JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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Farmboy
Heda Madness,
The amount of 57 microsieverts is really high, and if people are excited about that, they are correct in being that way. It's a dangerous level of radioactivity. My point with the video(s) is that this area has had usual readings before, so that there may be some link between the two events. I don't know what caused either reading, but come on, it's 57 microsieverts! That's not a small amount in anyone's playbook, even if you live one meter above the ground.
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
Any opinions or guesses what could generate that kind of reading?
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
Sorry, my mistake. Micro, not millisieverts, but it's 57, not 5.7.
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
Really, 5.7 millisieverts is high. 57 millisieverts is enormous. Maybe somebody has a nice fuel rod collection or something.
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
The poor guy clearly needs underwear, and Christmas is right around the corner. We should all just chip in and buy him some so he doesn't need to steal...
Posted in: Tochigi man busted for stealing school girls' uniforms, underwear in 3 prefectures
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Farmboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEeuIOy8lBI
I remember that back in June, there were quite a few of these videos coming from Kashiwa. The reading was not 57.5, but it was about half that, and a Fukushima connection doesn't seem that unlikely.
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
The radium paint thing won't work twice. I'm going with uranium marbles this time, or maybe an old vaseline glass factory.
Posted in: Radiation hotspot found in residential Chiba
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Farmboy
Yes, well, the dollar looks weak, and the yen looks better, so the money is tending to go out of the dollar and into the yen. I don't think it's so speculative, though....more of a fundamental assessment of risk.
Posted in: Japan to take 'decisive action' against yen's rise: report
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Farmboy
I think a hand-clapping robot would be nice. One could give speeches, and really feel that one's message was well-received. Human's always seem to show evidence of boredom, and they are much harder to program. I expect governments all over the world to buy these things for gala events. They could be rented to end parties in Japan as well. ClapClapClap ClapClapClap ClapClapClap Clap
Posted in: Tokyo tech fair opens with clapping robot
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Farmboy
It beats "pahpaw" and "mahmaw," common in parts of the U.S.
Posted in: Japan's ear-cleaning salons offer childhood fantasy
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Farmboy
It's certainly an interesting custom, and yes, couples seem to find this romantic. Personally, though, I don't think I can manage to overcome my early training not to stick anything larger than one's elbow into one's ear, and I'm afraid I can't lose myself in the culture enough to find any of this enjoyable, so the salon will have to thrive without me. I will say, though, that earpicks topped with the seven gods of good fortune do make nice omiyage: "Guess what these are!"
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Farmboy
If I get sick someday, I'd really prefer not to be stabbed, no matter how old the stabber happens to be. I can't imagine the woman in question preferred this either. Even if one supports euthanasia for serious illnesses, this is hardly the way to go about it.
Posted in: 19-year-old man stabs 44-year-old lover in 'mercy killing'
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Farmboy
I think it's good to give the books back whether or not this improves relations. They certainly do not belong to Japan, and this is the right thing to do in any case.
Posted in: Noda returns looted royal Korean books to Seoul
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Farmboy
Interesting that none of the accusations say anything about the quality of the care he offered.
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Farmboy
If China sold all the U.S. Treasuries they've invested in all at once right now, the U.S. economy would collapse, and we would have ourselves to blame for that situation. The "tough on China" policy is a bit ridiculous considering how easily it could backfire, and I think we need to be in a lot stronger financial position before we start with this kind of thing. Putting pressure on other countries has its place at various times, but the timing is off here, in my opinion.
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Farmboy
Himajin,
Maybe that's it. Still, they originally found the radiation outside, and only looked inside the house after that, didn't they? Did the bottles leak? Was the fence painted with radium paint? Is the radiation on the leaves from a different source? I just don't see, so far, how they were able to find these bottles at all by searching out in the yard near the street.
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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Farmboy
So I'm still puzzled. How did the radiation from bottles under the floorboards of a house manage to get into the tree leaves?
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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Farmboy
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/10/13/2452260/tokyo-radiation-hotspot-linked.html
Sorry. Try again with this link.
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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Farmboy
<www.miamiherald.com%2F2011%2F10%2F13%2F2452260>
As mentioned above, the conjecture seems to be that it's radium. What seems weird is that the hotspot was not originally reported as being found near a street, so either these things leaked out or the level of radioactivity must be huge. Something is odd about this.
Posted in: Radiation likely came from radium in bottles beneath floor of empty house
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Farmboy
Little kids often think that if they cover their eyes, nobody can see them. This may be the same kind of idea - no geiger, no radiation. Problem solved!
Posted in: Stringent tests planned to map radiation spread after hotspot found in Setagaya