Posts Tagged ‘Disaster’

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Radiation in the Land of Milk (and Honey)

by Seraphine Khorana on April 1st, 2011
Posted In: Comics
Radiation in the Land of Milk (and Honey)

The Japanese government conceded yesterday that they can’t contain the radiation at Fukushima Dai-Ichi’s damaged nuclear reactors. The likely solution will be to entomb the reactors with sand and concrete. Water around the reactors is currently emitting a deadly 1,000 millisieverts of radiation per hour. Small levels of radiation have been observed in milk as far away as California.

The ongoing health impacts of Chernobyl has had a devastating effect on survivors: damaging immune and endocrine systems, leading to accelerated aging, cardiovascular and blood illnesses, psychological illnesses, chromosomal aberrations and an increase in foetal deformations.
Quotation from Greenpeace, Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated.

They have concluded between themselves that it is inevitable some of them may die within weeks or months. They know it is impossible for them not to have been exposed to lethal doses of radiation.
Quotation from the mother of a 32-year-old worker at Fukushima Dai-Ichi, according to Fox News.

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Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

by Seraphine Khorana on April 21st, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Promiscuous Women / Divine Retribution

If I can’t blame YOU, who else is there to blame?

Father Wages Court Battle Against Funeral Protests “Military deaths are the work of a wrathful God who punishes the United States for tolerating homosexuality.” (ABC News)

Why Is Pat Robertson Blaming Haiti? “The [Haitian earthquake] was divine retribution for a pact with the devil.” (Time Magazine)

Disabled Kids are God’s Punishment for Abortion “God is taking “vengeance” on parents who have had abortions by making their other children disabled.” (CBS News)

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Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

by Seraphine Khorana on November 13th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Friday the 13th: End of the World Prediction

The end of the world is getting nearer and nearer, hurling towards us at over 25,000 miles an hour. The current assumption is there is a 10% chance per century of a dangerous, life destroying space object striking the earth.

Apophis is small by asteroid standards, perhaps 300 meters across, but it could hit with about 60,000 times the force of the Hiroshima bomb– enough to destroy an area the size of France.
Quotation from The Atlantic, The Sky is Falling by Gregg Easterbrook

If Apophis is a RETROGRADE rotator on the small, less-massive end of what is possible, the measurement uncertainty region will get pushed back such that the center of the distribution encounters the Earth’s orbit. This would result in an impact probability much higher than computed with the Standard Dynamical Model.
Quotation from U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Near Earth Object Program, Predicting Apophis’ Earth Encounters in 2029 and 2036.

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Is that a Vampire Bite?

by Seraphine Khorana on September 21st, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Is that a Vampire Bite?

Consider donating blood to your local blood bank. It’s life giving. Afterwards, they give you cookies.

She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in.
In a loose white gown she walks
and a new child tugs at cords in her body.
Her head to the west at evening when the dew is creeping,
A shudder of gladness runs in her bones and torsal fiber:
She loves blood-red poppies for a garden to walk in.
Poem by Carl Sandburg, Poppies

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Costa Rica, Conclusion: Aftershock

by Seraphine Khorana on February 2nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Costa Rica, Conclusion: Aftershock

Immediately after a disaster, one takes stock: You find the injuries and the memories, the blessings and the fear. You think “If i had been on that bridge, or if the earthquake had been longer or stronger…” You confront your own vulnerability. Others were hurt and some perished. Reverence becomes an emotion.
Information comes in whispers. There were landslides at the waterfalls. Some stairs collapsed under a family with children, but they are ok. The roads are gone, in both directions. Cinchona, the next town over, is gone. Gone? Some employees at the La Paz Waterfall Gardens live in Cinchona and have family there. Two girls died at the Poas Volcano lookout, where we were earlier. We are trapped on the mountain, which is steep and filled with faults, and it isn’t safe.

Where to help Costa Rica earthquake victims (Tico Times)

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.
Quotation from Virginia Satir

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Tornado Alley (Kansas: Part 6)

by Seraphine Khorana on June 18th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Tornado Alley (Kansas: Part 6)

I’m in Kansas on Holiday. I’m returning shortly. If you
deliberately stay above ground level during a tornado,
you put yourself in harm’s way. Or even better, you
can try to be somewhere else other than Kansas.

Tornado Myths (The Tornado Project)
One Sheet Tornado Myths (cnn.com)

“Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.”
Quotation by Heraclitus, Herakleitos and Diogenes

“So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are”
Poem by Robert Frost, Revelation

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