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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    TailWindHome wrote:
    So Japan has had an earthquake, a tsunami and now a radiation leak.


    I can't be the only one waiting for Godzilla to show up.

    Godzilla may turn up, but only to protect the population from Sharktopus.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    That wasn't the only disaster that occured to day.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-12716595

    :wink:
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Butterd2 wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Butterd2 wrote:
    They are quoting the Moon thing on the BBC too, I guess in theory the increased gravitational pull might be the final straw that triggers the movement between the plates but I think I'm sticking with the bollox, complete and utter for now.
    The pictures are incredible.

    I'd be quite surprised if the Moon has that strong a gravitational effect. IIRC, one of the moons of one of the two gas giants has unexpected volcanic activity because it is little, and has an odd orbit, and gets bent out of shape by Jupiter/Saturn's massive gravitational field. If the Earth isn't bending the Moon around significantly, how on earth (ha!) is the Moon able to bend the Earth?

    Well that's what I thought but then the gravitational pull of the moon is sufficient to make billions of tons of waters go sloshing around the earth twice a day....

    Put some water on a tile. Blow on it. Your puff will move the water no problem. Don't suppose it will crack the tile.

    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    Really? Well I never.

    It's an i-l-l-u-s-t-r-a-t-i-o-n. Not of the force applied, but of the relative malleability of the two substances to which it is applied.

    Or do you really think the moon is causing techtonic activity on earth? The US Geological Survey doesn't.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    News just in, scientists believe the Earth is spherical and orbits the Sun!
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    News just in, scientists believe the Earth is spherical and orbits the Sun!
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    JonGinge wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    News just in, scientists believe the Earth is spherical and orbits the Sun!
    *mumble,mumble*oblate spheroid*mumble,mumble*

    Yeah, yeah. Bloody pedants!
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    JonGinge wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    News just in, scientists believe the Earth is spherical and orbits the Sun!
    *mumble,mumble*oblate spheroid*mumble,mumble*
    That really isn't fair, for those of us reading this on an iPod. font = miniscule indeed.
  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Can't you read it when you quote?
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  • jimmypippa
    jimmypippa Posts: 1,712
    Isn't the "supermoon" on March 19th?

    That's a quarter of the tide cycle away from the date odf the earthquake anyway.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Did anyone see that video of the American tourist filming in the park?

    Where he could see the cracks growing and moving? He was commenting on how the water mains have burst 'cos the earthquake is moving the ground.

    No mate - that's liquifaction. The ground you are on is saturated with water and floating.

    You might want to run at this point.
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    I hope the Shimano factory is allright....

    But in all seriousness, as the day has gone on, it looks worse and worse....
    It is.

    http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/s ... nami-29599
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 28,969
    Well the scheduled power cuts will have an effect - not damaged, but I'd be surprised if they don't suspend or reduce production.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Greg66 wrote:
    Or do you really think the moon is causing techtonic activity on earth? The US Geological Survey doesn't.

    What do they know?! They're only "Scientists". They probably have some kind of pro tectonics agenda they're trying to push.
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    notsoblue wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Or do you really think the moon is causing techtonic activity on earth? The US Geological Survey doesn't.

    What do they know?! They're only "Scientists". They probably have some kind of pro tectonics agenda they're trying to push.

    Hmmm... maybe they have enough on their plate with this earthquake. Maybe they are looking for more off the shelf ideas.....
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Or do you really think the moon is causing techtonic activity on earth? The US Geological Survey doesn't.

    What do they know?! They're only "Scientists". They probably have some kind of pro tectonics agenda they're trying to push.

    Hmmm... maybe they have enough on their plate with this earthquake. Maybe they are looking for more off the shelf ideas.....

    Ahhh I was waiting for the tsunami jokes to start flooding in...


    (too soon?)
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:
    notsoblue wrote:
    Greg66 wrote:
    Or do you really think the moon is causing techtonic activity on earth? The US Geological Survey doesn't.

