I didn't know one could subscribe to just the crosswords! Damn, I should do that.
Oh, yeah. There was this time I was pinned down by this guy that played left tackle for varsity... Well, at least he used to before he was a vampire... Anyway, he had this really, really thick neck, and all I had was a little, little Exact-O knife ... You're not loving this story.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
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.
Zenkitty - Mar 17, 2011 8:37:01 am PDT #28841 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Ginger - Mar 17, 2011 8:39:44 am PDT #28842 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
More remarkably, Tepco warned on Wednesday: "The possibility of re-criticality is not zero".
It's not zero, but right now it doesn't look likely, and several people more expert than I are confused by that statement. This is, however, a situation that has been as extreme an example of Murphy's Law as you're ever likely to see.
Tepco and the NRC are at odds about the status of the Unit 4 pool. Tepco says it has water; the NRC says it does not. The NRC has people in Japan, but there hasn't been any indication that they're on site. I'd guess they're extrapolating from the radiation readings, but they've gone up and down wildly. Tepco has increased the number of workers on site, which indicates they really don't think the fuel is uncovered. Ultimately, that would be hard to lie about, because there would be dead workers. Tepco says it has temperature readings in all the fuel pools of 60-70 C, and the temperature would have to go up about 2,000 degrees for criticality. I hope Tepco understand that by the time this event is picked over by hundreds of nuclear engineers, no lie will stand. At the same time, the NRC's first instinct in almost any situation is "Ur doing it wrong."
Criticality wouldn't mean it would blow up, but it would become much more radioactive, probably making it impossible to keep working on the site.
If they can just get the offsite power to the site, they can start normal cooling. Apparently they're fighting earthquake debris every inch of the way.
It looks like they're now consulting with the World Association of Nuclear Operators, which would include people in Atlanta, and WANO seems to concur that it's possible that containment has not been breached on Units 1-3, which is the good news.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2011 8:41:16 am PDT #28843 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hm, I pay $40/year for the crossword subscription.
I was going to say! Although I haven't reupped this year.
-t - Mar 17, 2011 8:44:48 am PDT #28844 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm due to renew next month, so if it's changed I guess I'll find out then.
quester - Mar 17, 2011 8:47:45 am PDT #28845 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
Hm, I pay $40/year for the crossword subscription.
Um, it may have gone up and I just didn't notice. I have come out of one of my credit cards automatically. I'm pretty sure it was $12 when I first did it, but that was 10 years ago.
quester - Mar 17, 2011 8:51:15 am PDT #28846 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I just checked the website and it is $39.95 for a year.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2011 8:52:45 am PDT #28847 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thanks guys. I'm a little frustrated by the no-recourse thing, and I'll be damned if I can find a nearby urgent care facility on my insurance web site. So I need to get that all worked out.
Turns out I have no apple sauce. So I'm going to pop my delivery grocery cherry. What's good bland food for a previously violently upset stomach? Apple sauce? Toast? Water with electrolytes? What else?
Tom Scola - Mar 17, 2011 8:54:19 am PDT #28848 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Uhm, oatmeal?
ChiKat - Mar 17, 2011 8:55:18 am PDT #28849 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Rice. Bananas.
tommyrot - Mar 17, 2011 8:55:28 am PDT #28850 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, today is the first day this year where the day is longer than the night in Chicago. Today has 12 hours, one second of daylight.
But if you're further North, your day would be shorter.
Also, 3 days, 5 hours and 25 minutes to the Vernal Equinox.