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OtherBrotherDarryl

2011-11-01 09:32:55 AM

Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

cgraves67

2011-11-01 09:39:51 AM

I bet he's anxiously awaiting his new superpowers. I know I would be.

Sarah Palin's Conscience

2011-11-01 09:40:51 AM

OtherBrotherDarryl: Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

He turned into a God-Fearing, Family Values, Conservative Republican who endorses the Tea Party.

Sock Ruh Tease

2011-11-01 09:41:14 AM

Looks delicious.

Sarah Palin's Conscience

2011-11-01 09:41:33 AM

cgraves67: I bet he's anxiously awaiting his new superpowers. I know I would be.

The power of cancer?

pag1107

2011-11-01 09:43:16 AM

Bet he's gonna have an electric personality now.

Sybarite

2011-11-01 09:43:22 AM

You and I both know he's just trying to grow tentacles.

KarmicDisaster

2011-11-01 09:43:56 AM

It's not like you are going to die right away.

Tomji

2011-11-01 09:44:54 AM

Unfortunately that's what it takes for the idiots here and elsewhere.
This is the same method used to prove that tomatoes are save in the 18th century.
Currently radioactive fear is the more irrational of them all, I'd much prefer living next to a atomic plant then downstream from a hydro plant.

MBooda

2011-11-01 09:44:58 AM

Life imitates art...
www.dilbert.com

lenfromak

2011-11-01 09:48:07 AM

OtherBrotherDarryl: Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

He's the current governor of California.

JackalRabbit

2011-11-01 09:49:30 AM

Sarah Palin's Conscience: OtherBrotherDarryl: Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

He turned into a God-Fearing, Family Values, Conservative Republican who endorses the Tea Party.

So it was deadly afterall.

busy chillin'

2011-11-01 09:53:44 AM

Jim from Saint Paul

2011-11-01 09:54:52 AM

When he mutates, he's at least in the right country for someone to handle it.

Gleeman

2011-11-01 09:56:17 AM

What's old is new again?

ibanezdude

2011-11-01 10:00:29 AM

I hope he had some RadAway handy...

crab66

2011-11-01 10:01:03 AM

busy chillin'

Is that Modern Problems?

I watched a few minutes of that movie several weeks ago. Probably the worst thing he has ever been in.

there4igraham

2011-11-01 10:01:32 AM

Corporate Seppuku.

This guy is willing to drink contaminated water to help his company. Is that noble or sad?

Harry Freakstorm

2011-11-01 10:01:54 AM

I find it very refreshing, as if the extra isotopes are elevating the taste of the water to level that the common water consumer cannot comprehend.

There's a bit of rust. It's not too overwhelming and it brings the desired mineral flavor to the beverage. I also detect a hint. A hint, mind you of cherry blossom and a subtle hint of the sea.

I would recommend this water to your friends. It's not a water that you would serve at a meal. Rather, you want to introduce this water to your thirsty guests prior to the sit down portion of the dinner party.

Best served at room temperature. Ice really destroys the subtle flavors. Serve in small amounts to limit the experience and organ shutdown.

jagec

2011-11-01 10:05:37 AM

Tomji: Unfortunately that's what it takes for the idiots here and elsewhere.
This is the same method used to prove that tomatoes are save in the 18th century.
Currently radioactive fear is the more irrational of them all, I'd much prefer living next to a atomic plant then downstream from a hydro plant.

No, it's just stupid and doesn't prove anything. The nature of radioactivity is such that I could eat a sh*t-ton of heavily contaminated food and still smile for the cameras. But I wouldn't live through the end of the month.

Whether or not the water around Fukushima is safe to drink isn't going to be proven by a few minutes' publicity stunt.

Clemkadidlefark

2011-11-01 10:10:35 AM

" ... and so it begins ..."

3.bp.blogspot.com

Walker

2011-11-01 10:11:28 AM

Came for Asok, left satisfied.

/wait, that sounds dirty

rocketpants

2011-11-01 10:18:29 AM

Harry Freakstorm: I find it very refreshing, as if the extra isotopes are elevating the taste of the water to level that the common water consumer cannot comprehend.

