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Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis

Arcadius said:
Everyone realizes WWII Japanese hailed their emperor as a god, right? This generation is very different. And blaming them for anything their ancestors did is simply irrational, not to mention it just kind of makes you a complete racist ****.
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Interesting, so blaming the current generation for things past generations have done is irrational? Not saying I disagree, just, I've heard other arguments in differing contexts and wondering if you would be consistent.
 
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American said:
I made a single statement, half of which was political, and then I dropped it. I also ignored other political baiting that was directed at me, and tried to get the thread back on track. Do YOU have anything else to say? Did you even follow the thread?
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Was the comment even directed at you? Did you even read the mod's warning and who was included in it?
 
Arcadius said:
Everyone realizes WWII Japanese hailed their emperor as a god, right? This generation is very different. And blaming them for anything their ancestors did is simply irrational, not to mention it just kind of makes you a complete racist ****.
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Right. No one in this nation would ever realize the truth of the 13th Amendment being ratified in 1864....as the RACE BAITERS like Jesse Jackson and Big Al still preach to high hell about the Church of Neverending Bigotry and continually demand restitution be engaged for the SINS OF OUR FATHERS...and better still the Civil Rights Legislation was addressed over half a century ago...but you would never Know it judging by the prima facie evidence introduced as recently as Yesterday by Big Al and Jesse...hell, according to them voting to end collective bargaining for Public Service Workers is aligned with rescinding the 13th amendment.

This attitude DOES exist...both on the right and the left. I find it funny as hell when ONE SIDE attempts to lecture the other side when the hypocrisy exits up and down the political line from the far left to the far right....depending upon which TALKING POINT one might wish to address on any given day.
 
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The direction this thread took is shameful. I'd like to grab a few ears and knock a few heads together. Japan is going through one of the worst natural catastrophes in its history and people decide that's the perfect opportunity to re-fight WW2. WTF is wrong with you?? Argghhhh...

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DiAnna said:
The direction this thread took is shameful. I'd like to grab a few ears and knock a few heads together. Japan is going through one of the worst natural catastrophes in its history and people decide that's the perfect opportunity to re-fight WW2. WTF is wrong with you?? Argghhhh...

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I wish I could like this post 1000 times... the infantile ranting on this thread is disgraceful... utterly disgraceful... I live in a country that was colonized by the Japanese for half a century and people here are RUSHING TO HELP Japan... give me a break!!!
 
Mother earth is an awesome thing. My heart goes out to those caught in this quake and I am more than a tad fearful as to what could happen to make things so much worse if those reactors melt down.

Japan moving 8ft is a huge thing but I am also wondering what it means to weather patterns that the earth has moved 4 ft so quickly. I'm waiting for more information to come out on all of that.
 
ludahai said:
I wish I could like this post 1000 times... the infantile ranting on this thread is disgraceful... utterly disgraceful... I live in a country that was colonized by the Japanese for half a century and people here are RUSHING TO HELP Japan... give me a break!!!
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I think this would be a good place to say that if people want to help do this. Help donate money to Japan's recovery from the earthquake athttp://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/?rf=twtr or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10.
 
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On a serious note. Lets all have some basic humanity and show some concern for these guys.
 
ludahai said:
Someone needs to tell that to my grandpa, who served in the Pacific and is nearly 92 and fortunately, is still in the realm of the living...
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it cuts both ways. i was in japan (60's) with two bataan death march survivors. one of them would just as soon spit on a japanese person as speak to them. the other went out of his way to provide assistance to the orphanages - especially those with bi-racial children, who were outcast from japanese society
most japanese i encountered were very cordial; however, one of the very few negative encounters was being assaulted in the peace garden (ironic, eh?) at the hiroshima atomic bomb museum

and thankfully, we have lots of surviving WWII veterans. it was - it is - America's finest generation


have we come to any agreement just what shifted eight feet as a result of the quake?
 
Moderator's Warning:
The stupid WWII apology discussion is over, or I will show you what a real nuclear bomb feels like.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Moderator's Warning:
The stupid WWII apology discussion is over, or I will show you what a real nuclear bomb feels like.
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My you're being nice. I already would have been giving infractions and thread bans. Guess its a good thing I'm not a mod huh? ;) I just hope they listen to the warning this time.
 
Walter said:
The US suffers from the same possibility of a 9 plus quake. Just as in Japan is was not the 1st time such an event has occurred as such an event averages happening about every 300 years.

The US is possibly overdue but its not from the major fault on the west coast but rather the massive fault that lies in this nation's heartland. Can anyone begin to imagine the damage and loss of life that would occur if there was a repeat of the event that happened along the New Madrid fault in the early 1800s.

