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Thenamelesssamurai from Atlanta, Georgia Since: Nov, 2010
#476: Mar 25th 2011 at 9:22:00 PM

That picture of the car lying among the grave stones hit particularly hard for some reason.

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#477: Mar 25th 2011 at 9:40:03 PM

^I know that everything is going to help the people who are still alive, which is exactly as it should be, but my honest first thought when I saw that picture was 'please tell me they removed the car as soon as they could'.

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Koujin Since: Jul, 2010
#478: Mar 26th 2011 at 3:16:49 AM

The last picture with the crow flying across the street seem almost surreal to me, it's just so hauntingsad.

And how the fuck did that car got on top of a 3-stories building? Wasn't the tsunami "only" 10 meters tall as its peak or something? As it went inland, it shouldn't have reached so high.

And I didn't know that they put the deceased cremated bones in to the urn with chopsticks.

Cassie The armored raven from Malaysia, but where? Since: Feb, 2011
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#479: Mar 26th 2011 at 3:57:06 AM

Those, are, not, chopsticks! Those are joss sticks, which are burnt to ashes to light the way of the dead

edited 26th Mar '11 3:58:44 AM by Cassie

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MalagasyParrot Wh'joo lookin' at? Since: Apr, 2010
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#480: Mar 26th 2011 at 6:41:48 AM

[up] I believe they are transferring bits of the cremated remains using chopsticks, which may be a dignified way of going about it. Chopsticks aren't only used for eating, you know.

edited 26th Mar '11 6:42:56 AM by MalagasyParrot

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#481: Mar 26th 2011 at 7:44:19 AM

[up][up][up]A three stories tall building should be about 9 meters. So the car would readch there Each story usually have about 3 meters, although this may vary.

kalandra Since: Dec, 2012
#482: Mar 26th 2011 at 8:25:57 AM

I believed its chopsticks. I seen joss sticks and those look nothing like joss sticks, and the way the girl is holding it is similar to a chopstick.

Anarchy just a medicine seller from Perak, Malaysia Since: Jun, 2010
just a medicine seller
#484: Mar 26th 2011 at 1:54:18 PM

Yeah, those aren't joss sticks. They're some kind of chopsticks. Does seem like a rather inefficient way to transfer someone's cremated remains, though. -sigh- Looking at the photos is making me teary again.

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#485: Mar 26th 2011 at 2:25:54 PM

I'm pretty sure they're being used in a buddhist ceremony involving carrying the bones of the dead.

Anarchy just a medicine seller from Perak, Malaysia Since: Jun, 2010
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#486: Mar 26th 2011 at 2:30:51 PM

I know it's a ceremonial thing (you sure it's Buddhist? Seems more like a Shinto practice to me.)

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#487: Mar 26th 2011 at 2:33:01 PM

Efficiency isn't generally the main concern in funerary rites. I'd never heard of that rite before, though... I'll have to look it up.

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Musicalcroc Since: Nov, 2009
#488: Mar 26th 2011 at 3:28:08 PM

Wikipedia on cremation at Japanese funerals. They indeed use chopsticks to pick up the remains. Apparently they need to put the parts in specific order.

edited 26th Mar '11 3:33:05 PM by Musicalcroc

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#489: Mar 27th 2011 at 7:21:45 PM

Ah, for some reason, American news has been focused on this again! Good. Good. ... don't know why they took a break from this to cover the events in Libya, but it's good to see Americans concerned about this ONE SINGLE earthquake, and CLEARLY not a second earthquake and not anything else at all ever ever.

... yeah...

... um...

... Wait.

No.

....... NO.

...WHY ARE YOU GUYS NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS?!?!?!

edited 27th Mar '11 7:22:09 PM by Shota

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#490: Mar 27th 2011 at 7:43:07 PM

Wait, what?! There's been a second quake?

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MalagasyParrot Wh'joo lookin' at? Since: Apr, 2010
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#491: Mar 27th 2011 at 7:44:44 PM

This one didn't spark another tsunami, thankfully.

edited 27th Mar '11 7:47:31 PM by MalagasyParrot

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#492: Mar 27th 2011 at 7:45:49 PM

Well I know they had a bunch of 6.x aftershocks, which would be pretty big earthquakes elsewhere, but seemed to not be very bad from the reports I saw.

Was there something worse then that?

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#493: Mar 27th 2011 at 8:08:42 PM

Damnit, American news sites, why you no run relevant news?

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Shadowbell Macinatrix Insana from Massachusetts Since: Jan, 2001
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#495: Mar 27th 2011 at 8:18:13 PM

[up] This. Al Jazeera is easily my favorite news source. Pity I don't get it on TV here, but that's what the internet is for.

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Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#496: Mar 27th 2011 at 8:25:00 PM

Fox News just reported a magnitude 6.0 earthquake there today.

Sackett Since: Jan, 2001
#497: Mar 27th 2011 at 9:02:44 PM

Isn't that just another aftershock?

Did it destroy something important?

Heatth (X-Troper) Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
#498: Mar 27th 2011 at 9:06:11 PM

Well, it wasn't the first aftershock they had. I don't know what the US news are saying, but over here they are making look it wasn't big deal (that have been, apparently, hundreds of aftershock quakes and quite a few of magnitude 6). Apparently there were a tsunami alarm, but it was canceled already.

Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#499: Mar 27th 2011 at 9:06:38 PM

If aftershocks keep happening and are a frequent element to an earthquake, why would this particular one be covered on American news? I'm just curious.

Heatth (X-Troper) Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
#500: Mar 27th 2011 at 9:42:12 PM

Maybe it was the tsunami alert? This seemed the only reason it was covered in the news site I read.

In the Google News the coverage was small as well. Focusing in the tsunami alert and in how there was no damage.

edited 27th Mar '11 9:45:24 PM by Heatth


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