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FarLeftFist

(6,161 posts)
Mon May 7, 2012, 12:53 PM May 2012

As Springtime Rolls Around In Japan, Here Come The Genetic Mutations

Tomato


Mushroom


More Tomato



Tomato's being sold in supermarket


Cucumber


Apples



Eggplant


Daisy


Tangerine


Dandelion


More Dandelions


And more mutated Dandelions


"3" leaf-clovers


Giant mutated "3" leaf clovers


Even Oddly Shaped Ones


Giant Spotted Mint Leafs


Deformed Rose growing out of deformed Rose


Fish with 2 Mouths


From: http://fukushima-diary.com/

Posts tagged "Mutation"

Japan Liquefaction Video. Sea Water Seeping through the Land:



Radiation from Fukushima has been found in as far as Boston MA
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As Springtime Rolls Around In Japan, Here Come The Genetic Mutations (Original Post) FarLeftFist May 2012 OP
Are they monitoring the levels of radiation in the green tea leaves they export? Baitball Blogger May 2012 #1
What do the liquefaction videos have to do with anything? Lydia Leftcoast May 2012 #2
They are always impressive nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #8
Saltwater liquefication might be carrying escaped radioactive particles DhhD May 2012 #24
Liquification happened as the quake happened nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #25
Some of those 'deformaties' occur all the time. randome May 2012 #3
It has nothing to do with you personally. Rex May 2012 #5
Oh. Whew. Had me worried for a second. randome May 2012 #6
This gives me the heebie-jeebies. n/t K Gardner May 2012 #4
What effect does eating 'mutated' foods Rex May 2012 #7
Shhhh eat your bananas nadinbrzezinski May 2012 #9
And we ain't see malaise May 2012 #10
The fish, at least, has nothing to do with Fukushima Alcibiades May 2012 #11
Beat me to it. Several of these pics have NOTHING to do with Fukushima. AtheistCrusader May 2012 #13
As far as I can tell, all of them are frauds. TheWraith May 2012 #20
Half of the plants XemaSab May 2012 #29
Yeah pretty dishonest 4th law of robotics May 2012 #16
The clover mutations seem to be real Alcibiades May 2012 #21
The website linked, Ruby the Liberal May 2012 #19
GE still bringing good things to life. nt raouldukelives May 2012 #12
strangely beautiful in its own horrific way datasuspect May 2012 #14
where is Godzilla's picture? Wasn't he a genetic mutation? zzaapp May 2012 #15
The invisible hand of the free market now has 6 fingers Blue Owl May 2012 #17
So when are we going to see one of these? Crunchy Frog May 2012 #18
Relevant information for this, though, would be how much these incidents chrisa May 2012 #22
From the photo metadata, all of them. AtheistCrusader May 2012 #23
Lookup heirloom tomatoes AngryAmish May 2012 #26
Scary stuff! Glad I don't live there. Wonder if that seawater is radioative? nt Auntie Bush May 2012 #27
I would remain skeptical of such claims until there is hard data on where they came from and why... jimlup May 2012 #28

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
2. What do the liquefaction videos have to do with anything?
Mon May 7, 2012, 01:25 PM
May 2012

Liquefaction is a common phenomenon during earthquakes and has nothing to do with radiation.

The first video is from Urayasu, a city outside Tokyo on Tokyo Bay, i.e. the ocean and on the day of the actual big earthquake.

The third one looks more like a broken water main.

The fourth one is from the same location as the first, and it shows the aftermath. As the video captioning says, much of Urayasu is built on landfill.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
8. They are always impressive
Mon May 7, 2012, 01:39 PM
May 2012

there are a few of the great Alaska quake too.

And liquefaction has zero to do with radiation... by the way.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
24. Saltwater liquefication might be carrying escaped radioactive particles
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:12 PM
May 2012

from the melt down of one reactor core. We were told that the one meltdown and other core melts (not melt downs) were hours later after the initial big earthquake. Salt water was use to cool the reactors after they lost their, "heavy water". This all drained into the ocean. Days later the particles were in the ocean water. We did not receive any information about radioactive particle being in the surface liquefied water of the big quake. What was in the water used to grow these food items pictured above? How deep are water wells around this area? Did atmospheric radioactive particle cause mutation or polyploidy during blooming and fertilization of the food items shown above? Did heavier saltwater with its components, backwash into the water table? Can someone post a scientific study with findings?

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
25. Liquification happened as the quake happened
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:15 PM
May 2012

Your more correct answer is if the water went down into newly formed cracks after the quake...

Alcibiades

(5,061 posts)
11. The fish, at least, has nothing to do with Fukushima
Mon May 7, 2012, 01:50 PM
May 2012

It appears to be from Wyoming, caught in 2005.

http://journalstar.com/news/article_29ea47c7-a30b-559a-9228-9329c920df2d.html

Though I'm sure the broader point is right: there will be mutations. Many will not be as spectacular as extra organs and such, but simply lethal.

TheWraith

(24,331 posts)
20. As far as I can tell, all of them are frauds.
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:15 PM
May 2012

Check the metadata on those photos: some of them were taken more than a year ago. This is nothing more than fearmongering.

Alcibiades

(5,061 posts)
21. The clover mutations seem to be real
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:26 PM
May 2012

At least, they are on the Fukushima website. That being said, they are not the first clover mutations, nor even the most spectacular found in Japan.

http://pinktentacle.com/2008/06/21-leaf-clover/

 

datasuspect

(26,591 posts)
14. strangely beautiful in its own horrific way
Mon May 7, 2012, 02:16 PM
May 2012

the prodigies of tinkered with nature will always come back to rip our collective ass to shreds.

fuck radiation.

chrisa

(4,524 posts)
22. Relevant information for this, though, would be how much these incidents
Mon May 7, 2012, 03:30 PM
May 2012

happened before the radioactive leak. I'm not doubting it, but would like to see some kind of statistic like that.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
26. Lookup heirloom tomatoes
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:18 PM
May 2012

What most people think of as a tomato is a fairly new phenomenon. I see tomatos like some of these all the time.

see, I did plural tomato both ways, just to please you, Mr. Quail.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
28. I would remain skeptical of such claims until there is hard data on where they came from and why...
Mon May 7, 2012, 04:53 PM
May 2012

What is the normal mutation rate? What is the source of these?

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