Message from @VexenX
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I mean it's also a H I G H Q U A L I T Y P N G
We both got it from Snopes
But I went to Google images
It's a pity there aren't more people to try and argue against the two identical images.
That could've been pretty entertaining.
They probably aren't actually identicle
XD
Mine is a png
Proof
The pixel... over there!
One is 0xFFFFFF and that SAME pixel on the other image is 0xFFFFFE!
It's CLEARLY DIFFERENT! XD
here's something you might enjoy, then
```One of the main points they kept being alarmed about was that Fukushima was dumping 300 US tons of radwater into the PO every day.
After a bit of digging around, it would seem that the Pacific Ocean contains roughly 638,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg of water. After converting that to US tons and rounding down to zero, I got about 703,000,000,000,000,000 tons.```
```Regardless, does this mean that it would take over two quadrillion days for the entire tonnage of the Pacific Ocean to be replaced with water that has passed through the reactor?
In which case, all of the red flags I had at the very beginning seem somewhat justified, and these people are using the "300 tons per day" to sound scary, because 300 tons seems like a lot to Joe Average```
Spooky Nuclear
```If they are cycling water through the waste cooling pools at Fukushima at a total rate of 272 tonnes per day (which comes down to about 3.15 litres per second so that's actually a reasonable figure at least), it would take about 2.38e15 days to cycle the entire volume of the Pacific Ocean at that speed. This is about 6.516e12 years... or 6,516 billion years.
Considering the age of the universe is about 13.7 billion years, the age of Earth about 4.5 billion years, and Earth probably staying habitable for only 500 million years or so (give or take some millions of years) from now, I would say there is no reason to worry about the entire Pacific ocean getting "cycled through" Fukushima plant.```
six thousand billion years 🤣
There is one thing I remind myself of.
well yeah, the whole point is how ridiculous the alarmism about Fukushima has been
I've always been fascinated by how chernobyl turned out.
Not to say that everything is fine and dandy, but people predicting a nuclear holocaust in the Pacific might be overreaching just a tad
Hmmm. I just had that stashed in my mental scare closet for ... how long now?
XD
Oh yeah.
I was more concerned about contamination of food sources.
someone in the thread mentioned that
```Direct radiation exposure isn't the risk, the risk is to fish. The primary risk of exposure to people is eating fish that have absorbed large amounts of radioisotopes.
But as noted, seawater is pretty radioactive already. Both naturally and due to lingering isotopes from atomic testing. Cesium (134 and 137) release is a problem with Fukushima as they are pretty long lived, but it's not a huge one.
The 300 tons figure is contaminated water, if I recall correctly we are talking milligrams or less of actual radioisotope release per day. I can't seem to find an article I read giving a release activity in Becquerels, but if someone knows I can calculate a mass estimate.```
Though it seems to be a valid concern, apparently there is already more radiation than I was previously aware of. I was aware of some, as well as pools of mercury, but it seems like it was already higher than I Was aware of.
And yes, Chernobyl has always been fascinating to me
Some of the apparent mutations seem interesting, like the larger wolves and such.
I think he did a few on Fukushima
There is some jackass who posted in the reddit under your name! Better fight 'em! XD
j/k
So I packed my car...
I'm basically ready to drive to my new home.
with weed