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DH said that it was eerie watching the 70 meter concrete pump dance around during the 7.0 quake. I am hoping to talk to him soon.
I hope that he can do all his work there from no closer than Tokyo. I have a lot of respect for him and others who are working to stop this disaster. It is starting to make the BP Gulf Oil spill look like spilled milk. I'm furious that they are handing out drilling permits again with essentially NO CHANGE to disaster response procedures. We're all getting a bit too greedy when our technologies for obtaining power (nuclear, coal, oil...) exceed our abilities to do so safely. Time for the companies to seriously reinvest some of those major profits into safer technologies.
I'm off too bed. DH is pacing. He hates when I go to bed after him, but I need my computer time to decompress.
Goodnight Night Crew! Looking forward to reading your posts in the A.M.
It is the same way here when DH is home, but I did finally teach him that he could go to bed without me. When he is home I too need the computer time to decompress. There have been times when it is almost like taking shifts in the bed. Of course it doesn't help that the pack of dogs, think that they can sleep in the bed with us. (my fault entirely) But the bed is only a queen size (entirely his fault), and there often isn't enough room left for the mom to get into the bed, let alone completely under the blankets.
As for Japan and the nuclear disaster, as far as I can tell it is worse than Chernobyl. The government in Japan just hasn't admitted yet. The only thing that can be done with the reactor is cover it with concrete. They are working on a way to prevent the pump operator from having to commit suicide, by operating the pump. If I remember correctly the operator of the pump at Chernobyl died of radiation sickness. He knew that he would die, but still did the job, to save others. The bad part is that Chernobyl is still happening. There is still so much that is not known about controlling nuclear fusion. I don't think that they will be able to fix this reactor either. At least not in my life time.
I have to stop worrying about it, because there isn't much that I can do to stop what's happening. The fact is that no one can live forever, at this point in time. So I am not sure I care about what I will die of. It will happen; I just hope that it isn't very soon. I still have too many things yet to do in this life.
DH said that it was eerie watching the 70 meter concrete pump dance around during the 7.0 quake. I am hoping to talk to him soon.
I hope that he can do all his work there from no closer than Tokyo. I have a lot of respect for him and others who are working to stop this disaster. It is starting to make the BP Gulf Oil spill look like spilled milk. I'm furious that they are handing out drilling permits again with essentially NO CHANGE to disaster response procedures. We're all getting a bit too greedy when our technologies for obtaining power (nuclear, coal, oil...) exceed our abilities to do so safely. Time for the companies to seriously reinvest some of those major profits into safer technologies.
I'm off too bed. DH is pacing. He hates when I go to bed after him, but I need my computer time to decompress.
Goodnight Night Crew! Looking forward to reading your posts in the A.M.
It is the same way here when DH is home, but I did finally teach him that he could go to bed without me. When he is home I too need the computer time to decompress. There have been times when it is almost like taking shifts in the bed. Of course it doesn't help that the pack of dogs, think that they can sleep in the bed with us. (my fault entirely) But the bed is only a queen size (entirely his fault), and there often isn't enough room left for the mom to get into the bed, let alone completely under the blankets.
As for Japan and the nuclear disaster, as far as I can tell it is worse than Chernobyl. The government in Japan just hasn't admitted yet. The only thing that can be done with the reactor is cover it with concrete. They are working on a way to prevent the pump operator from having to commit suicide, by operating the pump. If I remember correctly the operator of the pump at Chernobyl died of radiation sickness. He knew that he would die, but still did the job, to save others. The bad part is that Chernobyl is still happening. There is still so much that is not known about controlling nuclear fusion. I don't think that they will be able to fix this reactor either. At least not in my life time.
I have to stop worrying about it, because there isn't much that I can do to stop what's happening. The fact is that no one can live forever, at this point in time. So I am not sure I care about what I will die of. It will happen; I just hope that it isn't very soon. I still have too many things yet to do in this life.
