Fukushima...are you concerned?

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  • Hulk's origin should be rewritten lol

    As a doctor, for too, too long he had too many cellphones and other wireless devices in the front (and back) pockets of his purple jorts.
  • Would explain why he doesn't have kids, probably no ass hair either...but it's possible when he goes all hulk them suckers shoot off like sonic bullets so fast that its not seen nor felt. ...I'm writing Marvel and ask.

    Then im pitching Capt'n Baldass to Toho so he can get his ass stomped by Godzilla, it will be epic!
  • Originally posted by: D~Funk



    I'm sold





    ya, i played fallout 3. radiation really isnt that bad. you can actually run around in it for a while b4 it starts to lower your health % and then you can take some pills to recover instantly, so not a big deal..
  • Originally posted by: skinnygrinny

    Originally posted by: D~Funk



    I'm sold





    ya, i played fallout 3. radiation really isnt that bad. you can actually run around in it for a while b4 it starts to lower your health % and then you can take some pills to recover instantly, so not a big deal..




    Just need to find me some Radaway
  • Originally posted by: D~Funk

     
    Originally posted by: skinnygrinny

     
    Originally posted by: D~Funk



    I'm sold





    ya, i played fallout 3. radiation really isnt that bad. you can actually run around in it for a while b4 it starts to lower your health % and then you can take some pills to recover instantly, so not a big deal..

    Just need to find me some Radaway



    thats what it was. i never get bery far with that game. i check ever little fucking thing in every lil room. fuuuuuuuuck me. lol! 

     
  • Anything that contaminates our food supply causes me some concern. I'm more worried about Monsanto, and how they contaminate our food with glyphosate.
  • I'm really hoping most people here are joking about radiation, because it's not a laughing matter. I know, Chernobyl is old news, but it offers an excellent view of what a real radioactive apocalypse is like. People don't mutate, they don't get super powers, they fucking die. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard of an adult gaining a mutation from significant ionizing radioactive exposure.



    As a general rule of thumb, ionizing radiation affects the human body depending on the body's age. Children are at most risk because their bodies are developing rapidly. They usually die or gain useless mutations, like missing limbs. Younger adults usually don't fare any better, usually death and/or impotence. Seniors are at least risk because their bodies are not developing, they are just riding out finished development until end of life. Cell replication is greatly slowed compared to children, meaning the deadly effects of radiation are far less impacting.
  • Originally posted by: cirellio

     
    Originally posted by: jonebone



    "Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you seen" - Benjamin Franklin



    In other words, don't sweat media embellishment. I say you should be more worried about your cell phone killing your sperm count (if you carry it in you front pocket) then nuclear affects from another continent.



    Ben Franklin's words here are some that I live by, goes really well with "Beware the sound of one hand clapping."

     



    And "beware of the proctologist putting two hands on your shoulders during your exam".

     
  • Am I concerned? Yes and No.



    I'm concerned enough to not want to go visit my birthplace on the northern end of Honshu, aka the island with Fukushima/Tokyo/etc...



    But do I think it's the end for Planet Earth?  No, I think the Earth is much more robust than we give it credit for... 



     
  • The ocean is too big for us here to be worried.



    It will absolutely damage the eco system around the area it happened, but the ocean is very big.



    Nature always finds a way to heal itself, although radioactive damage takes a long time to recover from.
  • Originally posted by: cirellio



    Gotta worry about the killer bees and avian flu first. Be sure to move out of the blast radius of Yellowstone at least.



    I'm fucked.

     
  • Never heard of it, don't do news.
  • Originally posted by: TheToxieRules



    Never heard of it, don't do news.

    I'll summarize all of the news for you



    Liberals are cucks and responsible for all of the things

    Conservatives are fascists and responsible for all of the things
  • Originally posted by: Brock Landers

     
    Originally posted by: TheToxieRules



    Never heard of it, don't do news.

    I'll summarize all of the news for you



    Liberals are cucks and responsible for all of the things

    Conservatives are fascists and responsible for all of the things

    I Knew It!!! This is where my research has led me as well! 



