.

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