oh, there you are! good to know you guys are ok. stay safe.

If it happened in the states, the survivors would be looting the stores clean a la New Orleans.

The House of the Rising Sun doesn't care about black people.

New Orleans is one of the most beautiful cities in this country

10,000 people missing from this town

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/20...buried-in-mud/

Except when it's flooded and its stores are being ransacked. :D

I can see a tragic beauty in that as well. I visited shortly after Katrina. The most hauting things were the markings on the homes that had been checked, with death counts on them. Tragic but moving in a beautifull way. Those ppl came back from disaster and did a pretty damn good job of it. I have never been to a city that is so welcome to EVERYONE without any biased. Especially after the shit they have been through.

Ah gotcha, that makes sense tho. They were already a 3rd world country. Shit only hits the fan when you're really hungry.

Japan was prepared for this technologically. Not that it makes a tragedy any less tragic. Don't get me wrong. However, eh...whatever I dont wanna keep talking about things I havent been through myself.

the abuse of the word "tragic" makes me slightly impatient. tragedy is a species of theatre, not the human suffering it depicts. of course with use the thing got backwards, but it still should keep the flavor of sophocles or corneille or even arthur miller.

here a few handy synonyms for everyone's continuous re-reporting of the news:

catastrophe / catastrophic
calamity / calamitous
disaster / disastrous
cataclysm / cataclysmic

thank you.

Right, then again, non of this is really unnatural. It is all natural.

We should just relax and enjoy the show.

recommendies if you live on the ring of fire:

nterested in your own backyard? My house would survive about an 8, though only about 1/2 would still be standing. I live on basalt with an overlay of highly cemented volcanic ash, it has been stable for, get this 22 million years!

The kitchen and living room is partially supported on pilings, which will probably either shear or slide fail. so there goes the sw 1/4 of the house. Bedrooms, garage and offices are all on double thick shear protected concrete foundations set on the bedrock.

No gas in my neighborhood, so no fires. Check your local gas co for transmission lines, there are some 24" and 36" petroleum pipelines (Williams Gas Co) and also high pressure natural gas lines, some as large as 12" within 5 miles of my house (all running near or through residential areas, by the way)

The houses below me on the flatlands maybe only a 6 (soils will "quick" and earthen dams very likely will fail.)

There's a big neighborhood about 5 miles away that shows evidence of previous large landslides ( basalt columns that are oriented everywhich way, and a "dish shaped" hillside with large amounts of debris slides at it's base) also there are tons of springs on this hill, too, which makes it even worse.....maybe 5 or 6 thousand people live in that area.

So, the conclusion is check your own area, you don't have to live in a dangerous zone. And, without any geologic activity, your property values are probably OK to sell and move to a safer spot

RIP JAPAN

Officially the worst nuke crisis since Chernobyl. I guess those light water reactors aren't infallible after all. 20-25 mile radius around the plant is now in danger. Reactor #4 is now on fire (although #4 successfully shut down after the quake, so I'm not sure if the fire will change anything). 400 millisieverts of radiation confirmed in the area, enough to potentially kill white blood cells or cause infertility. 1,000 mSv/h induces nausea. 2,000-5,000 causes death.

maybe its just my cynical nature but the way the power company keeps saying that everything is under control and that things are going to be alright doesn't fill me with confidence.

if things keep going the way they are in japan my boyhood dreams of a real life godzilla may actually come true!

Well, they're evacuating all the plant workers. If there are no personnel on-site at the plant... I think it's pretty safe to say that the fuel rods will continue to melt down. And fires are the best way to spew radiation into the atmosphere.

OF all places in the world, Japan is BEST equipped for alternative/non-atomic energy sources... I think this should be a lesson to the rest of the world that nuclear power isn't infallible. Even modern light water reactors.

its kinda funny (gallows humor) that they are telling people within a 30km radius to remain indoors in the wake of a tsunami and a 9.0 earthquake that destroyed so much.

I've been following these events mainly via good old fashioned TV (well, cable) - BBC, CNN International and CNN USA:

BBC
"The BBC has learned that the massive waves could reach the West Coast of the United States within four hours. A tsunami alert has been issued by the U.S. government, as well as countries from Mexico to Chile".

CNN International
"The U.S. state of Hawaii is in state of maximum alert as the tsunami approaches! We have a team of seven thousand reporters covering all the angles of this story! We go beyond borders. We're ending slavery. We're the shit. You're at the International Desk; I'm Hala Gorani, I'm an ice queen, and there's nothing you can do about it".

CNN USA
"WE'RE FUCKED! THE WAVE IS COMING! WE'RE GONNA GET FUCKED IN THE ASS! WE'RE FUCKED!! YAAAARRRRGGHHHHH!!!!"

