This taken from a post on motherjones comment section. Note the hilarious second response.
How about how the Fukushima Daiichi damaged the Pacific? Maybe
someone should look into all the other issues the Pacific has had with
die offs? It seems like the media does its best to avoid reporting the
damage.
Radiation is a conspiracy theory.
Just because we've seen a
couple UME's
<Unusual Mortality Events> and multi-species die-offs along the Pacific since 2011
doesn't mean anything, its only been
- birds,
- whales,
- dolphins,
- walrus,
- sardines,
- herring,
- needlefish,
- smelt,
- salmon,
- trout,
- sturgeon,
- seals,
- sea lions,
- sea stars,
- sea anemones,
- sea cucumbers,
- sea urchins,
- sea
hares,
- octopus,
- limpets,
- mussels
- and the ones I forgot.
Just because
NOAA (or anyone else) isn't sampling any of these specimens for
radionuclides doesn't prove anything, except that radiation is a
conspiracy theory with no factual basis in science.
Its not like
three cores bleeding into the ocean for 1631 days could even have an
effect, look how big the ocean is and look how small radionuclides
are... and its not like there are studies proving irradiated water
increases water temperature for the life of its decay.
Meh, conspiracies.
Nicely done.
And the State Secrecy law Japan passed is helping to ensure there's little "factual basis in science" being leaked.
At least they're stemming one of the leaks. /s
Additional Sarcasm found at "The Economist" on a poorly written article. The comment section was actually done by people with higher levels of knowledge, but this one was at least funny in a sick sort of way. Related to what to do with nuclear waste.
Some ideas:
1. Contract this out to a mining company and have it overseen by the EPA. There are plenty of mine-tailings lakes that could be immediately employed. Sure they will leak into tributaries of major rivers, but hey it's a national problem. Anyway the effects are unlikely to be much worse than leaded gasoline.
2. Guantanamo Bay. It is US territory, and the people who live there are already too dangerous to move. Could be the basis for a fascinating study into the effects on radiation on people. Better than using your own troops.
3. Ask Walmart to dump it off the coast of California. Will require some extra cost to employee marine biologists to identify any sites of the CA coast that haven't been dumped on - no point leaving a job half done.
4. Work with Trump: who needs a fence when you could build a moat, a giant moat filled with radiation. A modest and very intelligent idea. On the U.S. side this could be landscaped by Donald's wig maker who already specialises in things that look like irradiated desert plants.
5. Frack and Dump strategy. OPEC, and with it a dozen of America's least favourite countries are being crushed by U.S. oil. So why not crush the international black market in nuclear materials with US nuclear waste? It will then almost certainly be used in the Middle East or Europe (may as well wipe out Europe before it is totally overrun).
6. Just wait for Putin to nuke Estonia or Warsaw. There are two options here. One is to then dump it at ground zero, or (the best long term option) - fry Russia and dump it there. Hell this should have been done years ago.
I been here for the last four years. I use to get mad. now I am just feeling sorry for our human race being depleted. I am 67 blond and blue eye's. I love fish. all fish. Have not had any fish for 4 years. It's feels like crap. Chicken, Pork and Beef. It gets old. You can't talk to anyone. No one wants to hear anything about Japan or Radiation. Japan now starting up a power plant 30 miles from a Volcano? LOL, LOL All the way to my grave. What a complete mess.
ReplyDeleteYa, its kind of sad seeing this go down "on my watch" but we can only do what is possible. I still do eat fish. Easy enough to test, oven dry a piece, remove all moisture, run it by a geiger, compare to background.
DeleteIf you get a positive, you won't know what it is, but you will know it is something. Take rest of fish back to store for a radioactive refund.
Be kind of funny if like 10 people did this in a day to one food store chain in one city.
At the restaurant in the Nuke Hotel:
DeleteWaiter, I've got a fly in my soup.
-The soup is warm, though. Right?
Yes. But there are also mosquitos, crickets, gnats, brown recluse spiders, centipedes, ants, horse flies, roaches, moths, mouse turds, OMG! a mouse!, birds, and slugs in it!
Why ya think they call it soup?
And what about that tempura soylent green? you bitching about that too? lol
DeleteA Geiger won't pick up neutrons which would be a sign of fissile. Natural radiation in the ocean is by far more than anything given up by Fukushima. I eat Pacific seafood without worry. Knowledge is power they say. I know that my food is safe from radiation. Its the heavy metals that worry me.
ReplyDelete20 miles. 31 kilometers. 4 hours for an average bicyclist. 30 minutes by car on a winding road. 7 minutes by the slowest airplane.
ReplyDeleteI read accounts of a pilot barely keeping ahead of Mount Saint Helens' ash cloud by diving to pick up speed.
7 minutes after eruption, Sendai nuclear power plant would be engulfed in heavy ash. Thank God that gives the workers enough time to toss 900 tons of spent fuel rods in a back pack, grab their cigarettes and Saki, and tell their family everythings fine at work. "Well honey, We did leave the active core, but those melt down all the time." Got biscuits?" --- sarcasm, powered by unincredulous.
Ah yes, sweet sarcasm, sweet as a ripening Serrano pepper....
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