Wild monkey love or tender Sarah McLachlan love?
Xander ,'Him'
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.
Liese S. - Mar 13, 2011 4:00:27 pm PDT #28132 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Hil R. - Mar 13, 2011 4:02:07 pm PDT #28133 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Six terrifying ways crows are smarter than you think: [link]
Strix - Mar 13, 2011 4:05:43 pm PDT #28134 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
YOU CAN DO IT, KRISTIN!
I have officially entered the Land of Questionable Grading: the 50 3 to 5 page essay portfolios I collected Thursday and Friday will get read, and then get a letter grade. I will add comments later this week. Otherwise, they will not get graded and entered by the midnight deadline.
I'M GOIN BACK IN!! COVER ME!!
::ducks and runs back into the line of fire::
Cass - Mar 13, 2011 4:08:46 pm PDT #28135 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.
One day, I really hope to see Liese's place. And Liese.
smonster - Mar 13, 2011 4:15:57 pm PDT #28136 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Me too, Cass.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2011 4:20:14 pm PDT #28137 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, I was just going to say how much I love Liese's house.
Ginger - Mar 13, 2011 4:23:25 pm PDT #28138 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm beginning to see some exposure numbers. The highest recorded radiation level at the Fukushima Daiichi site was 155.7 millirem at 1:52 p.m. March 13 and exposure was down to 4.4 millirem by evening in Japan. For perspective, the typical X-ray is 10 mrems per shot and you'll get 2-5 mrems on a round trip cross-country flight. The average annual exposure from natural sources is 300 mrem. In the U.S., the occupational limit is 5,000 mrem, but the average is more like 150. Radiation effects are cumulative, but there is debate about the whether getting the exposure in a short period of time is more damaging.
The exposure at the plant boundary would be considerably less, since many of the isotopes involved have half-lives measured in seconds.
In short, not much radiation. They haven't said, but I suppose some workers may have used up a good chunk of their annual limit.
The evacuation area was very conservative, mostly, I'd guess, to have options to do more venting. Checking people as they leave the area is textbook, because you don't want civilians wandering around with hot particles (known as zoomies in the trade) on their shoe or something. One of the Russians many sins at Chernobyl was not doing this.
They lost part of the cooling system in Unit 3 and dumped seawater and boron on it too. It's a little more iffy.
Several news reports I've seen seem to think that the seawater and boron injection is something they're making up as they go along, but that's textbook "if all else fails" and they've drilled on it. It's one reason nukes are located by large bodies of water.
Obviously the situation is fluid and I would never say never, but it looks like we can go back to the real problems, the tens of thousands of people without homes, jobs, food or clean water.
shrift - Mar 13, 2011 4:26:59 pm PDT #28139 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Curry om nom nom. Glad it tastes really good, because I'll be eating it for at least the next 3 days.
sumi - Mar 13, 2011 4:29:25 pm PDT #28140 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Liese, your kitchen is gawjus!
meara - Mar 13, 2011 4:37:49 pm PDT #28141 of 30001
Ginger, I gotta say, thank you for what you've been posting here--it's helped me keep much calmer with everyone on FB and the news all "OMG! RADIATION! NUCLEAR MELTDOWN! ZOMG IT"S GOING TO GET US!"