A large majority of major cities throughout history have been built in seismically active areas. There’s a good reason for this: minerals accumulate in seismically active areas and minerals equal wealth. Sometimes this wealth comes indirectly (such as being able to grow crops easily), sometimes it’s directly (as in finding chunks of gold just below the surface).
Still doesn’t explain using a decades-old reactor design that relies on constant electrical power to stop the thing from melting down and building it in an area known for earthquakes and tsunamis.
I hear ya Crow, I hear ya. Knowledge and common sense are often mutually exclusive to one-another, kinda like military intelligence. To quote a honest friend of mine – “I may be smart and know a lot, but when it comes to common sense, a lot of the time I’m pretty dumb.”
Humor is the only weapon we have to wield against the vicissitudes and calamities of life when disaster happens on this scale. Try working as a paramedic on a crash’n carry. If you don’t learn to laugh in the face of horror, you turn into a crazed, unstable alcoholic pretty quickly.
“Too soon” usually means that it’s just not easy to criticize or make fun of calamities–not that they would be less tragic, but that right now is the time to comfort, later is the time to learn from mistakes.
“they pretend to care”. Some people are a lot more uncomfortable about making light of a tragedy when the horror of it is still fresh and raw, and would rather wait until life’s getting back on track in the affected area. You disagree; a tragedy that happened last year shouldn’t be less important or real than the one everyone’s talking about today. Fine. Even so, who are you to say that everyone who processes tragedy differently than you just doesn’t really care?
From what I understand, the reactors withstood the 9.0 earthquake fairly well. it was the 70 foot high tidal wave which caused the long term loss of electrical power which led to the current mess.
What I’m saying is that the whole mess probably would have been avoided if the emergency diesel generators didn’t get dunked underwater. Which really isn’t toooo hard to prevent.
it’s common sense that common sense isn’t common at all and thereby being uncommon sense. Try say that 10 times fast backwards and it’s common sense that you’ll tie a knot on your tounge
folks, things happen and I’m not always going to wait for Leno to monologue something before I crack wise about it myself. And most of the people (mostly in the service) that I know from Japan were cracking wise about the reactors themselves. While helping search for bodies in the rubble.
Or the fourth largest Californian city virtually on top of the San Andreas fault?
Ouch!
A large majority of major cities throughout history have been built in seismically active areas. There’s a good reason for this: minerals accumulate in seismically active areas and minerals equal wealth. Sometimes this wealth comes indirectly (such as being able to grow crops easily), sometimes it’s directly (as in finding chunks of gold just below the surface).
Still doesn’t explain using a decades-old reactor design that relies on constant electrical power to stop the thing from melting down and building it in an area known for earthquakes and tsunamis.
I hear ya Crow, I hear ya. Knowledge and common sense are often mutually exclusive to one-another, kinda like military intelligence. To quote a honest friend of mine – “I may be smart and know a lot, but when it comes to common sense, a lot of the time I’m pretty dumb.”
I’ve seen the same thing.
isn’t military intelligence an oxymoron
Hence the reason military AND intelligence are mutually exclusive to eachother and not as a whole.
I usually don’t comment your comics, but this was just top notch!
I love it! Laughed my a** off!
Well, maybe this will jump start more comments!
Mmm, little too soon for this. 14K+ dead and counting, not really ripe for humor yet. I just stopped reading your comic.
I’m sorry but one comic too son is not a reason to stop reading an entire comic. I’m sure Crow didn’t mean to offend anyone or to upset.
Well, I’m not giving up on Crow, but I’ll side with Ada that it that comic certainly was enough to do so.
Hope you never find out about fark.com…..
Humor is the only weapon we have to wield against the vicissitudes and calamities of life when disaster happens on this scale. Try working as a paramedic on a crash’n carry. If you don’t learn to laugh in the face of horror, you turn into a crazed, unstable alcoholic pretty quickly.
Do you mean that if crow waited more the 14k deaths would be less tragic? Thats whats wrong with society these days, they pretend to care.
1 death is a tragedy 1000 is a statistic
“Too soon” usually means that it’s just not easy to criticize or make fun of calamities–not that they would be less tragic, but that right now is the time to comfort, later is the time to learn from mistakes.
“they pretend to care”. Some people are a lot more uncomfortable about making light of a tragedy when the horror of it is still fresh and raw, and would rather wait until life’s getting back on track in the affected area. You disagree; a tragedy that happened last year shouldn’t be less important or real than the one everyone’s talking about today. Fine. Even so, who are you to say that everyone who processes tragedy differently than you just doesn’t really care?
Some of us deal with senseless death better by making jokes, because such things remind us of our own mortality.
Maybe Ada is still too bothered by being reminded that he IS going to die some day, and it might be in a senseless death.
From what I understand, the reactors withstood the 9.0 earthquake fairly well. it was the 70 foot high tidal wave which caused the long term loss of electrical power which led to the current mess.
What I’m saying is that the whole mess probably would have been avoided if the emergency diesel generators didn’t get dunked underwater. Which really isn’t toooo hard to prevent.
Reminds me of a time we went a week without water because the water treatment plant was flooded out(it was well water) by a tropical storm.
The problem with common sense is that it isn’t all that common.
common sense? it must not be so common if nobody has it
Yeah I just don’t think this was entirely appropriate.
Common sense isn’t quite too common anymore, huh?
Common sense is the most equally distributed substance on earth. Everyone thinks they have enough.
it’s common sense that common sense isn’t common at all and thereby being uncommon sense. Try say that 10 times fast backwards and it’s common sense that you’ll tie a knot on your tounge
folks, things happen and I’m not always going to wait for Leno to monologue something before I crack wise about it myself. And most of the people (mostly in the service) that I know from Japan were cracking wise about the reactors themselves. While helping search for bodies in the rubble.
Common Sense is, of course, a misnomer – Community Education would be clearer. People often confuse Intelligence (or data) with Wisdom. But believing people can be trusted to put safety above profits is truly foolish, eh?
We always had a fusion reactor.
93 million miles away and it’s radiation still kills people….