    What do they know?! They're only "Scientists". They probably have some kind of pro tectonics agenda they're trying to push.

    Hmmm... maybe they have enough on their plate with this earthquake. Maybe they are looking for more off the shelf ideas.....

    Ahhh I was waiting for the tsunami jokes to start flooding in...


    (too soon?)

    Aye too soon..... I got cut down for a light hearted comment about Shimano, then we find that BR does a news article on it!!

    Could be more quakes and the power station meltdown may not be too clever.
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    edited March 2011
    CiB wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Gravity is not the same as wind.

    News just in, scientists believe the Earth is spherical and orbits the Sun!
    *mumble,mumble*oblate spheroid*mumble,mumble*
    That really isn't fair, for those of us reading this on an iPod. font = miniscule indeed.
    Sorry, wrote the post on my smart phone*

    *teeheehee

    Too soon? Not sure. It's in our (humans in general not just BR residents) nature to make light of serious events. That said, I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.**


    Lame attempt at a play on words
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    ive already received "jokes" about the tsunami........
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Ah well. Not too soon by the sheer volume of jokes on my phone!

    I won't share them with y'all here then, eh?
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Ah well. Not too soon by the sheer volume of jokes on my phone!

    I won't share them with y'all here then, eh?

    PM them to people who want them (like me)?
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Ah well. Not too soon by the sheer volume of jokes on my phone!

    I won't share them with y'all here then, eh?

    Go on.... let me know them. pm will do... :)
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    Lit, you know the "i'm shocked" above was an attempt at a joke, right?
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    EKE_38BPM wrote:

    PM them to people who want them (like me)?


    sent :wink:
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    JonGinge wrote:
    Lit, you know the "i'm shocked" above was an attempt at a joke, right?

    Compared to the ones sitting in my phone right now it was rubbish :P
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    Lit, you know the "i'm shocked" above was an attempt at a joke, right?

    Compared to the ones sitting in my phone right now it was rubbish :P

    a bit like mine..... :oops:
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  • jonginge
    jonginge Posts: 5,945
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    JonGinge wrote:
    Lit, you know the "i'm shocked" above was an attempt at a joke, right?

    Compared to the ones sitting in my phone right now it was rubbish :P
    I know. :oops:
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    When I first heard about it "OH NO, IT GAHZRIILLA" was my initial thought.

    But the more footage I see, the more horrifying it looks. Crazy stuff:

    http://uk.gizmodo.com/5781566/this-is-t ... e=true&s=i
    http://gizmodo.com/#!5780964/the-japan- ... /gallery/1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bQrT30 ... r_embedded

    The sheer volume of footage coming out of the country is astounding.
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Has anyone had any tsunami spam yet? I just found one in my spam folder. I fully admit to feeling shocked about that.
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,394
    notsoblue wrote:
    The sheer volume of footage coming out of the country is astounding.

    From a nation well known for going abroad and filming EVERYTHING, as well as being well known for the camera/video centreo f the world - it's not surprising.

    But to be honest, any chat I can spew out about this only seems to trivialise it.

    It's just beyond horrific.

    Some estimates are guessing over 50,000 dead.

    When you hear 2,000 bodies washed up on the shore it's just awful.

    The sheer scale of damage, trauma, death, basically any bad stuff is incomprehensible to anyone.

    All this nuclear stuff on the news, as far as I can see anyway, seems to pale in significance versus the already dead.

    But then I guess 'NUCLEAR' is a big news draw, and plays on the exagerated fears that people have about it. The dead are already dead, whereas the nuclear thing is on-going.

    It's massively sh!t, and I already feel just by writing on it I've trivialised it.
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  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    It's massively sh!t, and I already feel just by writing on it I've trivialised it.

    The twitter and facebook reaction was interesting. There was barely any mention of it in my feeds. Just the odd video.
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