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What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by adolph »

lolinder wrote: post #38
labster wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I may go off-topic, I wonder why the “Standford” spelling is such a common typo? Is there a linguistic reason for it, or is it some sort of infectious meme?

It's possible it's QWERTY-related as a sibling suggests, but there's also precedent for this specific kind of sound change in many dialects of English: /d/ is a stop consonant, which are commonly inserted in the middle of a nasal (/n/) and fricative (/f/), and in particular /d/ is produced with the tip of the tongue the same way that /n/ is, so it and /t/ (the unvoiced variant) are the most likely stop consonants to…

Python -> Pythong

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by wewewedxfgdf »

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness.

Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish.

Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you.

Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on again and is now one the of the most polluted and radioactive and toxic places on earth.

Pristine perfect beauty converted to unliveable toxic hell for humans and animals.

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by megablast »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #62

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish. Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you. Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on a…

> Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you.

This is the story of mankind, even today people want forcibly remove people.

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by celticninja »

cryptoegorophy wrote: post #60
somishere wrote: post #57

My wife is currently in the Marshall Islands commemorating an anniversary related to the nuclear testing. The trauma and fallout, cultural and nuclear, persists to this day - over 7 decades (and how many generations?) since the Bravo test. I've heard and read a lot about the atrocities visited upon the Marshallese in the name of research in the last six months. Including around the potential "intentionality" of the h…

When it comes to the most powerful weapon in the world special at that time There is little to none consideration for nature and people. Would you rather own the most powerful weapon and be the most powerful state or consider life’s of other people?

As it turned out there was still a consideration of other people. For example if Nazi Germany got the bomb first then many more people would have been miserable.

The greater good

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by ineedaj0b »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #62

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish. Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you. Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on a…

there's plenty of paradise like islands in the pacific. you could move all the canadians to siberia's tundra and they'd probably do well.

devil's advocate: GODZILLA and all the excitement and joy the franchise gave people would not be as much a thing without the US trying to blow bikini atoll off aerial maps.

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by somishere »

celticninja wrote: post #64
cryptoegorophy wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When it comes to the most powerful weapon in the world special at that time There is little to none consideration for nature and people. Would you rather own the most powerful weapon and be the most powerful state or consider life’s of other people?

As it turned out there was still a consideration of other people. For example if Nazi Germany got the bomb first then many more people would have been miserable. The greater good

The Marshall Islands tests were carried out after the end of WWII.

It's worth considering that the US also used the islands as a dumping ground for waste from previous tests in the US [1] ... At a site which is now under threat of leaking due to the effects of climate change [2]

[1] https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-te...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by BurningFrog »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #62

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish. Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you. Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on a…

> an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness.

Pretty sure the people there had just as much conflict, poverty, and misery as the rest of us.

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by droopyEyelids »

wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #62

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish. Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you. Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on a…

Phrasing it that way makes me think of how the Scots were driven off their land to work in factories.

Re: What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

BurningFrog wrote: post #68
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #62

Imagine you lived literally in paradise on the most beautiful Pacific atoll - an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Literally heaven, surrounded by the most beautiful ocean, reefs and fish. Imagine then they turn up, round you up, take you off your island and send you somewhere else to live forever, taking your home from you. Then they nuke that island repeatedly so it can never be lived on a…

> an utterly gorgeous place of peace and serenity and happiness. Pretty sure the people there had just as much conflict, poverty, and misery as the rest of us.

And were always one cyclone (hurricane) away from extinction.
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