Its not a question of "if" but "when" this event will reoccur. Anyone that has worked in any of the construction industries where moving the earth is involved finds it easy to see the results of the last large event as huge sections of strata are now displaced and are lying almost vertical to their original position. As I said anyone that works in the Road construction or Coal industry is well aware of these geological anomalies and the evidence of just how much energy that must have been required to have shifted the earth's crust in such a violent fashion.

I simply cannot comprehend an event such as that which was witnessed in Japan happening in this nation's now Populated centers in the mid west....that fault lines lies in an area encompassing 7 very populated states with huge metropolitan areas (over 11 million people). The people who are supposed to have the collective knowledge to forecast such events inform us that it takes at least several centuries for that SPRING to wind up enough tension to release once again.....I for one hope they know what they are talking about.

New Madrid Seismic Zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I wouldn't worry about that area near as much as I would worry about major earthquakes happening around Yellowstone National Park as it is the worlds LARGEST active volcano. The caldera on that one is 45 by 30 miles. Could you imagine the devestation that such a volcano could cause world wide when you take into account all the ash that it would spew into the air? And I would imagine an 8+ earthquake could set it off.

Now please forgive me, I'm in no way trying to belittle the devastation that has happened in Japan by posting this. Just wanted to show Walter there where the real worry should be placed as far as earthquakes in the US goes.

Actually when you take it all in, we're damn lucky that we humans have survived as long as we have on this planet.
 
Kal'Stang said:
I wouldn't worry about that area near as much as I would worry about major earthquakes happening around Yellowstone National Park as it is the worlds LARGEST active volcano. The caldera on that one is 45 by 30 miles. Could you imagine the devestation that such a volcano could cause world wide when you take into account all the ash that it would spew into the air? And I would imagine an 8+ earthquake could set it off.

Now please forgive me, I'm in no way trying to belittle the devastation that has happened in Japan by posting this. Just wanted to show Walter there where the real worry should be placed as far as earthquakes in the US goes.

Actually when you take it all in, we're damn lucky that we humans have survived as long as we have on this planet.
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Except that Yellowstone has not had a event in recorded history and all the information available comes from speculation based upon prima facie evidence instead of objective recorded history. If there is ever an event in Yellowstone there will nothing left to worry about. If I am to be concerned such "worry" will be placed upon something other than "theory", which always begins with....."is BELIEVED" or "the evidence suggests"...yada, yada, yada. Yellowstone, like Hawaii, IS BELIEVED TO LIE ONTO OF AN AREA CALLED A HOTSPOT.....with the term SUPER VOLCANO an invention of the BBC used for effect. I have about as much concern for this event as I do for the BERMUDA TRIANGLE.
 
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What happened in Japan is devastating. The loss of life is certainly a saddening aspect of this double (earthquake/tsunami) catastrophic disaster. Puts the destructive nature in perspective.
Central Arkansas (around Greenbriar/Guy) has experienced approx. 700 quakes in the last 6 months, strongest measuring 4.7.
 
Redbeard said:
What happened in Japan is devastating. The loss of life is certainly a saddening aspect of this double (earthquake/tsunami) catastrophic disaster. Puts the destructive nature in perspective.
Central Arkansas (around Greenbriar/Guy) has experienced approx. 700 quakes in the last 6 months, strongest measuring 4.7.
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Right Nothing like the event in the early 1800s.
 
StillBallin75 said:
Don't think his comments were directed at you personally, he was probably just frustrated with the direction in which the thread was heading.
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No, he was responding to a mod warning directed at me personally, therefore his statement was directed at me. Totally ignorant of the my posts, and highly overstated. No excuse for it.
 
megaprogman said:
The last WWII veteran just died and people are still bitching about pearl harbor? Seriously?
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Actually it was the last WW1 veteran, the dude was 100 plus and from W. Virginia.
 
American said:
No, he was responding to a mod warning directed at me personally, therefore his statement was directed at me. Totally ignorant of the my posts, and highly overstated. No excuse for it.
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You had two mod warnings (deserved or not) so perhaps you should take it up with them. It was more a remark to the general tone of the thread, which was at that point highly distasteful...
 
Somewhat good news. I am sitting at the airport watching CNN and their correspondent in Japan said that it seems as though the power plants are not leaking given the amount of radiation they have measured thus far.
 
deltabtry said:
Actually it was the last WW1 veteran, the dude was 100 plus and from W. Virginia.
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Actually it was the last US WW1 veteran that died. There is at least 1 brit still at alive.
 
Redbeard said:
What happened in Japan is devastating. The loss of life is certainly a saddening aspect of this double (earthquake/tsunami) catastrophic disaster. Puts the destructive nature in perspective.
Central Arkansas (around Greenbriar/Guy) has experienced approx. 700 quakes in the last 6 months, strongest measuring 4.7.
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The New Madrid line in MO. has a very long history of earthquakes started recording in 1699.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/missouri/history.php
 
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