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Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Worst Case Scenario-Full Meltdown

Just dabbling in a little fear mongering.  Worst case scenario for the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in cooling towers 1 through 6 in Okuma, Japan.

The tectonic plates of the earth are floating on magma, they hold up our land and water masses.  The magma surrounds a liquid center (earth's core), spinning under incredible pressure and heat.  If any of the six generators in cooling towers, one through six, enters into full melt down, it will soon burn through the containment vessel and then through the power plant itself.  Should there be enough nuclear material to allow for a sustained fission reaction, it could conceivably burn a path to the earth's core.

The contents of the earth's core would then forcibly eject itself out of the shaft the burning nuclear material formed on the way down from its power plant.  This would create two events; the earth would slowly stop spinning but more importantly the liquid iron of the earth core would act as a "rocket engine" and push the earth either into the sun or out of orbit into the cold night of space.

Pretty scary




or just a testimony of my inadequate/misguided/ignorant understanding of geology, chemistry and physics.




Just wanted to be silly for a moment to take a quick step back from an event so horrific and sorrowful that it is simply beyond my understanding.

Do what you can (money, time, skill, labor) and pray for our brothers and sisters in Japan.

Psalm 55:5
Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tokyoflash Shinshoku-my new watch


I was surfing the Internet the other day and I started wondering if there was a way to tell time that was not an analog dial or digital number readout. Well I found it in the Tokyoflash Shinshoku. It uses a row of red LED's for hours, yellow LED's for minutes and green LED's for 15 minutes segments. It took me a little while to learn to read it quickly but in the end it warmed the Japanese Techno geek part of my heart. I got it direct from Japan and my wife made me promise that if I ever get another item from Japan I will have to go to the post office to sign the customs, deleration forms, because she will not ever do it again (took 45 min...waiting in line, postal employees finding right forms, finding the package itself and arguing about what procedures had to followed).

While I have worn the watch around off duty I so far have not quite got the gumption to wear it on duty...


A brief explanation form their site. Link: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/tokyoflash/shinshoku/ Industrially designed to make a truly individual statement, this unique time piece has become one of the most popular designs to emerge from the Tokyoflash design studio. Shinshoku's solid, continuous stainless steel band wraps comfortably around your wrist and features a matrix of punched out holes with twenty-nine super bright LEDs beneath the surface which illuminate to present the time. A single touch of the upper button animates the LEDs which then cascade across the band to present the time. Pressing the lower button skips this animation and presents the time immediately. Twelve red LEDs indicate the hour, three green LEDs indicate 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour and fourteen yellow LEDs indicate single minutes. This unique time telling method makes it easy to see the approximate time quickly, whether it's quarter past, half past or quarter to the hour whilst also telling the precise time.


"Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. " Colossians 1:29

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. " James 1:17