Conspiracy nets are discussing the 600,000 expired fuel rods stored on site - in some cases ON TOP OF THE REACTORS THAT EXPLODED -

you just cant help it can you

http://ukinjapan.fco.gov.uk/en/news/...s&id=566811882

a somewhat reassuring read.

Anyhow, I think the media is way too focused on radiation levels in Tokyo. We will be fine. This is nothing compared to what people in the tsunami affected areas are going through.

Reports of food shortages in Tokyo are exagerated as well. It's a bit hard to come by convenience store pasteries and bottled water. So what?
Not worthy of anything but local news.
I wish they would focus on the real problem.

Another earthquake hit japan??????????????????????



also. This question is mainly aimed at tesla. but This dood at the bar over the weekend told me it was that one seismic weapon that started this.

I'm glad no tsunami from this one.

I haven't read up on it, but the technology of scalar elctromagnetics is supposed to be responsible, based on the real Tesla's work in his lab in Greenwich Village, where he set up a resonance pattern that started to shake the whole neighborhood. There is a guy named Thomas Bearden who promotes this theory. KW Jeter wrote a steampunk book about this idea, some mad scientist in Victorian england starts a resonance with the goal to shake the world apart. Its based on the idea most people know about that when soldiers cross a bridge they have to walk out of goose step or the bridge might shake apart. But what is up with this blue glow? Did the Terminator drop into our time zone?

http://www.infowars.com/new-earthqua...ue-light-show/

Weird....

Do you know much about ancient astronaut theory tesla? or give it any weight? They say aliens have to do with major disasters throughout mankinds history, and there is evidence (according to such theory). Loose evidence.

I'm familiar with Jacques Vallee's writings that showed how UFO sightings (also known as angel sightings) often accompany disasters.

Some of the ancient engravings that are supposed to be men in space suits actually look more like men with mushrooms sticking out of their heads to me.

Tesla, science isn't the Da Vinci code - if someone can develop something its a sure bet someone else will soon enough or already has. If Nikola Tesla made some massive breakthrough we'd have been living with a long time ago.

he would have made more progress if he didn't have to stop the PROTOTYPE with a fucking hammer.

just sayin'.

now, you folks go back to discussing ancient astronauts while I keep working on this here death-ray.

Well, we are living with Tesla's massive breakthrough. Its called AC, alternating current. Just about every electrical device on the grid on the planet is AC, which before then Edison and all establishment types said was impossible. He also developed radio communication, later taken by Marconi; this was also the basis of remote control and wireless. He probably would have developed free electricity but JP Morgan shut him down and without funds, there isn't much research.

If you're referring specifically to a technology that related to earthquakes, you should research scalar electromagetics. Its arcane but fully legitimate. I believe it is the kind of technology, like antigravity, that is simply too dangerous to research in a gravity well. There are also a lot of people who say HAARP is an extension of this work.

And the fact is his research was confiscated by the FBI after he died. At least they didn't put him in jail like they did Dr Reich.

speaking of HAARP -- massive bottlenose dolphin wash-up currently underway.

military coverup or does this coincide with the new UUUUUU release?

you decide.

if i was the least bit superstitious all these natural disasters would have my left eyebrow raised to the ceiling. even so, what the hell is going on in this world?

I think one thing is the Pacific Rim is becoming more active, a natural event. There is also the phenomena of the magnetic poles shifting, and from my reading it seems this happens very quickly in our perceptual ability, not geological time.

I really don't see any 'hand' in these natural events. But the Gulf oil spill was not a natural event, the nuclear plant catastrophe is not a natural event, fucking Chinese industrial toxic waste being added to the water and food supply is not a natural event. SO much of the 'disaster' part of these events are because poor people live in cardboard houses in the most succeptible areas - or in Japan, people conveniently ignored the signs left by previous residents hundreds of years earlier warning of tsunami. ONe of my coworkers flew to Japan last friday. We think he's insane, but he has family there.

Radiation rates are growing higher in the US

http://enenews.com/strawberries-mush...tive-particles

I wonder when the first mutant superpowers will appear!

my bright side is so bright it glows in the dark.

shake it, shake it. shake it, shakei t. shake it like a polaroid picturaaawrrrrr

That's fucking terrible. The terror that must be racing through the people's minds.

Just a reminder, there are human caused earthquakes

"Fracking has turned vast swaths of Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Louisiana, and other states into industrial wastelands. Arkansas had to suspend fracking last month when it was suspected of setting off a series of small earthquakes."
http://www.counterpunch.org/stephens04192011.html