Interesting, Germany is shutting down all seven of its pre-1980 nuclear power plants.
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
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.
DavidS - Mar 15, 2011 8:33:20 am PDT #28392 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DavidS - Mar 15, 2011 8:35:23 am PDT #28393 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The Maoist regime also wasn't so big on talking about what was going on in China.
That too. I remember when I was first looking up big natural disasters in the Guiness Book of World Records (which I purchased religiously as a kid) and being surprised by the 1931 floods in China being the worst with 2.5 to 3.1 million people killed. That's about four times the population of San Francisco.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2011 8:35:37 am PDT #28394 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whew. Home. Done working for now. Wow. I feel like crap.
Burrell - Mar 15, 2011 8:36:16 am PDT #28395 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The 1970 Bhola cyclone killed between 300,000 and 500,000 people in Bangladesh (then East Pakistan).
I only know of this disaster because of the Ravi Shankar concert for Bangladesh. We must have had that record when I was growing up. But I fully admit that I had absolutely no conception of the kind of destruction it must have wrought.
DavidS - Mar 15, 2011 8:37:06 am PDT #28396 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Aha! Wikipedia validates me.
"The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive natural disasters in history."
Amy - Mar 15, 2011 8:38:52 am PDT #28397 of 30001
Because books.
"The 2000s experienced some of the worst and most destructive natural disasters in history."
That's not a good thing, you know.
§ ita § - Mar 15, 2011 8:44:20 am PDT #28398 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It'll never beat 65 Billion years BC. That was a real disaster. Disasters these days don't know shit.
Burrell - Mar 15, 2011 8:47:00 am PDT #28399 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
ita just made me laugh--in the face of disaster even!
DavidS - Mar 15, 2011 8:53:04 am PDT #28400 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's not a good thing, you know.
My "aha!" was only (selfishly) concerned with proving I wasn't delusional.
Ginger - Mar 15, 2011 8:55:12 am PDT #28401 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Interesting, Germany is shutting down all seven of its pre-1980 nuclear power plants.
For a safety review in light of the Japanese accident. The worldwide nuclear industry will be going over the Japanese event with a fine-toothed comb.