Hollywood has warned us about radiation for decades ...

... and now its starting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237069/Japanese-fisherman-reels-massive-fish-caught-coast-Japan-not-far-site-Fukushima-nuclear-plant-accident.html

Better keep an eye on the lizards, rabbits, frozen dinosaurs ...

As long as it doesn't have legs, Toyko is safe. Worst case, King Kong can throw it back in the water.

(Serious response: Is there anything abnormal/unhealthy about the fish?)

OK, interesting tangent to your title.

Did you ever wonder why there were so many "radiation monster" type movies back in the day?

Well, it turns out, the genesis for it appears to be the fact that when they dropped the bombs in Japan, they had NO IDEA what the long term effects on humans the radiation would have. One guess of course was crazy genetic mutations.... thus the movies.

As it turns out of course, after testing and monitoring the exposed people and their descendants, there was no evidence of any immediate or hereditary genetic damage... but they could not confirm that before hand... (dramatic music)

Is it wrong that I think Hollywood presents a more dangerous hazard than radiation?

That is not a 'giant' fish as the linked article calls it. There are folks catching fish that size and larger every day within a couple of hand fulls of miles from where I am sitting right now. It is an ugly fish though, but there are a lot of ugly fish in the sea.

I was going to post a picture of some "ugly fish in the sea", but I'm no prize package myself, so I won't.

T.J. wrote: That is not a 'giant' fish as the linked article calls it. There are folks catching fish that size and larger every day within a couple of hand fulls of miles from where I am sitting right now. It is an ugly fish though, but there are a lot of ugly fish in the sea.

Same here. There's a dam nearby that sometimes has to have divers go down for inspection. One year they had a Navy diver go down, only for him to come back up and say he wasn't going down again. Evidently there are catfish down there bigger than he was.

They really had to stretch the story to tie in the radiation aspect - I just looked at Google Maps, and it appears the Fukushima power plant is 900 kilometers from Hokkaido.

stuart in mn wrote: They really had to stretch the story to tie in the radiation aspect - I just looked at Google Maps, and it appears the Fukushima power plant is 900 kilometers from Hokkaido.

well, if you believe some people, the whole pacific ocean glows in the dark from the Fukushima deal and no one should ever eat anything out of that ocean or step into it ever again..

oldsaw wrote: Is it wrong that I think Hollywood presents a more dangerous hazard than radiation?

Not at all, fear of radiation has caused far more damage than radiation itself ever has.

racerdave600 wrote:

T.J. wrote: That is not a 'giant' fish as the linked article calls it. There are folks catching fish that size and larger every day within a couple of hand fulls of miles from where I am sitting right now. It is an ugly fish though, but there are a lot of ugly fish in the sea.

Same here. There's a dam nearby that sometimes has to have divers go down for inspection. One year they had a Navy diver go down, only for him to come back up and say he wasn't going down again. Evidently there are catfish down there bigger than he was.

I've heard this exact same quote about a little lake local to me. Unless you live nearby, I'm starting to suspect an urban (rural?) legend

Kenny_McCormic wrote:

oldsaw wrote: Is it wrong that I think Hollywood presents a more dangerous hazard than radiation?

Not at all, fear of radiation has caused far more damage than radiation itself ever has.

You bet. Truly modern nuclear plants are safe, clean, and have a radiation signature that is an order of magnitude lower than the radiation that comes out of a coal plant stack. Plus they are hyper efficient and generate an astonishingly small amount of radioactive waste. They could vastly reduce the amount of coal mining and oil drilling, while providing a medium-term energy solution until solar and other sources become truly viable.

The problem, of course, is that almost no one is allowed to build a modern, high-tech nuclear plant because of the hysterical screaming protests by so-called "environmentalists". So we're stuck with 40-year-old tech in 50-year-old buildings.

In reply to Duke:

It's really ironic, fear of an accident keeps the old, comparatively accident prone plants in service.

ultraclyde wrote:

racerdave600 wrote:

T.J. wrote: That is not a 'giant' fish as the linked article calls it. There are folks catching fish that size and larger every day within a couple of hand fulls of miles from where I am sitting right now. It is an ugly fish though, but there are a lot of ugly fish in the sea.

Same here. There's a dam nearby that sometimes has to have divers go down for inspection. One year they had a Navy diver go down, only for him to come back up and say he wasn't going down again. Evidently there are catfish down there bigger than he was.

I've heard this exact same quote about a little lake local to me. Unless you live nearby, I'm starting to suspect an urban (rural?) legend

you're trying to tell me there are people making up storys about giant fish that they saw/almost caught but have no evidence of it?

the fish is ~65% bigger than usual adult size, hence the "giant" descriptor.

If you look at the comments of this article and after a second look I agreed, it looks to be photo-chopped, because of the proportions of his hands and head.

Lets say you have a particular perspective on a topic, and I have a different one.

Let's just say I made you change your perspective by intimidation or physical threat.

Would that be a Forced Perspective?

racerdave600 wrote:

T.J. wrote: That is not a 'giant' fish as the linked article calls it. There are folks catching fish that size and larger every day within a couple of hand fulls of miles from where I am sitting right now. It is an ugly fish though, but there are a lot of ugly fish in the sea.

Same here. There's a dam nearby that sometimes has to have divers go down for inspection. One year they had a Navy diver go down, only for him to come back up and say he wasn't going down again. Evidently there are catfish down there bigger than he was.

Heard the same thing about the dam here too.

Only you can get some big ass catfish in most of the chesapeake.

uhhhh..........what exactly are "ass catfish"???

In reply to orphancars:

This