article is wrong

Who were they racing? I hope it wasn't Kenyans.

crab people

sorry to not want to read through 100 pages, but did LGBR temporarily leave or ever comment on his bad prediction?

Great show on Nova right now.

Awesome story here, husband and son of the year award should go to him:

Japanese man takes on tsunami in scuba gear and wins | Geek.com


All around badass.

I just don't understand how that's even possible. Those currents would just bash you up against stuff until you were hamburger, if you weren't smashed between two big objects first.

Dude is either Aquaman or he was lucky and his town had a slow flood vs the raging torrents in most other areas. Still cool either way.

Sounds to me like he went in after the tidal rush. How, he managed to get to two houses that were under a couple meters of water on his own, quickly, with the amount of debris, I have no idea.

Fukushima radioactive fallout nears Chernobyl levels - health - 24 March 2011 - New Scientist

everything is ok guys

wasnt there some people this thread talking about everything was being blown out of proportion or something?

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/82382.html

URGENT: Radioactivity 10,000 times the limit found from groundwater: TEPCO

A radioactive substance about 10,000 times the limit was detected from groundwater around the No. 1 reactor of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday.

A Tokyo Electric official said the radiation level is ''extremely high.''

yep - armchair nuclear scientists.

(it goes both ways though, there were also people freaking out - really it is somewhere in the middle)

What limit? If it's the vertical limit it's just a bad movie.

I'm assuming that they are talking about the 'safe allowed limit' for water.

Like they found beef to be slightly above the limit:

"The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said 510 becquerels of radioactive cesium was detected in beef from Tenei, Fukushima Prefecture, above the 500-becquerel legal limit set under the food sanitation law."

Low levels of radiation found in US milk - Yahoo! News

Activist Post: EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth About Radiation Exposure to Americans

"Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks"

What the **** language is this written in?

Inc Fukushima 50 movie in 3... 2... 1...

Starring Ken Wantanabe and Jackie Chan as the two execs that cried during the announcement that things were more out of control than they said it was.

Just because something is "nearing" something else doesn't mean its anywhere close. If I'm trying to get somewhere a mile away, and I take a step in that direction. I am nearing my destination.

Chernobyl was such a huge disaster because it the rods were wraped in carbon if i remember correctly. The carbon set fire and caused actual radioactive smoke (not steam) to enter the atmosphere.

This will never reach chernobyl levels. Is this ****ed up, yes, but it will never be even close to chernobyl.

**** **** **** :(

LGBR posted on his facebook that he quit coming to TW because he claims nobody is intelligent here anymore.

While he made claims on things which were proven wrong.

everything will be normal in a couple days. you guys are pathetic.

K, now its reaching a ****ed up level.

They are thinking about giving up the flooded areas and moving the people up to higher grounds.

awww rage quit

now i wish i didnt make him post the over/under :(

FAILURE!

Tokyo (CNN) -- A first attempt to plug a cracked concrete shaft that is leaking highly radioactive water into the ocean off Japan failed Saturday, so officials are now exploring alternatives, spokesmen for Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.

Power plant workers had been trying to fill the shaft with fresh concrete, but that did not change the amount of water coming out of the crack, the spokesmen said at a news conference that ran late into the night Saturday.

Their "plan B" is to use polymers to stop the leak, the spokesmen said. A Tokyo Electric expert will visit the site Sunday morning and decide what polymer to use before the work begins.

Workers will then break the shaft's ceiling and insert the polymer in a different spot from where they tried to place the concrete, they said.

nuke the site from orbit.......oh wait

The one situation where this is not the fix. :(

We truly need to get Star Trek tech asap.

things were being blown our of proportion... the reactions at the time would have been way over the top for what's going on now, and what was going on then was significantly less serious than whats going on now.

just because it got worse, doesn't mean the reactions were appropriate, or correct.

haha ur dum

EVERYTHING WILL BE OK, THE REACTOR WILL CONTAIN THE RADIATION, WHY ARE YOU BLOWING IT OUT OF PROPORTION, EVERYTHING IS FINE!!!!

you're right. i should instead cry about it being the end of the world and freak out about it.

thats such a better response.

OMG ANOTHER CHERNOBYL OMG OMG OMG JAPAN WILL NEVER BE USABLE AGAIN

three mile island caused mass hysteria too.

how did that one end?

oh yeah, a bunch of dumb ****s getting upset about nothing and putting back nuclear power 30 years.

gj :bigthumb:

No, you should have known it was a serious incident for Japan and not wrote it off.

This is worse than TMI.

there's a difference between knowing something is serious, and pretending something is way more serious than it is. surely you can tell the difference?

i prefer to sit back and wait for the experts to tell us what went wrong, why, and what the entire impact will be.

the rest of you are the sheep the us media placates.

bunch of alarmists. your lives must be boring.

you're point being?