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Merged 8.8 quake in Sendai, Japan

Father Dagon said:
Regarding the protests and shut-downs in Germany, one must take this into consideration:

It might sound like a bad joke, but germans are in general thorough. You can seldom get a simple explanation of what you need to know, but you'll get a small lecture. In the 80s or 90s free condoms was to be handed out. But some official had to stamp them with the stamp of approval, punching holes trough every condom, rendering them useless.
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Any link to back this ridiculous story up?

And the worst thing you can be in Germany is a nazi. Therefore the most "progressive" persons proves ther non-naziness by doing the exact opposite of what the nazis did in every imaginable and non-imaginable way. And since they had a nuclear program, then it's anti-nazi to be against nuclear power. And that explains why they can't make simple transfers of nuclear waste from A to B in Germany without raising a small civil war.
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The strong anti-nuclear power stance of the Germans has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with a perceived who-can-be-the-most-anti-Nazi contest. It has to do with a dislike of risk-taking, a love for nature and an intelligent assessment of the real risks involved with nuclear power generation, unlike superficial techno-optimists like French and Americans. Germans realize that nuclear technology is box-of-pandora stuff.
 
9/11-investigator said:
The strong anti-nuclear power stance of the Germans has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with a perceived who-can-be-the-most-anti-Nazi contest. It has to do with a dislike of risk-taking, a love for nature and an intelligent assessment of the real risks involved with nuclear power generation, unlike superficial techno-optimists like French and Americans. Germans realize that nuclear technology is box-of-pandora stuff.
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Why am I not surprised that you display as much skeptical thought regarding nuclear power as you do with everything else ?

Excluding Chernobyl, how many deaths have been related to nuclear energy ?
 
Rolfe said:
I have a great deal of difficulty believing this. Does Snopes have anything to say about it?

Rolfe.
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9/11-investigator said:
Any link to back this ridiculous story up?
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Read about it in some magazine ca 15 years ago.

But given the facts that german cars are really good and that the local news hardly can make reports about troubles with the commuter buses without making "Nie wieder!"-remarks, then it would be no surprise for me if it turn outs to be true.
9/11-investigator said:
The strong anti-nuclear power stance of the Germans has nothing, I repeat nothing to do with a perceived who-can-be-the-most-anti-Nazi contest. It has to do with a dislike of risk-taking, a love for nature and an intelligent assessment of the real risks involved with nuclear power generation, unlike superficial techno-optimists like French and Americans. Germans realize that nuclear technology is box-of-pandora stuff.
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Do you know any germans? I've got a friend who's mother is german and he visits Germany from time to time and he follows the german tv channels. So he's both an insider and an outsider.

And if the protesters made a cool risk-analysis, then they would've realized that delaying the waste transports increases the risks. Protests per se can I respect, but not those who makes matter worse. So given the almost-civil wars, the best explanation I see is that they're taking "progressiveness" to the extreme. Not in a explicitly anti-nazi way, but it's part of the package deal.
 
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Father Dagon said:
Read about it in some magazine ca 15 years ago.
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Any magazine in particular? Maybe this magazine: http://www.theonion.com/

But given the facts that german cars are really good and that the local news hardly can make reports about troubles with the commuter buses without making "Nie wieder!"-remarks, then it would be no surprise for me if it turn outs to be true.
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Translation: Father Dagon's thumb was the real source of his remarks. Case closed.

Do you know any germans? I've got a friend who's mother is german and he visits Germany from time to time and he follows the german tv channels. So he's both an insider and an outsider.
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I was born a few kilometers on the Dutch side of the border and I worked for many years in Germany. Consider me almost German. The first 2 lines of the Dutch national anthem:

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
Ben ick van Duytschen bloet,
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'I am of German blood'

And if the protesters made a cool risk-analysis, then they would've realized that delaying the waste transports increases the risks. Protests per se can I respect, but not those who makes matter worse.
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So you admit there is a risk. And that 'matters can be made worse'.

So given the almost-civil wars, the best explanation I see is that they're taking "progressiveness" to the extreme. Not in a explicitly anti-nazi way, but it's part of the package deal.
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You will find nuclear sceptics among conservatices as well. It has nothing to do with Nazism, not even implicitly.

Obviously the events in Japan are a major setback for the nuclear industry. But if the Japanese manage to get the situation under control then after some time the difficult energy situation will put nuclear energy back on the agenda. Unfortunately.
 
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I kept thinking while watching the videos of the tsunamis, that it looked like some places the water was going downhill when it first hit. And you can clearly see boats going over walls and then down.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anaguma/426953746/

I knew it! They built all these tsunami walls and felt safe behind them. No wonder the destruction was so terrible in places. It would be like a damn being crested, but the water couldn't get back out to the sea after the fact.

Each new tsunami added more water to the first.
 
r-j said:
I knew it! They built all these tsunami walls and felt safe behind them. No wonder the destruction was so terrible in places. It would be like a damn being crested, but the water couldn't get back out to the sea after the fact.

Each new tsunami added more water to the first.
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Watching the long video, it seems to that a tsunami wall would have to be hundreds of feet high to keep all that water from flowing over it.
 
The Central Scrutinizer said:
CNN just posted an alert that says Japan is now restricting the sale of produce from that area, due to radiation.

So he couldn't sell his melon, even if he wanted to.
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Well, this is the same country that banned ALL beef imports from the U.S. and Canada due to a couple of cases of mad cow disease. So it would seem they are very cautious.
 
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