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  • What Natural Disasters Have You Experienced?

    Posted by admin on June 6th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 21 Comments »

    Just curious. I have been in a hurricane (my power was knoced out for 8 days), an earthquake (it was really little though), a tornado (everything was completly distroyed but the building I was in), a blizzard (I was like a month old), and I think that’s it.

    Here’s a list of the natural disasters —-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_disasters

    Just a tornado but it wasn’t that big although a trampoline did fly on to my neighbors roof

    Where can i find Surviving disaster on DVD?

    Posted by admin on May 20th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 1 Comment »

    I saw an episode of Surviving Disaster by BBC network on youtube about chernobyl. I also noticed some links to places to download but i dont want to do anything illegal. Can anyone show me where i can buy this show on DVD?

    Heres a link to the first part of the episode and also a link to the wikipedia file about the series.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyHvDhILYl8
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surviving_Disaster

    Thanks in advance for all help :D
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    Remembering the 56 who perished in the Bradford City Disaster 11th May 1985 ?

    Posted by admin on May 6th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 5 Comments »

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_City_stadium_fire#Reaction

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPH9xVJe0A&feature=related

    25 years ago, but on its anniversary I hope we can all tie our scarfs together and remember those unfortunate victims who tragicaly died on that horrific day.

    As fans we should. As fellow human beings we ought to.

    R.I.P to the 56 Bradford City fans who perished on the 11th of May 1985

    Never Forget.

    -|- You’ll Never Walk Alone -|-
    footage of the fire in the stadium

    **WARNING: graphic **
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rD4jI1×6SU

    Amen to that RIP

    Do the rich have Noblesse Oblige or Disaster Capitalism?

    Posted by admin on April 12th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 1 Comment »

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_oblige

    http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine

    As with everything else - it depends on the personal values of each person.

    Just as in a disaster some poor people band together to selflessly help others while others go on looting sprees.

    You need to stop applying labels and start looking at them as people.

    Who was that famous predictor who was blind? With a weird name?

    Posted by admin on March 25th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 3 Comments »

    I can’t remember! She had many predictions about the world, and disasters and stuff! She’s on wikipedia, and was blind and claimed that she spoke to spirits from those who died hundreds of years ago.

    Baba Vanga.
    She was from Bulgaria and died aged 85 in 1996.
    By the way she predicted that World War Three will start in November 2010, so start shopping for survival gear now.

    Are people who deny man made climate change suffering from ‘Normalcy Bias’?

    Posted by admin on February 25th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 9 Comments »

    "The normalcy bias refers to an extreme mental state people enter when facing a disaster. It causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and also its possible effects. This often results in situations where people fail to adequately prepare for a disaster, and on a larger scale, the failure of the government to include the populace in its disaster preparations. The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

    It’s what makes people stand and stare at an incoming tsunami instead of running. The most heart-breaking example I have seen was in a comic book called ‘When the wind blows’. The old lady and gentleman getting ready for the nuclear holocaust by pottering about filling a few pans of water and getting a bed made under a sloping door, as if it were an air-raid.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_the_Wind_Blows_(graphic_novel)

    "The assumption that is made in the case of the normalcy bias is that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur."

    This is certainly what their arguments are based on. Whether they believe this argument or not, I’m not sure. But we’ve all seen how often deniers argue ‘nothing came of acid rain, ozone depletion, Y2k, global cooling, etc.’. They constantly argue that because disasters have not occurred, they cannot occur. Of course in these cases they argue the threat never existed when in reality we simply addressed each of these problems and actively prevented the disaster from occurring. The problem with averting disaster enough times I suppose is that people grow accustomed to it and take it for granted that we will continue to avert it. Or they assume the warnings were just ‘alarmism’ and conclude that warnings of potential disaster are always ‘alarmist’.

    "People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation."

    Once again, a perfect description of AGW deniers.

    What are your favorite songs off "Plastic Surgery Disasters" and "In God We Trust, Inc." by Dead Kennedys?

    Posted by admin on February 17th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 3 Comments »

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Surgery_Disasters
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust,_Inc.

    I have a single album that contains both of these together on it. It is amazing! I love how Dead Kennedys always kept experimenting and growing.

    BQ: What are your favorite songs off "Bedtime For Democracy (1986)" by Dead Kennedys?

    I’ve got that same album!

    Terminal Preppie
    Forest Fire
    Riot
    I Am The Owl
    Kepone Factory
    Nazi Punks F*ck Off
    Rawhide

    Did the Titanic expect icebergs when it set off from Southampton?

    Posted by admin on February 15th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 10 Comments »

    I know sit didn’t receive the warnings once out at sea but i would like to know if it was known that there would possibly be icebergs in the area in which the Titanic sank. Was wondering if there was another route that it could have taken to avoid the disaster, trying to find other lines of enquiry for a history essay. Links to trustworthy websites would be useful no Wikipedia please.

    Tina, anyone who ever sailed the Great Circle route between Ireland and New York in April knew that there would be ice. There is always ice in April in the Great Circle route. The ice extends down to the same Latitude as Richmond, Virginia!

    http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/keeping_track.html

    RMS Titanic had all the latest gadgets, including wireless telegraph (radio) so she did, too receive ice warnings, but capitalism being what it is, the owner/operators wanted those speed records more than they wanted the health and safety of the passengers and crew.

    Do you know of any video games that have an element of natural disasters in them?

    Posted by admin on February 5th, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 2 Comments »

    Like a game that has a plot that is centralised on a natural disaster like.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Alive

    Besides that game..is there any game you know of which has such a plot?..
    Alex,
    isn’t I am Alive such a game..

    Sim City baybee!

    Rock those citizen with earthquakes and tornadoes!

    Isn’t it racist to use the term "legions" in describing the victims of Haiti’s earthquake?

    Posted by admin on January 21st, 2010 and filed under wikipedia disaster | 4 Comments »

    In the moments following a devastating earthquake in Haiti, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began organizing a humanitarian response to assist the legions affected by the Jan. 12 disaster.

    I thought Christ spoke with a demon-possessed person, and was told the evil spirits name was Legion.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_(demon)
    Ignorant people ask questions. Is that wrong?

    No, it isn’t racist. Which race would Legion refer to, specifically, and why?

    Yes, there is a demon that Christ spoke with that managed to find it’s way into popular modern mythology. I think he was even a character in the movie "Ghost Rider", not to mention being an X-men villain.

    The word Legion comes before that. Have you wondered why movie demons named Legion always say they are called Legion "because they are many"?

    When looking at a wikipedia article, anything with an underscore and a paranthesis is usually what’s called a "disambiguation". That means many articles linked to the same word. If you cut off everything after the word Legion in the url, so you end up with
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion

    It sends you to a page that says this, right at the top
    "Legion originally described a unit of the ancient Roman army."

    The Roman Army. Which was huge. Thus, Legion, referring to a very large group.

    So, to answer your question, it would only be racist if you were using it to describe a group of Romans. Maybe, it’s a bit of a stretch, but it could be used as a racist term applied to an Italian, or someone dressed as a Romulan at a Star Trek convention (Romulans were based on Romans). I doubt they’d be offended, though.