Comments on Nuke Pro: Deep Water Whale strands itself in the Shark Kill Zone of Maui

Yeah, I think you "get it"

2014-01-04T11:08:10.162-08:00

Yeah, I think you "get it"

Oh, one more thing: Please don't be mad at TEP...

2014-01-02T19:29:20.980-08:00

Oh, one more thing: Please don't be mad at TEPCO.

Yes, I know... some people mistook the *spent* fuel pool for the *bent* fuel pool on several occasion over the past twenty-five years or so.

But let's keep it fair, folks, m'kay ? It's a typical beginner's mistake. Happens at your favorite nuclear power plant every other day. No big deal.

Besides, I recently witnessed a spokesman on TV* personally affirming that "it is absolutely ridiculous ever to worry about ... anything ... and that ... no matter what ... ever happens ... will ever pose any safety or security threat to any nuclear reactor that has ever been built anywhere within and without the United States of America".
And I need to add: that guy looked very proficient and respectable to me.

After all, you - me - anyone could have made that stupid mistake......... NOT !

*A brand-new 60" GE/HITACHI flat-screen with so-and-so-many-Hz anti-this-and-pro-that-technology. Yet the power consumption is very moderate, only 450 W @ 800 Wpp. I bought it the week before Christmas. The purchase will possibly render me bankrupt one day, but my inner voice told kept telling me that anyone resisting that amazing buy-now-pay-later offer at an annual interest rate of only 5 % is a fool, so what the heck ! That shiny box kind of makes me sooooo happy, sometimes I totally forget about everything else ! Sometimes the indicator LED of the built-in camera is alight although I do not use it, but the lady from service hotline told me that this happens at rare occasions due to a stupid firmware bug and that I can safely ignore it.

Yep, pimps looking for a grant, that is "expe...

2014-01-02T18:30:37.594-08:00

Yep, pimps looking for a grant, that is "expert"

Finally we have proof that our marine friends are ...

2014-01-02T18:05:38.358-08:00

Finally we have proof that our marine friends are at least as capable as we humans are (or better: claim to be) when it comes to taking intelligent decisions. If given the choice between a quick and painful death and spending your (nonetheless very limited) remaining lifetime in starving condition and hardly less pain, I think most of us would go for the suicide pill (and hey, the chemical industry promises their latest cyanide products specifically designed for end-time use taste as sweet as grandma's cookies and yet have *zero* calories, truely amazing stuff !), wouldn't we* ?

To be honest, I'm afraid there is a more plausible reason for the whale beaching itself**: in a desperate but nonetheless intelligent action, it concluded that the only option to save it from death is seeking for help, even if it means surrendering itself to the mercy of the species that it knows is usually its enemy.

God knows what drives all the other poor creatures to show up everywhere near the coast in a "never-before-seen" behavior which "baffles" so-called "experts"*** claiming to lack any idea what might be causing it. In the end, it doesn't matter if these animals are simply following their instinct as they flee away from the poisonous cloud in the water (which I suspect they can smell or taste; maybe they even have the sensory for radiation that humans are lacking) or if they have commonly decided that it is finally time to make the very last call for human help.

I feel deeply ashamed and saddened it has all come this way. Actually, I don't care about humanity, but I am not willing to accept the fact that all the literally innocent other forms of life on this planet are supposed to join us on the inevitable march into the nuclear grave, as they do not have the slightest share in generating this totally fucked-up situation.

*Actually, there is no need for conjecture regarding that question - we'll all be facing the very same situation in a not-too-distant future. Sorry, folks, expedited evolution (tm) works that way.

**One particular thing that always seemed "odd" to me about the English language is its use of "it", "its", "itself" etc when it comes to animals. I dislike the idea of animals being treated like things (which unfortunately humans tend to do lit(t)erally, not only in a grammatical sense). In German (my native language) the personal pronouns used for animal are the same as for human beings, eg "Sie" ("she") for a female cat or "Er" ("he") for a male lion. "Es" (it) only applies to actual things/objects, while in English the few existing gender-specific nouns like "tomcat" or "bitch" (I once read "she-dog" somewhere) would still be commonly substituted by "it" - except an author's use of "bitch" coincidentally refers to his ex-wife, Margaret Thatcher or Hillary Clinton ;-)

***The word "experts" has deteriorated to a synonym for pseudo-scientists people who obviously are missing any sort of brain and/or conscience; thinking of them makes me feel sick.