What Was Japan's Backup Plan?

W T Chucha?

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/08/24/Huge-wall-will-protect-New-Orleans/UPI-92201282659423/

True, also keep in mind that the point isn't to protect from a tsunami, it is to protect from flood surges due to hurricanes. Which are just mildly different.

This, so much.

Why can't someone build everything so that I am perfectly safe no matter what? I mean, in this day and age, there's no reason to have anything be anything less than absolute perfection. Think about it: they're rich - they can afford it. It just makes sense.

Really, the Earth has been sitting around in more or less it's present state for millions of years, and Japan is not that big of a place. I mean, with all of our engineering prowess, it really shouldn't be hard to make a building strong enough to hold completely still while the island moves underneath, right? And tsunamis? IT'S FREAKING WATER. IT'S SOFT AS ***. C'mon, that part is a joke.

Are we the only two people here that care about the lives of others??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-xByLqJx8

here is somthing that can be built on every shore on the planet to protect poeple.

This is the largest earthquake to ever strike Japan, and the 4th largest in recorded human history. Followed by a 30' tsunami that was also 7 times larger than anything the country had ever seen.

Both slammed directly into a nuclear power facility, and the thing stayed up. The reactor scrammed correctly. The backup generators kicked in. When the backup generators were swamped, the tertiary backups kicked in. Then they trucked in fourth-level backups. Then they fell back to the fifth level venting system, the sixth level containment pool, the 7th level containment housing...

They had a "backup plan." Something like a dozen *#$ing layers of them. And so far, there hasn't been a significant release of radiation or any significant danger to millions of people.

And if the Japanese people aren't panicking, (and they're not), I would suggest we lay off the blame when it doesn't effect us in any way and they don't really want our help, either.

i don't even ....

That post probably has more thought put into it than all of your posts in this thread combined.

Go be a humanitarian out in the real world. Since you clearly care so much more than anyone, anywhere, ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF-xByLqJx8

somthing like this could have been built into the reactors but i gues that would have cost too much

No. Why? You are protecting from the changes in tides. When you get rapid changes above the threshold of the design, the design fails. When that happens, it will break at the junctions (at least).

You have to consider:
1. Rate of change
2. Magnitude of change

Let alone center of gravity/mass.

Do you understand what this video is?

Let alone the fact when a Tsunami rushes at the floating cities and such, and the water crashes into them, the buildings/apartments/etc will just topple into the ocean and be lost forever...

Let's making floating nuclear reactors... That's a brilliant idea!

Yeah! But why stop there, might as well make a mini airport to ferry stuff in and out for the workers! Hmm, terrorists might attack, lets add some guns! Well we've gone this far, lets put so soldiers on board too, in case we need them. Hell it has an airport, lets put some fighter jets on it too! Radar? Sure. Maybe a mini hospital for the workers and soldiers!

Lol aircraft carriers

in all honestly the nuclear reactor had way more redundancies than needed. just be thankful it was designed to be above and beyond and didn't only meet bare minimum requirements.

I thought with the help of mother nature, Japan had just succeded in making these

Eff it, lets all live on aircraft carriers, and use the natural disaster land for growing stuff.

Nabis's hat must be pulled too low over his fat head for the information Jaerik just dropped on him to sink in.











*edit* forgot a o in to.

Lol'd

Holy. Mother of God.

It LIVES!

Sometimes I don't think you think before you post*

And I agree with you, Nabis you provide much lols.