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RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 11th, 2011 @ 4:03AM
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| 2011 is a year that is not dissapointing when you look at it as the last days. Its only march and the mideast has exploded in a complete shakeup of dictators. earthquakes, sunamis, extreme gas prices, extreme food prices. And its only going to get worse |
BlueFalcon
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March 11th, 2011 @ 10:44AM
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| 2011 is a year that is not dissapointing when you look at it as the last days.
Are you a professional handicapper for the Apocalypse now? Do you get together with the other nutjobs and reminisce about other years that coulda been...
"I thought '04-'05 was gonna be big what with the big tsunami and Katrina, but alas, I lost some money on that bet..." |
Smokin Joe
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March 11th, 2011 @ 10:52AM
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| you must be the absolute worst at parties RRP.
unless of course it's a tinfoil hat party - cause a tinfoil hat party don't stop. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 11th, 2011 @ 8:26PM
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| Very interesting but on the 7th of this month a member of ATS had a dream about a japan quake. coincidence?
right on the nail |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 11th, 2011 @ 8:48PM
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| oh yeah bluefalcon and smokin joe i found a picture of ya! i think ill pass on your party joe hahaha |
BigRed
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March 12th, 2011 @ 9:25AM
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| Surfers waited in the water? That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Most Tsunami's aren't waves..they're walls of water that tear through buildings. I don't think medical marijuana is working out for those guys. |
Smokin Joe
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March 13th, 2011 @ 7:21PM
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| roffle, RRP. |
Wootah
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March 14th, 2011 @ 9:55AM
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| I have to admit RRP, that picture is well played. |
Darren
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March 14th, 2011 @ 10:05AM
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| Regardless, I feel really bad for the Japanese, especially those that are displaced. The country is overcrowded as it is, I can't imagine what it's going to take to help out 400,000 people now.
I'm glad the USA is at the frontlines helping in this whole mess. They haven't done anything to deserve this disaster which is apparently getting worse. Sure, they tried to take over the world 70 years ago but they've been good and have been very worthy competitors.
And it's not the end of the world, they'll recover. The problem with modern times is that when a natural catastrophe hits, we have sensitive technology that can obliterate an entire population just waiting for something to go wrong.
Sadly, this bolsters the debate against nuclear technology, as well. Great. |
undreaming
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March 14th, 2011 @ 1:37PM
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| RRP, you're friggin' awesome! |
Smokin Joe
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March 15th, 2011 @ 11:21AM
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| Sadly, this bolsters the debate against nuclear technology, as well. Great.
It's sad because given the catastrophic disaster that just occurred, the Nuclear Power Plants and the prospect of future disaster have been kept manageable. It's almost like this is one of those 0.00001% freak events, the Plant is holding up, and people are still weary.
If that was a coal/natural gas plant, the death totals, in my opinion, would have been catastrophic - and the long-term effects would be at least a magnitude worse than what is currently occurring with the Nuclear Plant.
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Noss
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March 15th, 2011 @ 12:59PM
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| I think that the media is overplaying the nuclear situation for ratings (not consciously or maliciously but they instinctively play up danger and possible catastrophe). Not that it`s a completely safe situation but it`s not at all the catastrophe it`s being made out to be. In terms of the debate about nuclear technology, this is certainly going to give propaganda fodder to the anti-nuclear side despite the fact that in the end I`m sure it`ll actually be an example of how in the face of a massive earthquake and tsunami when nearly everything went wrong, all the major safety measures in place did their jobs and contained the situation with only some three mile island style low (relatively) radiation releases.
