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This is highly interesting! Things I could notice: First, wildlife just ignores radiation, also nature is quick to take back whatever we are not using. Second
by speeder 14y ago
This is highly interesting!
Things I could notice: First, wildlife just ignores radiation, also nature is quick to take back whatever we are not using.
Second, Japanese architecture is interesting, no building is ugly, both the modern ones (like the waterfront building that did not got smashed) and old ones (the traditional-looking houses). Maybe excepting schools (that are just rectangular boxes filled with windows).
Also, Japanese are very organized, even seeing debris scattered and destroyed stuff, the town still looks more organized and clean than the stuff I see here in Brazil for most part.
Good to see that someone left a message on the blackboard, making explicit how he liked the school.
Also, interesting to see that some stuff held well against the tsunami, the damaged graduation hall for example still has everything in place except where the floor collapsed, and still looking good.
The cars littering a field for some reason to me look like grazing cows.
Good vending machine that one supporting a building!
And it is dreading when I noticed that the most present animals are crows, not other sort of birds, it is like if most of life left, and death decided to remain.
This town also looks the sort of place I want to live in the future when I can (of course, without disaster...)
- Retric 14y agoThat town had negligible amounts of radiation, but this was a clear case of better safe than sorry and calling an evacuation was clearly a good idea. However, after a few weeks the area was at normal background levels, so keeping a large exclusion zone is perhaps overly cautious. One sievert carries with it a ~5.5% chance of eventually developing cancer. These places are dealing with ~0.000001 Sv per hour level which is .008sievert after 10 years which when multiplied by say 100,000 people may suggest reasonable cancer risks. However, there is a fair amount of evidence that suggests ultra low levels of radiation are significantly less harmful than that. But, it's really hard to measure small effects on large populations as there are lot's of cancer risks.
- cederberg 14y agoIt is a mistake to think that radiation is evenly distributed. Or that all radiation is equally harmful. Neither are all animals and plants affected in the same way. This is much more complex than some averaged random statistics will have you believe.
- Retric 14y agoNot that I disagree with what you said and I would even add that children, adults, and the elderly all have different cancer risks as well. But, a sievert is normalized based on harm and not the energy equivalent for any one radiation type. So, while the risks are different it is plenty useful for evaluating order of magnitude risks as in is this directly lethal, a significant cancer risk, a minor cancer risk or a negligible risk.
- guscost 14y agoI'm inclined to agree with the wildlife. Are people legally allowed to move here?
- bluedanieru 14y ago>Second, Japanese architecture is interesting, no building is ugly, both the modern ones (like the waterfront building that did not got smashed) and old ones (the traditional-looking houses). I promise you this is not true. Run-down buildings are to be had like anywhere else, and the country probably has slightly more than its share of ugly post-modern bullshit architecture. That said, the pretty stuff is really pretty, IMO.
- StavrosK 14y agoWhat surprised me is that someone left a barely used Volkswagen Beetle there and didn't even return for it...
- supahfly_remix 14y agoI noticed that, too. The owner might be dead, though.
- jonknee 14y agoWho would? It's surely insured and a new car that hasn't been flooded or doused with radiation is a lot more desirable.
- usefulcat 14y agoYou mean the one with the cement wall leaning on it?
- thejsjunky 14y ago>it is dreading when I noticed that the most present animals are crows Not necessarily a dread thing... perhaps they're karasutengu; crow spirits who live like mountain hermits and sometimes provide guidance to people. It was also the divine crow Yatagarasu who was sent from heaven to guide Emperor Jimmu to Yamato.