Get off the beach! Tsunami coming!

[gertsy]

Pretty scary in Japan. Tsunami moved up rivers inland. some pretty scary video of cars trying to out run the wall of rubbish.
Aus and northern NZ sound safe.
The Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii good luck..

[gertsy]

At best these disasters will teach us to expect again what has happened before. As there will be very little good news.
It's not 20/20 hindsight anymore to presume or believe a Nuclear power station on the coast facing the "ring of fire" fault line can be made safe by conventional means.
What they could do with a high capacity seawater dam above reactor level now (no need for pumps or electricity)..  20/20 hindsight?

Thoughts and best wishes with the Japanese, and the northern hemisphere.....

[gertsy]

That 2012 thing is a hoax, there is no cosmic alignment at the winter solstice. Plus the Mayan calendar actually ended 300 years ago.
There is a small chance of Earth getting hit by a killer asteroid in 2036 however.

It's not a hoax, It's bullshit. (o:

[gertsy]

Of course! Science is a fact.

It's the idea that people stare into a little box and accept it as truth, and then those unresearched "truths" go on to be embedded into the education system, even though they were never proven as anything more than theory in the first place.

Man is so small in the grand scheme of things.

To a great extent yesterday's experts are dismissed by today's and be sure today's will be just as greatly dismissed by tomorrow's.  Change means difference/ difference means product / product mean profit.
Understanding that in the presence is wisdom.

Agree; Man (in the context of humanity) is so small in the grand scheme of things.
Especially when he or she is standing and facing muddy debri filled wall 5m high and 5 km wide moving faster then they could ever hope to run.

[gertsy]

Franko:


....Though I think the most notable and admirable thing is how they are not inclined to go looting, or taking advantage of the situation for greedy purposes.  This is markedly different from most of the rest of the world.  I think it demonstrates the Japanese sense of honor, that most of humanity does not possess.

Except when there's beer or petrol involved. Humanity abounds.