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Old Mar 13, 2011 | 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Pusha
Maybe you're just one of those weird ******** who marry an Asian woman because you can't get laid.
Nice try, ***.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:13 PM
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Originally Posted by rmcelwee
Their women? (see pic below)

Their food? Meow, Arf Arf
That happens to all women.

And nice work lumping all your asians together with the cat and dog meat. I'm pretty sure nobody in Japan eats either.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
At Fukushima-I, the reactor vessel itself is still intact, and the sequence of events has thus far resembled that which occurred in the meltdown event at Three Mile Island Unit 2 in 1979 (loss of cooling, venting of steam, hydrogen explosion) and appears that the reactor itself is presently in a shutdown condition, requiring only decay cooling. It's an ugly situation, and there has been a release of radioactive steam, but a full-scale Chernobyl event just isn't in the cards.
At the risk of not summarizing (because it's actually kind of interesting), here is a link to an article that attempts to analyze the reactor situation at Fukushima-I

http://allthingsnuclear.org/post/382...ushima-reactor


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The worst thing that will come of this is that the global nuclear power industry as a whole has probably just been set back another 30 years, further increasing our dependence on fossil fuels and setting the stage for more billions of dollars to be poured down the bottomless pit of "green" energy development.
nuclear power technology is already set back 30 years.

true green energy is the energy that isn't used. but people like to take all they can get their hands on and live like kings.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:27 PM
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I'm pretty sure no green energy we develop will be as good as nuclear. Not as efficient, not as cost efficient, not as clean. We can just cover the face of the earth with a wind turbine every 1/8 mile to support our near futures power demands. Why build many fewer of the safest power source we know, nuclear...
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Doppelgänger
So I'm sure most everyone knows about this by now. But it's crazy. Been watching the live cameras in Hawaii and the west coast. Hope it doesn't hit us too hard. Japan is the kind of country we need to help...we shouldn't have wasted all those resources on Hati...some help yes, but not as much as we did.

By far, this is the most astounding image to me so far-

WTF is that?

I thought the videos of the big houses floating in the flood while on fire were interesting.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:51 PM
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Fusion would be the ultimate green energy source.

I thought exactly the same thing, that the worst thing in the end is it will be used as anti-nuclear propaganda.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
Nice try, ***.
so you'd marry a Japanese dude? is that legal in their advanced culture?
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
You fool, they were up in the mountains drifting, they all lived. If anything, they are the only people left alive in the entire country.
That's just too gay.
















Old Mar 13, 2011 | 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Pusha
so you'd marry a Japanese dude? is that legal in their advanced culture?
What are you even talking about now?
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 06:30 PM
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Looks like it's time for some renewed interest in cold fusion.

Old Mar 13, 2011 | 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
Looks like it's time for some renewed interest in cold fusion.

lol
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 09:22 PM
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I have no problem with nuclear power production... it's the storage of spent fuel that's an issue.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by y8s
That happens to all women.

And nice work lumping all your asians together with the cat and dog meat. I'm pretty sure nobody in Japan eats either.
It was a joke...
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by y8s
I have no problem with nuclear power production... it's the storage of spent fuel that's an issue.
That is a non-issue. You build a missle-like container and drop it into the bottom of the ocean in half mile deep mud. Only tree hugging liberals think this is a bad idea.

I can't wait for a tornado to rip through a windmill farm and kill the **** out of a town so we can watch people start protesting wind power.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 10:17 PM
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windmills killing birds got the epithetical liberals to protest.

the smart thing to do would be to repurpose the spent rods in containers at water treatment plants and install a permanent hot water utility supply pipe in everyone's house so that hot water is now an offsite item. that would be awesome.

or you could put it in the ocean

and then when the teenage mutant ninja sharks came after you...
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by y8s
windmills killing birds got the epithetical liberals to protest.

the smart thing to do would be to repurpose the spent rods in containers at water treatment plants and install a permanent hot water utility supply pipe in everyone's house so that hot water is now an offsite item. that would be awesome.

or you could put it in the ocean

and then when the teenage mutant ninja sharks came after you...
And how do you get hot water to homes miles away without it cooling?
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 10:28 PM
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Nuclear power is win. Best solution we have right now. Fear mongering/uninformed public will continue to kill it.

That **** sucks for Japan. My brother was stationed there, left to come back to the states a couple days before this happened. Glad he missed out on that one. I imagine there are few things scarier than watching the sea just swallow up the land around you.
Old Mar 13, 2011 | 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by NA6C-Guy
And how do you get hot water to homes miles away without it cooling?
Duh, it's nuclear and never cools down!

Old Mar 13, 2011 | 11:40 PM
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In case you haven't seen it (before and after pics):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/ja...eforeafter.htm
Old Mar 14, 2011 | 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by messiahx
Nuclear power is win. Best solution we have right now. Fear mongering/uninformed public will continue to kill it.
What? The public has no ******* clue what goes into nuclear regulations, nor do they give a rats *** about it, other than being ignorantly in fear that a meltdown will turn their children into fungus. The "problem" is that nuclear facilities are running on 30 year old technology and no one from FERC has the ***** to make concessions to use newer technology, nor does anyone working in nuclear have the ***** to challenge FERC...Perhaps the 'youtube' generation will be brave enough (god that's a scary thought...) to make the regulatory changes to put us on par with the rest of the world, but for right now we're stuck with the 60 year old consultants who could give two ***** about an automated control system when their mechanical controls have keep the plant from melting down for the time being.



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