They are maybe going to record it as a 9.0 which would put it joint 5th of worst ever since records began.

At least they had a warning system in place or the number of victims would be much higher such as the Sumatra boxing day one when there was zero warning

news on tv is depressing the **** out of me


and why do they only show the damn earthquake?


yeah, another nuclear reactor is about to meltdown and all the radiation levels in tokyo went sky-high, but I dont care godamnit, I want to watch my drama

they just announced on the news theres a high chance one of the reactors is going to meltdown


this is starting to actually worry me

****, there was a level 7 earthquake right where my mom lives, I tried calling but the phones are still down

time for kil to start looking like the freaks from hills have eyes....

you need more nailbats imo and maybe a geiger counter.

I looked up zombie deterrent and this came up. Print it, stick it to your door. You can thank me later.

a block of 46 practice questions

ah ok, why 46? Is that the length of the blocks on the actual step 1 exam? (Yeah I should probably know this stuff lol).

haha yup, 7 blocks of 46 questions each.

Good to know heh. FWIW I did 80 quesitons yesterday and it took ~7 hours to get through them, so 3.5 blocks (i.e. 161 questions) might take a while. I probably go a bit slower because i take notes and read through FA after every other question or so.

yah, i spend about 1.5 hours per block total now that i've already done em all so i don't really have to take notes on em anymore...just get mad at myself for missing questions. so 6 hours a day on questions and 4-6 hours of reading books. gonna be a long few weeks.

Huh, I mean I've already read through FA and Goljan and already done practice questions for every subject, YET I still see facts/random **** that I didn't know that's not in any of those resources. Do you really not see any new info during your practice questions? If so kudos.

For Example, this was a question I got yesterday where I had no idea wtf they were talking about (re: latitude dependence of MS risk), and I've studied neuro (and MS specifically) a lot and done a lot of questions on those topics too:

really happy i didn't go to med school lol.

When it comes to disaster problem solving, it appears that Japanese politicians are as helpful in the advice department as their American counterparts "stay inside - wiped down your house with wet cloth - take shower when you come in."

give me a fuc.kin.g break

I knew the answer! (my mother has MS)

Well it is not they really do anything now. You can not evacuate a 30 Million city like Tokyo, so you need to try to avoid any radioactive incorporation
as much as possible.

i meant more so that i wrote down everythign the first time i did all the questions and didnt know something. going through the same 2k questions a second time, i should have already written down the notes from them. i spent a lot more time on questions earlier than i have been lately for this reason.


edit: im sitting with a few people and read them the question. everyone but me knew the right answer. looks like ive got a lot of work to do.

Wow - if you want to see the worst 5 minutes of comedy EVAR, check out the Situation on the Roast of Donald Trump. Never seen anyone bomb that bad.

two things....


the situation with the nuclear power plants are alarming at best.


they have 2 on the verge on meltdown, the third one just exploded, and they cant get close to the fourth one because the other 3 are putting out so much radiation that they cant even get close to it.



My mom is a nuclear engineer, btw, and I asked her opinion on it. Apparently the Japanese government is giving out less information than they should be about the whole thing, they dont want to worry the general population about a nuclear holocaust type situation near the Tokyo area. But things are bad.

Apparently out of about 800 experts on nuclear energy, they appointed 50 to actually get close to the nuclear power plants. These 50 people are apparently heavily geared, which isnt nearly enough to protect themselves from the massive radiation. Basically these 50 people are shortening their lifespans greatly by getting close to the reactors.


She said theres nothing you can do at this point in the terms of the nuclear reactor melting down. The only thing you can do is cool it down in time enough contain it. If it melts down it will basically melt into the ground, and just keep going closer to the center of the earth.

This **** is worrying me, makes me not be able to sleep.

Second thing.


I applied for a translation job at an I.T company, despite my ****ty resume I got a job interview this week.

WOOOOOOO

kil, I watched this video earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxzQPiy_U1M and it seemed to have some good info on what is happening at fukushima.

obv i'm no expert and the japanese authorities have recently invoked some obscure rule that requires all lower officials to stay silent on the matter, so there is less info available atm, but I have been reading a lot about this story since friday. apparently after the quake they were able to shut down the reactors so they are no longer active. the problem is that it takes incredible amounts of time for the fuel to cool after it is shut off and it must be submerged in water/coolant at all times. the problem came about when they couldn't pump coolant/water into the reactors after the tsunami because the backup power generators were not functioning correctly. they also store what is called "spent fuel" at the site, which is I guess already used up nuclear fuel. this spent fuel requires incredible amounts of time to cool as well. the recent problem with the radiation from what I have read has occured because the water/coolant covering the spent fuel reached too low of a level and the spent fuel was exposed to the air, which allowed the radiation to escape into the atmosphere. when the spent fuel is exposed it also reheats and this has been the source of the fires. obv it's all speculative and impossible to know because the true facts are not available, but many people I have read say that the risk of meltdown is still relatively low since the reactors have been shut off and the metal casing is still mostly surrounding the nuclear fuel. the radiation should subside once (if?) they are able to recover the fuel with seawater and restart the cooling process.

I also read a bit about chernobyl today and apparently that was way worse than this disaster. at chernobyl they ****ed up so hard that the reactor completely exploded and like 30+ tons of nuclear material was spewed into the atmosphere. they didn't even really fix it that well. they just build a concrete tomb to house the destroyed reactor and evacuated a 30km radius of the area. the article I read said that people can not inhabit that place and grow crops for probably another 20,000 yrs. so wild.

actually they announced the chancing of the reactors, number one and number 2 melting down are relatively high.
70% and 30% i think the chances were


basically they are not only exposed to the air, they cannot cool them down properly. Theres too much radiation to have helicopters drop water like a forest fire, and they are simply spraying them with fire hosing with a distance.
Again, they must both cool down the reactors and replace the metal housing theyre in, which is not easy to do since anyone that comes within a certain distance, suit or not, get exposes to huge amounts of radiation.