Strength of humanity in crisis...

[Mr. Bloom]

I keep thinking of the people who are working on the nuclear facility.

I agree, but in a country whose manufacturing is based on robotics, I'm surprised that haven't found a way to motorized a water cannon...but it's easy to assess their approach from a sofa 9,000 miles away

[OakLeaf]

Very thoughtful reading, on the topic of the thread title:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...m-2245014.html

[PamNY]

Very thoughtful reading, on the topic of the thread title:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...m-2245014.html

That is an excellent piece; thanks. I will share that with several people.

[crazycanuck]

Perhaps puruse the IAEA site http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/...iupdate01.html

[PamNY]

I agree, but in a country whose manufacturing is based on robotics, I'm surprised that haven't found a way to motorized a water cannon...but it's easy to assess their approach from a sofa 9,000 miles away

Here's an article from Salon on that very topic.

It's lightweight, but interesting (considering it was probably written by a guy on a sofa 9,000 miles away).

[Trek420]

I agree, but in a country whose manufacturing is based on robotics, I'm surprised that haven't found a way to motorized a water cannon...but it's easy to assess their approach from a sofa 9,000 miles away

Even if they did have a 'bot part of the challenge in addition to the quake, tsunami damage the power is out .... at the power plant. So nothing to plug the 'bot into or anything else they've needed to solve the problem traditional ways.

I hear they got power back at least one of the 4 damaged plants. Now to hope the lines, infrastructure etc inside the plants still work.

[badger]

my mother is leaving for Japan on Monday for a 3 months, she bought the ticket in January. Both my brother and I have asked her to postpone leaving for a couple of weeks, but she's very fatalistic saying she can't live her life in fear. Still...

My co-worker was speaking to her friend in Tokyo. She's house bound, as they are telling people to stay indoors. I was saying I'd be leaving, but those people are stuck - stores are closed, trains aren't running, and people are lining up for hours to get gas and they're only allowed 10L.

And that footage of the dogs is just heartbreaking.

God, the tsunami was bad enough, it's just getting worse and worse.