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Posted: Mar 16 2011 08:52 am

Man, Japan just can't get a break with nuclear technology, can they?

Posted: Mar 16 2011 09:00 am

I don't get why they can't just drop an insane amount of dry ice on the fire - I mean like TONS.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 10:23 am

I think it's due to the fact of how quickly the Dry Ice would melt in comparison to how quickly they can get it into the reactors.

I read somewhere that normally they have cooling pumps pump water into the plant onto the reactors, once they lost electricity and took damage from the quake they no longer worked.

I have a friend who works at a Nuke Plant, and he said all of the ones in the U.S. are equipped with Gravity Fed Cooling Water in case they can't use the primary or secondary pumps. He said that he would assume that Japan would have the same thing since their plants are technologically about the same as ours.

From what I understand, the problem is they just can't get Sea Water into the plant fast enough to cool it down. All the water is evaporating/steaming up and that's what caused one of the explosions.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 11:13 am

Talked to a friend who lives over on the island and he's fine, so I'm feeling relieved, but he can't reach two of his colleagues who teach English down south of where he's at. My heart really goes out to all of the people there, and it really does illustrate the differences in our cultures; no rioting, no looting, people working together. Wish we could've done that during Katrina or any other natural disaster here.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 02:13 pm

username wrote:

charlie sheen is donating $1 from his ticket sales for his upcoming show to relief efforts.

The way you said this, I thought Charlie Sheen was going to donate exactly $1 total. I thought I wouldn't put it past him to do that, but still.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 04:09 pm

The-Excel wrote:

username wrote:

charlie sheen is donating $1 from his ticket sales for his upcoming show to relief efforts.

The way you said this, I thought Charlie Sheen was going to donate exactly $1 total. I thought I wouldn't put it past him to do that, but still.

haha, i guess i did mess up with the wording on it.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 06:39 pm

aeonic wrote:

My heart really goes out to all of the people there, and it really does illustrate the differences in our cultures; no rioting, no looting, people working together. Wish we could've done that during Katrina or any other natural disaster here.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 08:04 pm

wow, thats quick

Posted: Mar 16 2011 09:16 pm

In response to Excel's Photo.

There's no fucking way they fixed that road from picture A to B that quickly.

You're telling me in 4 days they leveled that land out, repaved it, and planted trees?

I don't buy that shit.

Posted: Mar 16 2011 09:31 pm

if there are workers who work nonstop, why not?

Posted: Mar 16 2011 10:54 pm

if they hired mexicans they could probably get it done that quickly lol

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username wrote:

if they hired mexicans they could probably get it done that quickly lol

Posted: Mar 16 2011 11:03 pm

well, its not like they arent there.

A Mexican Red Cross member, center, points toward a dead body found by a sniffer dog to French firemen during a search operation in Sendai on March 16.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Mar 16 2011 11:22 pm

People aren't the only ones looking for each other over at Japan:

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Username,

Good save Smile

Posted: Mar 17 2011 12:44 am

Atma wrote:

In response to Excel's Photo.

There's no fucking way they fixed that road from picture A to B that quickly.

You're telling me in 4 days they leveled that land out, repaved it, and planted trees?

I don't buy that shit.

Don't take it from me:

Posted: Mar 17 2011 07:52 am

username wrote:

if they hired mexicans they could probably get it done that quickly lol

Haha. Hey, it works for California.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 02:05 pm

well, US officials are afraid of this nuclear fallout:

The US government has chartered planes to evacuate Americans from Japan, in a sign that the US is increasingly concerned about the nuclear crisis.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12777022

Gallery 2 · Posted: Mar 17 2011 03:28 pm

Way to indirectly tell Japan that it is royally fucked, America... I'm sure they'll remember this gesture of confidence once they recover from it.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 07:43 pm

I don't blame them. I'm sure more than a few of them just want to go home right now.

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I feel sympathy for Japan, but I don't feel like it is a bad thing that Americans want to get the fuck out of there.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 08:30 pm

It's not that they are the only ones leaving either. When they recover from this I would hope they see the donations for relief efforts from America rather than this.

Posted: Mar 17 2011 09:15 pm

Everything can and should be explained with poop and farts.

ALSO: http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/September/20050915165123ajesrom9.768313e-02.html

Posted: Mar 17 2011 09:57 pm

that was cool.

Gallery 2 · Posted: Mar 18 2011 12:17 am

On a side note, I wonder if the Yakuza's over there helping out like they did back then after the Kobe earthquake in 1995.