Holy shit.

Pretty amazing video following the Tsunami coming in. Rolling over whatever is in the way. Not a really tall/high wave, but the power of this thing coming in is pretty crazy. It looks like its miles wide.

I've never seen anything like it.

Those fuckers from Monster Island are at it again.

Amazing video.

A pretty big explosion at one of the nuclear power plants. Hopefully not a nuclear meltdown, but it's not good.

The folks I know in Japan are all safe and accounted for, thank goodness.

Now 3 reactors are in trouble. Not good.

Gilbert Gottfried axed by Aflac for :insensitive: remarks on Twitter, or something.

So apparently the last expolsion is a bad one and is releasing radiation. AFAICT anyway. The first two were the outer shell and the inside container or containment vesels were still intact. Not so on the last one.

If you donate to help the people in Japan, please don't donate to religious charities. Those people need food, clean water, and shelter, not pamphlets about Jesus.

Hallelujah!

I would think efficiency and results would be the priority in regards to disaster relief and while I've no real information at who is best with giant surfer wave relief the Mormons have like the most efficient and effective disaster relief assistance system on the planet.

I'd worry less about who's trying to convert and more about who's actually helping.

Billy Graham's boy has a decent charity, afaict anyway.

The thing is that some of the religious charities don't take as much dough as others...like the Red Cross takes quite a bit or used to.

So I'm not a nuclear engineer or anything like that...

So the primary cooling system failed, electricity went out. Something happened to the secondary coolant system when the diesel generators couldn't provide electricity to the pumps to pump the water to cool the rods. And the third battery system also failed.

Most of the rods have been moved out of the reactor and stored in a pool of water. The problem is that the pool of water has evaporated and they haven't been able to fill that pool up with water. They were thinking about bringing in some water from hellofacopters to fill it back up. 3 of the reactors have some deformity.

So this thing won't blow up like a nuclear bomb, but will melt down and then the reactors next to that one will melt down and things will really begin to suck. But I don't think it will get that far.

This kind of radiation is worse than a nuclear bomb in some ways, according to what I've read. A nuclear bomb is so hot that some of the radiation is burned up or something. This kind of radiation will not go away as quick cuz it really hasn't been spent/burned, etc.

Again, I'm not a nuclear scientist or anything like that though.

http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/03/16/um-expert-catastrophic-radiation-event-unlikely-in-japan/

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html

Always nice to get a Taymelo update.

more quakes now: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/japan-earthquake-2011-mag_n_846081.html

Sad.

Ee

NPR News: Cars, Houses, Human Remains: Debris From Japan Is Headed Toward U.S. http://n.pr/iiJHgd

It's weird to think now that there are areas of Japan that used to be filled with lots of people, but are now going to be uninhabitable for decades at least.