vgabndo
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Latest NOAA projections of Japan tsunami debris distribution.
It looks like the Viscaino "hook" is the southern limit based on wind and current data.
http://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/images/gnomegraphic.jpg
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That's a great link... I see a trip to MALARRIMO BEACH in the future! Malarrimo (Bad to get near) may be a good name if the radiation levels are above
normal, eh?
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Bob H
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
That's a great link... I see a trip to MALARRIMO BEACH in the future! Malarrimo (Bad to get near) may be a good name if the radiation levels are above
normal, eh? |
I'm there with you in Malarrimo Beach when the stuff gets there! Let's do it!
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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So, 30% of 5 millions tons of 'stuff' will wash up on how many miles of shoreline? 70% of the 'stuff' sank just off the shore of Japan.
Interesting article.
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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I don't know if I would touch any of the stuff that came from Japan recently, unless I have a geiger counter.
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Very interesting..............
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Flotsam
Maybe you can find a Toyota washed up on the beach!!!!
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most of the crap is scrap lumber that might be able to be dried (yeah, right!) and used as building material. maybe some tires, bottles, etc.... very
little usable stuff will have survived the trek across the north pacific during the winter storms......
just more trash that will take decades to decompose.
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That is a very accurate assessment Woody
| Quote: | Originally posted by woody with a view
most of the crap is scrap lumber that might be able to be dried (yeah, right!) and used as building material. maybe some tires, bottles, etc.... very
little usable stuff will have survived the trek across the north pacific during the winter storms......
just more trash that will take decades to decompose. |
Any things of value will be few and far between
not worth the effort (or possible exposure)
And, I know about exposure,
my ship, the USS Boxer, was the flagship for the Bikini and Eniwitok atomic tests in 1958- some years later I got colon cancer.
Any connection there, Uncle Sam???
Duhhhhhhh
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My gramps was a crew chief during the tests over Kwajalien. he didn't last long enough to get cancer.
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vgabndo
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I don't think I'd be too worried about the debris being any more radioactive than the waters that carry it here. The planet has taken a tremendous
poisoning. There must be a map of that plume.
Edit for YUP.
http://survivaljapan.wordpress.com/2011/10/01/extent-of-paci...
[Edited on 8-13-2012 by vgabndo]
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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