Radioactive Flotsam Heading for Left Coast

By Sunday July 10, 2011

I think the time to address this is now…..but, I won’t hold my breath.



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  1. Sister Mary Hand Grenade of Quiet Reflection says:
    7/10/2011 at 10:04 am

    You know we’ll see some weird stuff on eBay.

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  2. Animby says:
    7/10/2011 at 10:06 am

    I’m sure I read that most of this stuff would be joining the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

    In any case, it’s doubtful any of the flotsam would be radioactive. Any brief exposure to “fallout” would have washed off long ago.

    Clearly a case of FUD.

    However, when it hits our shores, I think we should impose an import tax.

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  3. Yankinwaoz says:
    7/10/2011 at 11:03 am

    I call BS.. #2 has it right.

    It is headed for the middle of the Pacific. It it will take a while to get there.And yes, on the way past North America since it is a clockwise loop. I doubt we will have radioactive anything wash up on our beaches.

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  4. Publius says:
    7/10/2011 at 11:16 am

    There’s no way radioactive trash will wash up in California because I said so.

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  5. bobbo, words have a meaning and a context says:
    7/10/2011 at 11:42 am

    “I think the time to address this is now…..but, I won’t hold my breath.” /// We will address this issue as we always have: ignore it.

    The image in my mind is that the ocean is sitting there like that lake in Africa. Going alone just fine, beautiful, feeding the people around it…..then…..it upchucks a cloud of toxic gas that is constantly building up in its nether regions. I don’t think the ocean is going to belch gas, but its going to stop feeding the people around it.

    Imagine: all our food being grown in buildings. No soil. No ocean. Organically grown carbon forms in a tube is the only thing that is going to save us. Tastes good too!

    The future is so bright……

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  6. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:
    7/10/2011 at 11:44 am

    Radioactive Rotting Bodies.

    That’s the name of a band I was in around 1983.

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  7. Floyd says:
    7/10/2011 at 12:18 pm

    “…I gotta wear shades. ”

    Why are we worrying about this?

    Instead, how about wondering about food that’s never been anywhere near any real dirt.

    Just grow your own vegetables in your back yard. Done that, very satisfying to grow them and they taste good too.

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  8. EnemyOfTheState says:
    7/10/2011 at 1:10 pm

    Napalm

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  9. Derek says:
    7/10/2011 at 1:43 pm

    To add to #2, most of this debris was already washed out to sea before the reactor melted down.

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  10. Drive By Poster says:
    7/10/2011 at 2:08 pm

    Haven’t you people been watching Japanese movies?

    They’ll come ashore as giant, mutant, radioactive zombies.

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  11. denacron says:
    7/10/2011 at 2:48 pm

    Beach combing bonanzai!

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  12. bbjester says:
    7/10/2011 at 3:27 pm

    You never know, some of those old red Fiestaware dinner sets, or a few glow in the dark wristwatches could wash ashore. Personally I think I would be more afraid of the mantles in my old Coleman lantern though.

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  13. deowll says:
    7/10/2011 at 4:26 pm

    Back when it happened they said that the shoes of some of the dead that were washed out to sea will float once the rest of the body is gone so the beach combers should be sure and check any shoes to see if they have a foot inside and contact the authorities if they do.

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  14. msbpodcast says:
    7/10/2011 at 5:05 pm

    In # 6 Olo Baggins of Bywater said: Radioactive Rotting Bodies.

    That’s the name of a band I was in around 1983.

    Prove it.

    That is a seriously cool name for a band.

    Back in my Punk/Nihilist phase (about the same time) I was writing “topical” lyrics for a couple of punk bands in Montréal, one of which was “Captain Cadaver“. (I had stuff about Chapais [which means nothing unless you're into disasters in Quebec,] and the trials and tribulations of altar boys in La Belle Province [this one even grossed out the punk rockers, who called me "fuckin' twisted" and refused to play the song... :-])

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  15. msbpodcast says:
    7/10/2011 at 5:24 pm

    By the way, we’re as likely to find one of those 15,000+ bodies washing up on out shores as we were to find one of the 100K+ bodies from the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami of 2004 washing up on our shores.

    And the feet that had been washing up on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state were identified as belonging to a cemetery that got floded.

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  16. jbenson2 says:
    7/10/2011 at 5:33 pm

    California lets in all sorts of “trash” already. What’s the big deal with a bit more?

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  17. Animby says:
    7/10/2011 at 5:36 pm

    # 7 Floyd said, “Just grow your own vegetables in your back yard. Done that, very satisfying”

    I found it frustrating. Too damn many zucchini!

    # 15 msbpodcast said, “feet that had been washing up on the Olympic peninsula … belonging to a cemetery that got [flooded].”

    Hmmm. Did every body in that graveyard get buried in running shoes? Not me, fellas. If my family is reading this – when my time comes I wanna be buried in a nice comfy pair of well-worn moccasins. Maybe with asbestos soles just in case Alfie is right.

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  18. wirelessg says:
    7/10/2011 at 9:30 pm

    So in two years, Admiral Ackbar of the US Navy Seventh Fleet will say, “It’s a trap!”.

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  19. Mr, Ed - the Imitation (accept no original) says:
    7/11/2011 at 3:46 am

    #14,

    Maybe with asbestos soles just in case Alfie is right.

    Alphie is right. Far right. Way way far right.

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  20. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:
    7/11/2011 at 4:35 am

    msb…lol I made that up. I was in a band then, but have no memory of its name.

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