Posted on 03/14/2011 2:11:19 AM PDT by buccaneer81
I thought the economist in Cambridge looked kind of foolish from the get-go. Not on the basis of his (cut and paste) analysis, but because he never seemed to think that the information on which his analysis was based may be inaccurate or incomplete. Of course I was told I was an idiot. Time will tell...
They probably had an old cold war detector mounted somewhere that started raising holy hell. Everybody was standing around looking at it till the Chief realized what it was and went “oh ****”.
PR value. Recruiting value. 16 year old kids considering enlisting probably take comfort in seeing it. It's a morale booster for the families, I imagine. It's not like classified info from the navy will end up there any more than it would in any other electronic communications.
I agree. And there are a lot of analysts who say the Japanese are holding back info until it becomes impossible not to. The Japanese culture values saving face, and that would seem to be the case here, according to observers.
their bones would drop too...
I suggest canned Beer as well.
The radioactive particles can penetrate BEER that’s in bottles.
Can I wrap my bottles in aluminum foil?
maybe they were taking readings, got the info they needed and moved out?
if tin foil hat’s work... then by all means!
Wrong spot, my FRiend. You are in the direct path of the SW summer wind pattern from the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant ;-)
it's a 24 hour news cycle. They have nothing to report, so they speculate. Because they sure as hell don't want to talk about what happened in Wisconsin last week.
Few really safe(R) places in the world .... mostly S hemisphere .... Archipelago of the Recherche and Tasmania, Australia ... S Island New Zealand .... Kerguelen Island (hope you like fish and glaciers). Tierra del Fuego. Places like that.
Do either of you happen to be yellow...like Homer Simpson?
I guess there are many russian accidents. I might be refering to the k19 one. I read about it but forgot which it was.
That was a coolant leak because of broken pipes.
Does blonde hair count? :^)
Thank you. I’m glad my comments made sense to you. I appreciate your note of agreement.
You may be right. The tsunami wouldn’t seem to be a problem.
I do wonder though, what happens to surface water if the sea floor drops twenty feet. Does the surface drop twenty feet?
Okay, but what happens if the sea floor drops by twenty feet at that location? Does the surface drop by twenty feet?
In our nation the wind generally moves West to East, or perhaps North West to South East. I realize there are variations from that, but I had hoped the Japanese wind currents were somewhat true to one norm.
There are of course times when our prevailing winds do a 180, but it’s not all that often that wind from San Diego moves up to L. A. If anything both L. A.’s and San Diego’s winds move eastward.
Of course that isn’t cast in granite either.
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