19th March 2011, 03:53 PM
What ever will happen will happen. Most of it is beyond human control now.
Not sure why you're getting so excited about it GnomeKing - you sound almost as hysterical as some of the tabloid Press.
Have you read the piece in today's Financial Times? Analysis , p11.
"More than its buildings - at least the concrete ones - Japan will be forced to re-examine a nuclear industry that provides nearly one-third of its power. Partly it was Japan's sense of vulnerability, with a dependence on foreign oil and coal, that encouraged what to a layman should look like madness - siting 55 nuclear reactors on the world's most earthquake prone islands. But it was also the supreme hubris of the Japanese state, a belief that - whatever the public thought - Japanese technicians were capable of building a safe nuclear industry on such unpromising land."
So it's not just me...and as for building them on reclaimed land ...are they not truly guilty of dangerous, short sighted folly?
Not sure why you're getting so excited about it GnomeKing - you sound almost as hysterical as some of the tabloid Press.
Have you read the piece in today's Financial Times? Analysis , p11.
"More than its buildings - at least the concrete ones - Japan will be forced to re-examine a nuclear industry that provides nearly one-third of its power. Partly it was Japan's sense of vulnerability, with a dependence on foreign oil and coal, that encouraged what to a layman should look like madness - siting 55 nuclear reactors on the world's most earthquake prone islands. But it was also the supreme hubris of the Japanese state, a belief that - whatever the public thought - Japanese technicians were capable of building a safe nuclear industry on such unpromising land."
So it's not just me...and as for building them on reclaimed land ...are they not truly guilty of dangerous, short sighted folly?
Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, Merlot in one hand, Cigar in the other; body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!