Pix, I wish you could farm out your work to us!
Cass, yes, to everything you've said about Japan's engineering, preparedness, and infrastructure. Like Julia Sweeney says, "and then God says "ha!"
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Mar 11, 2011 5:30:44 pm PST #27793 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
sarameg - Mar 11, 2011 5:31:08 pm PST #27794 of 30001
Just had a protest poop.
Pretty much sums up my week, no?
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 5:34:52 pm PST #27795 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Just had a protest poop
are you referring to yourself or the cat?
or...both?
§ ita § - Mar 11, 2011 5:36:03 pm PST #27796 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."
Cass - Mar 11, 2011 5:37:17 pm PST #27797 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."
Fizzy water out of my nose.
Amy - Mar 11, 2011 5:37:47 pm PST #27798 of 30001
Because books.
Happy birthday a little late, tommy!
"Do you want to tweet about it? I'll help you compose a tweet...if you like."
Oh god, that commercial cracks me up.
sarameg - Mar 11, 2011 5:41:36 pm PST #27799 of 30001
You guys are just upping my week FAIL. MK protest poop, damnit!
Ginger - Mar 11, 2011 5:44:48 pm PST #27800 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I need to stop reading about the nuclear plant, because many people are wrong on the internet. Also, right now people are wrong on ABC. There is no China syndrome. Putting Three Mile Island and Chernobyl in the same sentence is insane. Chernobyl had no containment. Chernobyl was graphite-moderated, an early technology not used in the West. Graphite burns. Also, it was being operated by insane people who deliberately turned off the safety systems.
This is extremely minor, but irritating. CNN.com says:
Potentially dangerous problems in cooling radioactive material appear to have cropped up there, as well as at another of the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s nuclear plants. Both plants are named Fukushima Daiichi and both have nuclear reactors, but they are separate facilities.
Uh, no. There are two plants in Fukushima prefecture, Fukushima Daiichi (I), a six-unit plant, and Fukushima Daini (II) a four-unit plant. It's a little hard to tell, but it looks like Fukushima Daiichi units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power. Unit 1 is the one in the most trouble.
Cass - Mar 11, 2011 5:51:00 pm PST #27801 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
because many people are wrong on the internet
They really, really are.
There was a guy who was being histrionic-ish on BBC. I Googled his org and realized he was not News, he was Public Relations. But really I only checked because he was so wrong on the tv. A lot of people might believe him talking about China syndrome, which, yes, he said was possible in Japan...
le nubian - Mar 11, 2011 5:51:12 pm PST #27802 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Ginger,
units 3-6 were already shut down for a scheduled outage and units 1-3 were affected by the loss of power
This is consistent with the careful reporting I have read.
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