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Japanese Tsunami Ghost Ship Spotted Off Canadian Coast
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from an article in Inhabitat: "After Japan was hit with a devastating earthquake in March 2011, the Pacific nation was rocked by a massive tsunami that destroyed thousands of coastal houses, cars and boats and swept millions of tons of debris out into the ocean. Now, it looks like some of that debris could be approaching North America. Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada, indicating that after more than a year, some of that debris could still be on its way to American and Canadian shores."
That would be "last week" from last week when inhabitat got the story a week late? The boat was sighted March 20th.
Everyone else reported this two weeks ago. Can't wait for Slashdot's report on the Moon landing.
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The thing I love most about Slashdot is that they wait until I've completely forgotten reading a story before they post it, so its like a whole new experience.
> Last week, an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel
I'm confused. Does this ship have ghosts on it or not?
if (!deadPeopleOnBoard) ship.ghost = false;
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Free boat!
You know I can't grab your ghost ships.
We all know that's how horror movies start.
an unmanned boat identified as a Japanese fishing vessel was spotted off the coast of Canada,
Use it for torpedo practice. Once it floats into your territorial waters just sink the damn thing. Problem solved.
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It did have one or 2 freaky moments. And at the end when she's being carried off the cruise ship and sees what's his name and the gold being loaded on board was kinda cool. But yeah, it could have been executed better, but it could also have been a lot worse.
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Thats most likely uneducated speculation rather than fact. The meltdown didn't occur until well after the Tsunami swept everything out. The reality is all that debris was swept out to sea well before the plant melted down a week later. The radioactive materials leaked into the ocean weeks after the earthquake and would have been dispersed locally not on boats and stuff swept out by the tsunami.
As a Japanese fishing vessel, it is more likely to be crewed by little bitty one-eyed snakes.
Public safety officials tend to be conservative with unknowns. This debris was not that far offshore and directly downwind from three nuclear meltdowns with considerable airborne release of radioactive material. People should use due care when interacting with it.
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It's Ragnarok:
A ship journeys from the east, Muspell's people are coming,
over the waves, and Loki steers
There are the monstrous brood with all the raveners,
The brother of Byleist is in company with them.
Alright, not really. But I do take this as a sign my imagination still works.
Most of the initial material release was Iodine, the vast majority of which has since decayed.
Of course, your statements are completely un-sourced so unless you can link to such a statement you either tried, and failed, to be funny or are just spreading nonsense.
But it makes for great copy on the Tee Vee:
"Killer Japanese Debris Headed for the West Coast! Film at 11!"
Nothing to worry about. Apparently the case of the Japanese Ghost Fishermen has been resolved by four teenagers and their great dane. Old Man McGee was responsible for the whole mess and was apparently trying to distract attention from his illegal human trafficking operations.
Oh wow, you're right. I remember reading initial reports expressing concern, but apparently NOAA has given the all clear. Never mind.
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The location, 150 miles south of the Haida Gwaii islands, is about 200 miles west of Vancouver. The currents along the Pacific coast of North America run southward, so the ship is going to drift into US waters soon. The U.S. will probably get stuck with the bill for towing the thing before it hits something. It's floating high in the water, so the hull is in good shape.
Good job on your illiteracy. Note the bit you quoted:
Italics mine. They're pointing people to those sites for additional information on the topics of radiation monitoring and safety. Neither the EPA nor FDA have a hand in this. Good job at failing utterly at reading comprehension in favor of omgnuke paranoia.
Let's see how this works:
1. Ghosts are not men
2. Socrates is a man
3. Socrates died
4. Therefore, Socrates is a dead man
5. Therefore, Socrates is not a ....
Ah hell, never mind.
Table-ized A.I.
Does it run Linux?
How about Ghostscript?
Table-ized A.I.
Is there an Indian boy and a Bengal Tiger aboard?
I love this phrase: "colonization of America"
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There's no significant information in the linked article, and that's the only citation that explains where they might have gotten the goods. If they include a bibliography I'll be happy to examine it.
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Um... It drifted into US waters on the 31st. Slashdot is a week late with this story, remember?
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Better watch out for Attack of the Mushroom People!
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This article makes me wonder what may have been sucked into the North Pacific Gyre. I might be interesting to find out.
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And or a cursed weapon preferably plus five at least!
A ghost ship from the land of a nuclear meltdown? We're talking Event Horizon scale stuff here. Probably some kind of mutant ghosts.