CNN An 8.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan

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Japan just had another Earthquake, this one a 6.6 magnitude.

Holy sh*t...........
it sucks to be Japan right now.  God help those people.

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F**k nuclear energy !

I hope you're joking.  That's an extremely immature way to react to something like this.  Accidents can happen in all kinds of power plants.  Nuclear energy still remains a relatively safe way of generating power.

Yeah, such sentiments are ridiculous.  I really hate the idiotic greenies who get their knickers in a twist anytime a nuclear power plant so much as needs a new lightbulb (and obviously no one in this thread seems to have gone that far overboard).  For all the handwaving and yelling that's going on with the plants right now, we should obviously be paying far more attention to the fossil fuel-based power plants that dot Japan and are belching out wastes that are killing far more people than these plants likely ever will (even in the event of a meltdown!).  Unfortunately, humans are wired to care more about present day contingencies than ones far in the future, a problem which not even environmentalists can overcome when they worry so much about things like this that they lose sight of the fact that nuclear power is one of the cleanest, safest, most reliable energy sources on the face of the earth today.

...whew.  That felt good to say!

Anyway, despite all that I said above, still hoping for the best in this situation.  Amazing.  Could hardly have happened to a better-prepared country, though; Japan'll pull through.

But apparently you are not, O wise one (yes, you know that I would catch this post).

O'beware ye mortal fools for no one is safe from the wrath of the Gully Foyle!

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Remember "what if the terrorists crashed a passenger jet onto a nuclear power station"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25vlt7swhCM
Granted a passenger jet is a bit bigger but considering how bulletproof it is against a jet going at 500mph+ I doubt it would have an "OH HOLY JAYSUS WERE ALL GOINA DIE" effect either.

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Alarmist much Beet and jmfsct?

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They needed our best effort last Saturday, whether they wanted it or not.

For better or worse, we're the United States of America, not the United States of Earth.  We're neither omnipotent nor omniscient and our previous administration left our country in a worse condition that when they took power because they thought they were both.

Quoted for truth.