Japan Does Not Face Another Chernobyl
Why I am not worried about Japans Nuclear Reactors |
Jubedgy
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March 15th, 2011 @ 1:33PM
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| The media really is overblowing the whole thing. The situation is bad, but not as catastrophic (yet) as they claim. I think one of the big issues is that a reporter for AP or Reuters misunderstands a quote by an expert (for example, the fuel being exposed) and then writes an article that really doesn't explain what it means, however uses scary words (completely exposed, meltdown, release of radiation) that all have a meaning in the nuclear field, but they are not being used correctly. Other news services (FOX News, CNN, NY Times) then take these poorly written articles and use them as proof that the sky is falling. You can use some of the following examples to determine whether or not the reporter/writer has a clue:
-Claiming that people are being exposed to radiation, or that radiation is being released. The correct term is contamination. Contaminated material is being released to the atmosphere, creating airborne contamination. This is what is getting on people (those 17 sailors) and being detected. You are exposed to radiation during an x-ray, or the first instants after detonation of a nuclear bomb. Everything else is essentially contamination ("fallout", though that term also tends to induce panic)
-The reactors are undergoing meltdown (which will lead to Chernobyl/TMI/end of the world as we know it). First off, meltdown is not really a term defined in the nuclear world. It's generally used to create FUD and invoke images of a China Syndrome-ish scenario. Those cores could be considered undergoing a partial meltdown where the fuel assemblies are decomposing due to the inability to effectively remove the decay heat after shutdown. This will occur when the water level drops and the fuel becomes uncovered (which is what the press means when they say "exposed"). These uncovered fuel assemblies then will start decomposing. In highly enriched reactors, there is some worry that this could possibly lead to the reactors regaining criticality, but civilian reactors do not have the necessary enrichment to occur. So you'd then have a hot slag heap at the bottom of the toroid which is itself contained in a steel-reinforced concrete container. It will not melt through the toroid, it will not melt through the concrete, it will not melt through the ground and come out the other side of the earth.
-The explosions indicate something Very Bad is about to happen. The explosions where essentially designed failures. Some contamination was released, but the secondary containment buildings were designed with blowout panels to allow this to happen. Is this situation ideal? No. Did contamination get released? Yes. Will people get harmed by this release? That's a tricky question, but the numbers I've heard indicate that the amount released is very small, and that your annual exposure from just being alive greatly exceeds what you'll see from the area around the plant. Maybe we'll have 1 or 2 extra cases of cancer in 30 years than we would have. I don't think the danger is, at the moment, statistically significant...as in, you'll have a higher chance of dying in a plane crash exactly 5 minutes and 7 seconds after joining the mile high club than you will of dying from what's going on in Japan. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 15th, 2011 @ 5:39PM
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| its scary. they are saying california is due anytime now for a quake of this caliber. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 15th, 2011 @ 5:51PM
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| It appears there is some real real danger. The streets and shops in tokyo are empty and the govt there is telling people to stay indoors.
yikes
bar up the doors and windows
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bumngoat
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March 15th, 2011 @ 10:46PM
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| How can you say that USAID are hero`s? While their intentions are well meant, their means are abhorrent. They rob/steal from me and you (income taxes) and then give it to other countries (japan, etc). True hero`s are those who do it on their own dime, not funded by robbery. It is not charitable if you steal from others to pay for it.
Unfortunately most people agree with you, which is why our country is bankrupt. |
BlueFalcon
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March 16th, 2011 @ 8:03AM
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| I agree with Nebu that I have more sympathy for the Japanese people than our Katrina victims. Still, the Japanese didn't exactly knock themselves over to help us after Katrina:
LINK
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Wootah
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March 16th, 2011 @ 8:46AM
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| That Tsunami Slams shore video is insane. You can actually see some dude at the very bottom of the screen running out of the settlement just ahead of the Tsunami. Bottom middle of the screen at around 1:30. |
Smokin Joe
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March 16th, 2011 @ 10:30AM
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| You'd rather help someone from a different country than a citizen of your own?
That just ain't right.
Personally, I feel it should be equal all around, especially in this globalized world. I can't even begin to think of any justifiable reason for helping Japan more than Louisiana. Both were devastating disasters that affected human beings, if you would want to rescue one over the other, then there are definitely some negative underlying opinions clogging your mind. |
Charkoth
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March 16th, 2011 @ 10:55AM
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| I guarantee there aren't Japanese people using aid they recieve for breast implants. They are no reports of looting like were happening in New Orleans. Hell I remember reports of POLICE looting, and even not showing up for work to help during the distaster.
