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In about a hundred years I'll learn how to pronounce some of it properly...

(Hands up) Please sir! I know! 2 But I'm damned if I can remember which one is correct where. Never studied the language until recently - UK education.

We've just stepped through into another dimension... I'll try to make up for that lack of drunken Irishmen tonight though. Sláinte! :cheers:

Excellent analogy, best explanation in layman's terms I've yet seen.

That is extraordinary - by using crossed-out text, the IAEA seems to be protesting, in a very low key way, against the misinformation proceeding from the Japanese authorities. Otherwise they might issue a more normal and conventional correction statement. OK, now it's been 3 days since we had...

Hi, I'm not American but I am a linguist and teacher of English, and I can help you with some of that. Proper nouns mean names of people and places, as well as companies and nations. In English these must always be written with an initial capital letter. I would understand "Dyslexia bundled...

OOOPS - Early morning brain failure. Sorry, after having my second coffee I realised that I'm completely wrong, not the BBC. I confused Mercury with Venus of course, please accept my apologies and don't hammer me too hard for my stupidity. EDIT - I'll count to 120 in future before launching in...

Great news, I'm looking forward to seeing the images. By the way the BBC report has as its headline http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12761025 As usual, BBC space coverage is wrong. Magellan was in orbit around Mercury for two years (1992-94) before being deorbited when the power...

To be fair to GE, it was one of their engineers who blew the whistle on TEPCO's 200 falsified production reports in the 2003 case, discussed above. And if Mr Denton means the containment vessel will burst 9 out of 10 times, that hasn't happened here yet that we know of. Speaking of...

Yeah it was definitely one sortie because the total operation was only 12 minutes in duration. From the videos of the drops, the water dispersed so much that it would be useless. But we might take some comfort from the fact that the latest video posted by Tiger is crystal clear in video...

IAEA I'm guessing that means one helicopter sortie with four drops. Definitely saw a Chinook dipping the bucket in the sea for a refill in an earlier video. The latest video doesn't show water dumping but includes the first close-up shots of the plant for 3 days.

And from the IAEA, here are the casualties so far: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html "Missing" is worrying, though of course if they were like me they've just run away.

Don't forget to explain that there are no actual radiation units in this graphic, the real numbers are unknown and so these are just relative measures. So yellow might mean 10mSv or 100, without data about the emissions at source this is just indicative of dispersion, without indicating...

When you've mastered that, the challenge is direct trajectory, blasting directly towards the surface without orbit injection first, then braking for a soft landing. That's when you find out how the craters got on the moon.

Happy Paddy's Day

In that case there's no report that I can see of any fine imposed on the firm as a penalty, only that certain execs were forced to resign.

Wishbone: here are some other reports on TEPCO cases, both nuclear-safety and plain old-fashioned corruption http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit117/nit117articles/nit117tepco.html (not sure of the date on this one - 2007?) http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/tepc-m17.shtml world...

Winds stronger to the east, which is a relief: New York Times has a simulation on radioactive dispersion based on current met conditions. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/science/plume-graphic.html?ref=science\r NOTE: The radiation units are arbitrary, there are no actual...

I'm really trying hard to figure out why everything happens at least 24 to 48 hours after it should happen if action is to be made in a timely way. In this regard this quotation from the Japanese govt is very revealing: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_24.html This seems to indicate...

BBC live log 1012: Japan's speaker of the upper house has suggested the country should consider closing the Tokyo stock market and foreign exchange market for a week. A bit late IMHO ---------- Post added at 11:41 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:28 AM ---------- Latest news 1032...