     
  • Originally posted by: D~Funk



    Simple breakdown is, in the 2011 Japanese Tsunami event the Fukushima reactors were damaged and have been leaking radiation into the ocean since. I'm not an expert on the situation but it kinda freaks me out that it could pretty much destroy the pacific ocean eco system and that its probably already made landfall on the west coast tainting our water supplies

    It wouldn't surprise me, at all, if there are natural wells of radioactive material that are contributing SIGNIFICANTLY more radiation to the pacific ocean, on the whole, than what happened at Fukushima.



  • Marvel banned me.
  • I had a guy in a Costco pull me aside and give me a long rant about wild-caught fish, the region of origin, and this exact issue.



    I can't say that I took it to heart, but it made me think on it for a bit.
  • I agree you're in more danger from you phone in a pocket or all the wireless radio waves bouncing around than the reactor. Besides, it's japan they'll have something figured out in now time.
  • Fukushima was a cat7 accident like Chernobyl, but it was much weaker. The radiation at the moment is only dangerous in some very limited areas, but it's mostly higher than average. The fact that radiation leaks into the ocean is not surprising, however I don't think it's enough to affect any immediate area that is outside of the exclusion zone by more than 1-3 mSv/annum, and the world by much less than that.



    Fun fact: During my research, I found out that I live in what might be the most radioactive large city in Canada. No idea what's the cause, but it's mostly due to inhalation.
  • I am not concerned at all.

    We are all going to die one day, so eh. Dying from severe radiation poisoning isn't even top 20 of my most feared ways of dying.
  • You'd be fine and dandy dying from your body falling apart at the atomic level? Radiation-burned skin falling off, your hair falling out, organs randomly failing, all that excruciating pain...
  • I regularly battle a villain who is a walking nuclear reactor. Also, a nuclear explosion once flung me into a second nuclear explosion, which then flung my body through several layers of super thick reinforced titanium; that experience was catastrophic...because it caused me to miss the first few minutes of Brooklyn Nine-Nine. This is child's play compared to that.
  • Far more radiation gets released by coal mining/burning. Coal ash is insanely radioactive, but its just continuous clouds over decades instead of being a single point people can freak out about.

     
    Originally posted by: That Old Au Guy



    Fun fact: During my research, I found out that I live in what might be the most radioactive large city in Canada. No idea what's the cause, but it's mostly due to inhalation.

    That was like finding out the hills where I lived were full of asbestos.  Any kind of construction was just spewing it everywhere.  The roads they cut and the mercury mines released more than contained in all the houses.
  • Originally posted by: bunnyboy



    Far more radiation gets released by coal mining/burning. Coal ash is insanely radioactive, but its just continuous clouds over decades instead of being a single point people can freak out about.

     
    Originally posted by: That Old Au Guy



    Fun fact: During my research, I found out that I live in what might be the most radioactive large city in Canada. No idea what's the cause, but it's mostly due to inhalation.

    That was like finding out the hills where I lived were full of asbestos.  Any kind of construction was just spewing it everywhere.  The roads they cut and the mercury mines released more than contained in all the houses.

    On the first topic, I agree. It'll only affect Japan SOMEWHAT.



    Also for us, I think it's because of the radioactive waste from Pinawa being buried badly, but no idea what's causing it. It could also be the radon in everyone's houses.
  • Japan seems to be doing OK.
  • Originally posted by: Guntz



    You'd be fine and dandy dying from your body falling apart at the atomic level? Radiation-burned skin falling off, your hair falling out, organs randomly failing, all that excruciating pain...

    That is at least 100 times better than dying from dementia.

    Much quicker and easier on my beloved ones too.



     
  • Originally posted by: Guntz



    You'd be fine and dandy dying from your body falling apart at the atomic level? Radiation-burned skin falling off, your hair falling out, organs randomly failing, all that excruciating pain...



    While this is in reply to Bea's "severe radiation poisoning" comment... it is rather hyperbolic to suggest that ANYBODY outside of those in Fukushima itself are EVER going to have "severe" radiation poisoning due to that event.



  • Im in pacific northwest :/ not really wanting thyroid cancer in 20 years so i think i will start taking some iodine supplements..
  • Hell, three dudes at Chernobyl dived into an irradiated pool to drain it of water (lest the core fall into it and explode.) They not only survived, but two of them are still alive. One did die of a heart attack, 19 years after the event.
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