There's a bit of rust. It's not too overwhelming and it brings the desired mineral flavor to the beverage. I also detect a hint. A hint, mind you of cherry blossom and a subtle hint of the sea.

I would recommend this water to your friends. It's not a water that you would serve at a meal. Rather, you want to introduce this water to your thirsty guests prior to the sit down portion of the dinner party.

Best served at room temperature. Ice really destroys the subtle flavors. Serve in small amounts to limit the experience and organ shutdown.

+1

busy chillin'

2011-11-01 10:20:39 AM

crab66
busy chillin'

Is that Modern Problems?

I watched a few minutes of that movie several weeks ago. Probably the worst thing he has ever been in.

yep and yep.

neversubmit

2011-11-01 10:24:45 AM

OtherBrotherDarryl: Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

B. T. Collins (new window) He died of a sudden heart attack that had nothing to do with the malathion (new window) he drank. Real life just isn't that cool.

Fool_Marquis

2011-11-01 10:26:04 AM

Actually, the water isn't the hazard.

Hi, NRC.

H2O isn't good at holding radiation. At worst, you get Deuterium, (heavy water) which is, yeah, safe.

It's all the tiny impurities IN the water that you have to worry about.

SO, if they took that sample of fluid from the reactor, ran it through a distillation machine (it boils water to evaporate it, then collects the steam and cools it back into water, leaving impurities behind) and poured the resulting pure distilled water into a glass, then yes, it's safe to drink.

brainfondle

2011-11-01 10:28:01 AM

Ah, the old "drink contaminated water to dupe the public" trick. Worked great back in '59:

"Chisso's president Kiichi Yoshioka drank a glass of water supposedly treated through the Cyclator to demonstrate that it was safe... Testimony at a later Niigata Minamata disease trial proved that Chisso knew the Cyclator to be completely ineffective: '...the purification tank was installed as a social solution and did nothing to remove organic mercury.

The deception was successful and almost all parties involved in Minamata disease were duped into believing that the factory's wastewater had been made safe from December 1959 on."

See Minamata Disease.

dready zim

2011-11-01 10:33:05 AM

Wake me when a SCIENTIST is willing to drink the stuff...

neversubmit

2011-11-01 10:34:01 AM

KarmicDisaster: It's not like you are going to die right away.

Radiation therapy (new window) to the head and neck region was used in 1940-1960 for treatment of a variety of benign and not cancerous illness. This has shown to be the leading cause of thyroid cancer. The time frame from radiation to development of cancer is 10-30 years.

I am the only person I know that thinks in terms of decades and centuries... and so on.

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves

2011-11-01 10:35:47 AM

brainfondle: Ah, the old "drink contaminated water to dupe the public" trick. Worked great back in '59:

"Chisso's president Kiichi Yoshioka drank a glass of water supposedly treated through the Cyclator to demonstrate that it was safe... Testimony at a later Niigata Minamata disease trial proved that Chisso knew the Cyclator to be completely ineffective: '...the purification tank was installed as a social solution and did nothing to remove organic mercury.

The deception was successful and almost all parties involved in Minamata disease were duped into believing that the factory's wastewater had been made safe from December 1959 on."

See Minamata Disease.

Yep. Most of their seafood is still toxic since mercury builds up in the fat.

studebaker hoch

2011-11-01 10:35:52 AM

Busy, but not precocious.

Farkosaurus Rex

2011-11-01 10:37:04 AM

Ringshadow

2011-11-01 10:43:15 AM

*wobbles into thread, looks around, faceplants into floor and falls asleep*

/oh hai guise
//why yes im still on outage right now

rfronk

2011-11-01 10:46:40 AM

Most people would be surprised with how resilient the human body is against radiation. Your skin is capable of taking a tremendous pounding from external sources and even if an incident particle makes it into your internal organs or bones, not much damage takes place because often the particle has too much energy to effectively cause a lot of harm.

All of that goes right out the window when you ingest a radioactive source. It's the short ranged high-energy crap that your skin would otherwise take care of that does most of the damage.

