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Japan's crisis: one month later

40 points by Dramatize 16y ago

Create 16y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom....
makmanalp 16y ago
unrelated: j/k for up and down?! I never thought I'd see vim shortcuts at boston.com of all places. J Random Hacker must be working there.
- woodall 16y ago
  http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9shi9/i_am_the_editor_of_the_big_picture_blog_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9shi9/i_am_the_editor_...
  - joshmaker 16y ago
    As an FYI, the creator for The Big Picture now works for The Atlantic and did a very similar photo gallery several days earlier: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-one-month-later/100041/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-...
    - woodall 16y ago
      TIL! It does look almost exactly alike, and most of the keyboard shortcuts work in about the same way. I cannot judge the picture quality, but they both look very nice!
    - makmanalp 16y ago
      You can even choose 1280! Gorgeous!
serichsen 16y ago
... and still no deaths from radiation.
- hammock 16y ago
  It would be wise to remember that many of the acute radiation deaths at Chernobyl did not occur until many weeks after the accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_dis... It's also too bad that the Japanese fish supply will be poisoned for a long time.
  - samfoo 16y ago
    Some 14 thousand people have died due to the earthquake and tsunami directly. Zero confirmed deaths due to radiation. There very well may be deaths in the future, but I think it's astronomically unlikely they'll even approach two orders of magnitude of those caused by the quake. Of coure there are ramifications from the nuclear plant problems. Are they even remotely close to the scale of problems caused by the earthquake? Good lord, no. The focus in the media on the reactor is criminally unethical in my opinion. It just adds to the populist echo chamber that nuclear is bad (no matter what) without any context or perspective at all and without any education.
    - afterburner 16y ago
      I find that when the full extent of the costs, including the massive liability, are laid out, nuclear looks very unattractive. I don't find therefore that the conclusions being reached are wrong.
      - guygurari 16y ago
        Care to elaborate? I haven't seen such calculations.
        afterburner 16y ago
iwjames 16y ago
This is some incredible photojournalism. Very eye opening. Thanks for sharing.
jamesteow 16y ago
Whoa. #17: Green for down and red for up?
- afterburner 16y ago
  That is probably the single most amazing thing I will learn today. Maybe this week.
- bdhe 16y ago
  The Japanese associate red with optimism (the rising sun) among a lot of other positive things.

40 points by Dramatize 16y ago

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2011/03/a_is_for_atom....

makmanalp 16y ago

unrelated: j/k for up and down?! I never thought I'd see vim shortcuts at boston.com of all places. J Random Hacker must be working there.

woodall 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9shi9/i_am_the_editor_of_the_big_picture_blog_on/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9shi9/i_am_the_editor_...
- joshmaker 16y ago
  As an FYI, the creator for The Big Picture now works for The Atlantic and did a very similar photo gallery several days earlier: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-one-month-later/100041/ http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/04/japan-earthquake-...
  - woodall 16y ago
    TIL! It does look almost exactly alike, and most of the keyboard shortcuts work in about the same way. I cannot judge the picture quality, but they both look very nice!
  - makmanalp 16y ago
    You can even choose 1280! Gorgeous!

serichsen 16y ago

... and still no deaths from radiation.

hammock 16y ago
It would be wise to remember that many of the acute radiation deaths at Chernobyl did not occur until many weeks after the accident. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_disaster http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_dis... It's also too bad that the Japanese fish supply will be poisoned for a long time.
- samfoo 16y ago
  Some 14 thousand people have died due to the earthquake and tsunami directly. Zero confirmed deaths due to radiation. There very well may be deaths in the future, but I think it's astronomically unlikely they'll even approach two orders of magnitude of those caused by the quake. Of coure there are ramifications from the nuclear plant problems. Are they even remotely close to the scale of problems caused by the earthquake? Good lord, no. The focus in the media on the reactor is criminally unethical in my opinion. It just adds to the populist echo chamber that nuclear is bad (no matter what) without any context or perspective at all and without any education.
  - afterburner 16y ago
    I find that when the full extent of the costs, including the massive liability, are laid out, nuclear looks very unattractive. I don't find therefore that the conclusions being reached are wrong.
    - guygurari 16y ago
      Care to elaborate? I haven't seen such calculations.
      - afterburner 16y ago

iwjames 16y ago

This is some incredible photojournalism. Very eye opening. Thanks for sharing.

jamesteow 16y ago

Whoa. #17: Green for down and red for up?

afterburner 16y ago
That is probably the single most amazing thing I will learn today. Maybe this week.
bdhe 16y ago
The Japanese associate red with optimism (the rising sun) among a lot of other positive things.