The Japanese Culture and people are sadly enviable to the culture that is prevalent in New Orleans.
I stand with Nebu on this one. |
JanMan
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March 16th, 2011 @ 10:58AM
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| Thank you for the kind words about Japan. I was an English teacher in the Ishinomaki area of Miyagi in 2005/2006. I taught children at elementary schools in two small coastal communities near Onagawa, and those towns have been completely wiped out. It`s heartwrenching to think that all the people who made me feel like family there are now homeless, missing, or dead. I really hope that Japan isn`t forgotten in the months ahead because it will need the world`s love and support for years to come.
The Japanese people are quiet, patient, and well-organized even in the face of this enormous tragedy. There is very little crime, violence, or corruption like you see in other disaster zones like Haiti or New Orleans. The admirably civilized manner in which the Japanese people are behaving makes them easier to relate to than a society being ripped apart by looting and murder, and that`s why many of us feel so badly for them now and why they are so deserving of our help. |
undreaming
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March 16th, 2011 @ 11:31AM
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| I'm of the same general sentiment. In fact, I feel more compassion to the Japanese than to those shaken up in Haiti. Main difference being is that the Japanese don't demand help like it's owed to them, they only welcome it.
Also, they're not trying to make everyone feel bad about themselves for not helping (enough). |
Nebuchadnezzar
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March 16th, 2011 @ 3:56PM
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| I guarantee there aren't Japanese people using aid they recieve for breast implants. They are no reports of looting like were happening in New Orleans. Hell I remember reports of POLICE looting, and even not showing up for work to help during the distaster.
The Japanese Culture and people are sadly enviable to the culture that is prevalent in New Orleans.
I stand with Nebu on this one.
Katrina people were living in a doomed area. Of course you could say the same about us Californians. The POLICE were help looting. The people there were looting. The area was generally of lesser value than Japan. Who has more affect on your life, people in Japan (Subaru, Play Station, Final Fantasy, Honda, Toyota, Nintendo, Sega, more) or the people in the SOUTH, new Orleans.
Then of course, you hear about ALL the abuse afterwards. People took them into their homes and the crime rate went up, they abused, everyone abused the money donated, etc. It was horrible over all.
Katrina people deserved our help and support but all I'm saying is, I feel more emotional about the Japan thing than I did about Katrina.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/katrina
Hati: sucks for them but it was a shit place to begin with. But of course, feel bad for them.
Personally, I feel it should be equal all around, especially in this globalized world. I can't even begin to think of any justifiable reason for helping Japan more than Louisiana.
Well we aren't even presented with a choice so it doesn't matter. All I'm saying is I feel more connected and emotional about the Japan thing than Katrina.
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hardcore puppy
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March 16th, 2011 @ 4:49PM
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| YOu care more about Japan than Katrina, because people in Japan aren`t looting everything in sight and doesn`t need a shot gun to go grocery shopping |
Nebuchadnezzar
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March 16th, 2011 @ 5:07PM
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| YOu care more about Japan than Katrina, because people in Japan aren`t looting everything in sight and doesn`t need a shot gun to go grocery shopping
I guess that's my point. The Katrina people seemed like a bunch of savages who wanted free handouts and abused afterward.
Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
Additional acts of unrest occurred following the storm, particularly with the New Orleans Police Department. In the aftermath, a tourist asked a police officer for assistance, and got the response, "Go to hell, it's every man for himself."[51] Also, one third of New Orleans police officers deserted the city in the days before the storm, many of them escaping in their department-owned patrol cars. This added to the chaos by stretching law enforcement thin.[52] Additionally, several NOPD officers were arrested weeks after Katrina for suspicion of vehicle theft.[53]
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RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 16th, 2011 @ 7:44PM
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| theres a good documentary on netflix to stream i think its done by "frontline" watch it. its pretty good. the cops were far more insane than the poor folks caught in that disaster. a notorius scene on a bridge was well documented. The cops had seized a ryder or budget rental truck and were riding it across the bridge. One of the cops for no reason other than to be a dickhead fired his pistol out the window in the air as they were passing civilians who were just taking refuge on the bridge, well the cops soon stormed out of that rental truck freaked out i guess by their own fellow cop who shot his gun in the air and they all got out of the truck and just started opening fire on disarmed citizens...already tired and beat up from the storm...the bastards even called in backup and more showed up on the scene to target practice against innocent people. After it was all over several were dead and many wounded..not one cop was hurt. and no weapons were found on or near the civilians. The fbi did an investigation and found no reason for those cops to do that. The cops involved were fired. The governer had called martial law and cops and any military were free to do what they wanted.
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Smokin Joe
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March 17th, 2011 @ 4:36PM
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| Katrina people were living in a doomed area. Of course you could say the same about us Californians.
Because Japan is not in a dangerous spot. WTF are you talking about?
The POLICE were help looting. The people there were looting. The area was generally of lesser value than Japan. Who has more affect on your life, people in Japan (Subaru, Play Station, Final Fantasy, Honda, Toyota, Nintendo, Sega, more) or the people in the SOUTH, new Orleans.
Honestly, that is one of the [silliest] things I've read. You can't be serious. They effect you every time they vote for public office for starters. For every piece of shit person that's looting, there are dozens of mothers, fathers, sons, daughters that lost everything they had (including family members). I'm glad you have no problem seeing one or two things and just generalizing about the rest of a region of people.
I can't believe you just gave more value to the lives of a people who made you video games. Not food, or anything to actually help you live from day to day, video games. What are you 13?
Additional acts of unrest occurred following the storm, particularly with the New Orleans Police Department. In the aftermath, a tourist asked a police officer for assistance, and got the response, "Go to hell, it's every man for himself."[51] Also, one third of New Orleans police officers deserted the city in the days before the storm, many of them escaping in their department-owned patrol cars. This added to the chaos by stretching law enforcement thin.[52] Additionally, several NOPD officers were arrested weeks after Katrina for suspicion of vehicle theft.[53]
So when something terrible takes out a part of California, expect people to treat you exactly like you're treating folks from New Orleans, saying you don't deserve help and being justified because of someone else's actions. I hope that sounds retarded to more people than just me.
YOu care more about Japan than Katrina, because people in Japan aren`t looting everything in sight and doesn`t need a shot gun to go grocery shopping
So we shouldn't care about the hundreds of thousands of citizens who are terrified because they don't have shotguns? These people have way more of a chance of effecting our lives in the future than Japan ever probably would. Instead of everyone turning their backs on them (especially the children), don't be so quick to flex the ignorance of the region.
Edited because i removed the hair across my ass.
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hardcore puppy
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March 17th, 2011 @ 9:10PM
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| In one situation, their police force is focused on search and rescue. The other`s police force was focused on stopping violence and looting. As a human being, I`d definitely have more compassion for one than the other, especially if they weren`t even loot for the bare necessities to live.
So we shouldn`t care about the hundreds of thousands of citizens who are terrified because they don`t have shotguns? These people have way more of a chance of effecting our lives in the future than Japan ever probably would.
I don`t think that`s the case with most people. What you are saying is that a city ( or a region of America) will affect our lives more than Japan, 3rd largest economy in the world after US and China.
It`s not [we] don`t care about New Orleans, but it`s a lot harder to have cared about the situation as a whole than the situation in Japan when you hear all about the negative things people did during a time of tragedy. You have half of a country act in a more proper manner than a city.
On a joke note: I have received far more entertainment from ramen and sushi than from crawfish and jambalaya. |
Apricoth
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March 18th, 2011 @ 4:56AM
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| Well I know that I feel more inclined to have stronger sympathy with the Japanese folks due to that fact that I had been playing side by side with them in Final Fantasy XIV. Same back in XI. I do not think I ever played with anyone in a game that were from New Orleans. I am not saying that what happened to the people after Katrina was no less of a negative impact... It is what it is. |
Smokin Joe
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March 18th, 2011 @ 11:56AM
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| ..if people had a hard time finding news about the terrible conditions schools were left in (if there was anything left), the amount of families that lost members, the advantages people are taking with the region, then there's nothing I can really do or say to motivate you otherwise.