MBooda

2011-11-01 10:54:27 AM

rfronk: Most people would be surprised with how resilient the human body is against radiation. Your skin is capable of taking a tremendous pounding from external sources and even if an incident particle makes it into your internal organs or bones, not much damage takes place because often the particle has too much energy to effectively cause a lot of harm.

Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year.
cdn.crooksandliars.com

/they ought to have them, too

baronvonzipper

2011-11-01 10:59:58 AM

MBooda: rfronk: Most people would be surprised with how resilient the human body is against radiation. Your skin is capable of taking a tremendous pounding from external sources and even if an incident particle makes it into your internal organs or bones, not much damage takes place because often the particle has too much energy to effectively cause a lot of harm.

Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year.
[cdn.crooksandliars.com image 460x380]
/they ought to have them, too

Came for the Repo Man, definitely satisfied

Zombie Eater

2011-11-01 11:07:06 AM

busy chillin': [www.findmall.com image 320x194]

"HAHAHAHAH! I LIKE IT!"

Japan is about to get a lot more awesome.

www.neo-geo.com

Committee_For_Aesthetic_Deletions

2011-11-01 11:38:36 AM

Admiral Rickover did it first. (new window)

OtherBrotherDarryl

2011-11-01 11:55:36 AM

neversubmit: OtherBrotherDarryl: Makes me wonder about the politician in LA who drank a glass of the stuff they were spraying trees with back in the 90s...what ever happened to him?

B. T. Collins (new window) He died of a sudden heart attack that had nothing to do with the malathion (new window) he drank. Real life just isn't that cool.

That's the guy. Thanks.

owlywowly

2011-11-01 01:20:42 PM

this guys is watching WAY too many Japanese commercials!

Plutonium Boy! (new window)

owlywowly

2011-11-01 01:22:46 PM

oops:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pd5HfmmTZo

The-Brain

2011-11-01 02:32:41 PM

No problem.

images3.wikia.nocookie.net

nastro

2011-11-01 03:10:26 PM

Aidan

2011-11-01 03:18:23 PM

Committee_For_Aesthetic_Deletions: Ricko

Came here to say this.

*fist bump*

Captain Steroid

2011-11-01 03:46:51 PM

Today's headline: "Japan lawmaker drinks water from Fukushima plant."

Tomorrow's headline: "Radioactive Zombies Besiege Japan!"

Tomji

2011-11-01 04:39:06 PM

jagec: Tomji: Unfortunately that's what it takes for the idiots here and elsewhere.
This is the same method used to prove that tomatoes are save in the 18th century.
Currently radioactive fear is the more irrational of them all, I'd much prefer living next to a atomic plant then downstream from a hydro plant.

No, it's just stupid and doesn't prove anything. The nature of radioactivity is such that I could eat a sh*t-ton of heavily contaminated food and still smile for the cameras. But I wouldn't live through the end of the month.

Whether or not the water around Fukushima is safe to drink isn't going to be proven by a few minutes' publicity stunt.

The point is that there is no radioactive material in that water. However meat heads do no believe the science and say proof it by drinking it. Look, Fukushima is under control but a large percentage of the population wants it to be a "huge catastrophe" that will take "centuries" to clean up. I am sorry that this fantasy is not the truth of very little long term effects.
In this regard, eat shiat swiss and german morons, thanks for polluting our seas some more with your coal born mercury in the near future.

Jynxed

2011-11-01 09:38:45 PM

"It's either you drink the water or commit sepuku."

Swiftstone2012

2011-11-01 11:59:25 PM

Coming from a man nurtured in a culture that has traditionally condoned apology by way of assisted suicide, this means almost nothing. Committing radioactive Seppuku in front of the cameras does not make that water safe. It just makes the guy a sucker.

Did they get a randomly selected Geiger Counter that is first tested, then passed over the glass of water in front of the cameras before he drank it, for instance? No, I daresay likely not. Mere theatrics.

This IS of course assuming the glass contained anything but ordinary tap water in the first place.

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