Unlimited Japan Tsunami and Godzilla Rising thread

[Triple Zero]

You know, you could have just let us be wrong about it, but happier for it?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

You know, you could have just let us be wrong about it, but happier for it?

That's not SCIENCE.

[Triple Zero]

So?

[Bruno]

It's still more esplodey by volume, if that helps any.

Edit: No, it isn't. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

[Don Coyote]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Professionals with splodey stuff?

[Luna]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Professionals with splodey stuff?

My brain just took "bull by the tail," "staring inna face," and "splodey stuff," put them all together, and now I've gotta explain why I'm giggling to my coworkers.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Professionals with splodey stuff?

My brain just took "bull by the tail," "staring inna face," and "splodey stuff," put them all together, and now I've gotta explain why I'm giggling to my coworkers.

SCIENCE isn't always pretty, and sometimes necessitates an all-day bath.

[Luna]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Professionals with splodey stuff?

My brain just took "bull by the tail," "staring inna face," and "splodey stuff," put them all together, and now I've gotta explain why I'm giggling to my coworkers.

SCIENCE isn't always pretty, and sometimes necessitates an all-day bath.

Or shoulder-length rubber gloves.

Ew.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Professionals with splodey stuff?

My brain just took "bull by the tail," "staring inna face," and "splodey stuff," put them all together, and now I've gotta explain why I'm giggling to my coworkers.

SCIENCE isn't always pretty, and sometimes necessitates an all-day bath.

Or shoulder-length rubber gloves.

Ew.

Sorry.  SCIENCE gloves go only to the elbow.  After that, you're on your own.

[Triple Zero]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Aww, you're right.

It's just that 1) I don't really believe it but I don't care enough to find out*  and 2) a damper on a short bit of fun about splosions. He's right about ionized Cesium (salts) though not being splodey, I figured that'd be the case, but you know I was weighing between "It could splode, but, yaknow, it's probably in salt form, not metallic" and "BUT BUT CESIUM SPLODES LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER" and, well, I guess I'm just not always a SCIENCE type



(*he saw it in an ep of Brainiac, I saw a tiny bit of Cesium explode stuff as soon as it touched water in a chemistry movie in highschool as well as some TV program, but I saw a small cube of Sodium on water IRL and it just fizzled and made a bit of fire and smoke when you covered it)

[Luna]

So?

We SCIENCE types do not bury our heads in the sand, Trip.  We take the bull by the tail and stare the facts in the face.

We are, after all, professionals.

Aww, you're right.

It's just that 1) I don't really believe it but I don't care enough to find out*  and 2) a damper on a short bit of fun about splosions. He's right about ionized Cesium (salts) though not being splodey, I figured that'd be the case, but you know I was weighing between "It could splode, but, yaknow, it's probably in salt form, not metallic" and "BUT BUT CESIUM SPLODES LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER" and, well, I guess I'm just not always a SCIENCE type



(*he saw it in an ep of Brainiac, I saw a tiny bit of Cesium explode stuff as soon as it touched water in a chemistry movie in highschool as well as some TV program, but I saw a small cube of Sodium on water IRL and it just fizzled and made a bit of fire and smoke when you covered it)

Throw a whole block of sodium into the school's swimming pool, and you burn the fuck out of the liner, and the water tests damn near pure H2O.

You know...  In theory...

[Lord Cataplanga]

In other news...

Japanese legislators taking salary cut to raise funds for disaster relief.

TOKYO, March 28 (UPI) -- Japan will cut 3 million yen ($37,000) from each lawmaker's pay to raise funds for disaster relief, political parties said Monday.

The governing Democratic Party of Japan agreed on the move with the opposition Liberal Democrats and New Komeito, Parliament members told Kyodo News. They will urge other parties to join in and pass the necessary legislation soon.

The plan would cut 500,000 yen ($6,100) from each Diet member's salary for six months, raising 2 billion yen ($24.5 million) to support the reconstruction of northeastern Japan following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.

The plan will translate into an annual pay cut of about 14 percent.

Maybe there is hope after all.

[Jasper]

Holy Enviably Sane Politics, Batman!

[Faust]

I wish our politicians would take a leaf from their book.