Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
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Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#2I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions
> Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit
There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#3As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate.
Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show melted fuel from Fukushima for the first time."
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldT2g2qDQNQ
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#4As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate. Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show…
The only real difference from your version to the titles is -ese on Japan. 'Likely' is a fine substitute for 'may show', from my perspective.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#5I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#6I still don't see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots.
A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They'd need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn't allow additional radioactive material to escape.
I'm surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn't made more news.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#7As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate. Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show…
The only real difference from your version to the titles is -ese on Japan. 'Likely' is a fine substitute for 'may show', from my perspective.
The OP may have started to read it as "Japan (noun) pictures (verb) likely (adjective)...". Changing "Japan" to "Japanese" and "likely" to "may" eliminates that as a possible interpretation.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#8I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
Yes, and here is an article and a pretty scary shot from the Elephants foot.
http://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-elephant-foot-of-the-che...
I couldn't find if robots were used here, but I'm sure more were later.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#9As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for this is garden path sentence[1][2] and it's such a good one that it makes me wonder if it's deliberate. Even just some small adjustments would make it more readable: "Japanese pictures may show…
Melted Fukushima fuel photographed for the first time.
First photos of melted Fukushima fuel.
If you take away the tentativeness of "may", "likely", etc., you can make the sentence much easier to read. I wouldn't mind a slight lack of qualifiers as long as the whole thing is not too linkbaity and the content puts the qualifiers back where they belong.
Re: Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time
#10I was going to say, I thought computers can't normally operate in those conditions > Because of the high radioactivity levels inside the reactor, only specially designed robots can probe the unit There must be some sort of really powerful shielding on the robot. Cool stuff.
We've seen pictures of the melted core of Chernobyl too (the "Elephant's Foot") havent' we?
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