I guess I just don't see this connection people are talking about with relating to a country/ethnicity/culture due to a product they make.. Seems kind of ridiculous.
At least have some sort of social connection a la Apricoth.
I don't really find a need to compare these two tragic events in order to talk down about the people involved in one. |
Charkoth
Right Wing Extremist
March 18th, 2011 @ 2:18PM
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| expect people to treat you exactly like you're treating folks from New Orleans, saying you don't deserve help and being justified because of someone else's actions.
When California gets sucked into the Ocean, I for one will sorely miss my favorite gaming company and would do anything to help any of them who made it out alive as long as they didn't look like a smelly hippie.
If New Orleans had come together as a community after the disaster much like the people of NYC had after 9/11 I would feel differently about them, but it's hard to empathize with them due to the widespread disgraceful stories coming out of all corners of the area. That isn't to say the majority of the people there didn't need our help, but a fair percentage of them abused the disaster for their own gain which ensured I didn't help any of them.
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BiVRiP
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March 20th, 2011 @ 2:08PM
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| HERE is a neat radiation dose chart that puts things into perspective. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
Nut Job
March 22nd, 2011 @ 3:51PM
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| Guys something is really going on in the skys people are hearing strange rumbling sounds coming from the sky that last for more that 20 minutes. like a jet but theres nothing in sight. this is the video that really captures it. people from all over the U.S. are hearing this. a buddy at work said he heard this noise at 8 pm last night strange rumbling sounds being heard
and heres the ats thread with many others who are hearing it. from all over people are hearing this eerie sound
could be some sort of earthquake activity, seismic activity but why would it come from above?
Go outside this evening or the next time your out listen and see if you hear it too. Im not talking about a jet fly over but a long rumbling sound you will know the difference. Dogs will go crazy too when it happens...in your area. also post here if you have heard it |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 27th, 2011 @ 6:23AM
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| Well last night at about 2-3 am i was awoken by this rumbling noise and it did have a weird ..electronic?...sound to it. i did not get up i figured it was the train going by. i have tracks about a quarter mile from my house. So i lay there trying to get back to sleep and it kept going on when finally it suddenly stopped. i woke up this morning to hear an actual train and what i heard last night was not a train. if only i wasnt so sleepy i could have got up and went outside. damnit |
Apricoth
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March 28th, 2011 @ 5:33AM
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| That is very creepy RRP - I read the other link that you provided as well, with all the commentary. People seem pretty serious about that - I hope it is nothing ill. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 28th, 2011 @ 4:19PM
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| thanks apricoth i hope you are right. If you happen to hear it you will know it. |
Nebuchadnezzar
The King
March 28th, 2011 @ 4:34PM
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| You're sure a nut job RRP. haha.
I think you're the kid my mom should have had. She's 100% like you. Every time I call her or she sends mail it's about all the same things. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 28th, 2011 @ 4:45PM
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| Thats too funny Nebu i was a normal guy once til i fell upon an article about the denver airport. But yeah i think this could be why the birds are falling dead. they are crashing into these cloaked ships. Just a theory. I bet your mom is really cool, ide love to learn from her. my mother is the "well it will all be ok" type. some people just have a let it ride ill watch tv attitude and dont care. |
RowdyRoddyPiper
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March 28th, 2011 @ 8:32PM
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| wow another great find. The movie "Knowing" with nick cage seemed to predict the japan disaster. Watch closely at the clock (it says japan on it) and then hear him say "81" thats the area code for japan
this movie is full of hidden secrets
if you have not seen this movie you really should. At the end it shows an alien arrival fyi. It seems to be chock full of predictive programming |
OniKuubi
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| RRP has No Agenda in the Morning |
