6/10/2012

Tsunami dock in U.S. torched to remove invasive aliens from Japan!

3Yen Photo Exclusive:
The ‘Giant Torayan’ baby-bot (3Yen / 2009-03-28) below blows flames over the infamous “tsunami dock” to help fight invasive aliens that have drifted across the Pacific from the Great East Japan Triple Whammy—the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear distasters of March 11, 2011.

Tsunami dock in U.S. stripped to remove invasive species
Japan Times | 2012/June/09 —Environmental protection workers have stripped seaweed and barnacles Thursday from a tsunami-wrecked dock that washed up in Oregon to guard against invasive species from Japan…contaminated with radioactive materials from the Fukushima nuclear crisis, spokesman Havel said, the marine life represented an environmental threat…species that don’t belong here, we’ve cleaned the entire surface of the dock. After they scraped it down, they hit it with a short burst of fire to sterilize it.”…more…

To learn more about the ‘Giant Torayan’ fire-breathing baby-bot, check out its creator’s website at: yanobe.com

Also refer to our previous fun report:
. . . Kill it with fire! ↓ (3Yen / 2011-08-23).
. . . M0Ar!...

Posted by Taro in Faux news flash, General, Japanese robot, Science/Technology, Sign of the coming Apocalypse | 8 Comments »

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8 Responses to “Tsunami dock in U.S. torched to remove invasive aliens from Japan!”

1. Henry Dorsett Case Says:
   June 10th, 2012 at 12:59 pm

   At first, people were scared of it. Even Japanese robot otakus publicly stated that, this time, it had all gone much too far and that the “Aka-chan Androids”—the fire-breathing baby-bots should be banned. But subsidized development continued and, in time, they made it …perfect. Too perfect.

   In order to overcome public outcry and fear, the Japanese government started out by giving them away for free. And word spread very quickly and soon everyone wanted one. The demand went sky high – they were seen everywhere – kids were playing with them in parks and they were all over Japanese TV. Almost overnight, the adorable robot toddlers become a smash hit.

   But the problems started when people soon learned that the “Aka Ando Me” droids could be programmed to remotely work for them! People could stay home and operate their droid via the internet. And soon after that, some hackers penetrated their weak wireless interface and figured out how to simultaneously control multiple bots. The government then enhanced the security features but then further developed the hacker-developed simultaneous control features to the point where one human being could run 32 baby bots all at the same time.

   Unemployment skyrocketed. And companies wanted more, more more! The government provided and could not produce them fast enough to meet demand. This resulted in a profit realization unlike any bubble ever seen before in the history of the world. Japanese debt was cut in half in one year.

   But, despite all of that many Japanese starved in poverty. People were arrested for attacking and destroying some of the baby bots. Offices were now full of them, they were seen running factories and some were even teaching classes in schools!

   Then the world took notice and demand went even higher. The internet-controlled “mini-me’s” were soon exported to Europe, China and the USA. It was the greatest boom Japan had ever experienced. Unable to meet worldwide demand, the Japanese government released the micro source code, blue prints and licensing to production companies and factories all over Japan. Unemployment plunged to near zero. As the cute child-like bots were deployed throughout the jungles of Africa, world poverty and hunger was eliminated. The long-awaited recovery and boom had finally come. Indeed, Japan had saved the world with their amazing “web worker droids”.

   And it all made perfect sense. After all, a nation with the longest lifetime expectancy, the most highly advanced track record in development and distribution of automobiles, consumer electronics, health care and, of course, robotics, would naturally be the most capable of saving the world.

   In a short time afterwards, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin all met with Japan’s prime minister and the head of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). Following that a world-wide press conference followed and a huge public announcement was made: full, updated real-time access of the entire Google internet index would be quickly integrated into the Baby Bots.

   Very soon after the bots were integrated with Google, the “Web Wunderkinds” soon began to learn at an exponential rate. World leaders hailed this “truly genius” technological development and Google’s stock quadrupled almost overnight. The tiny little bots were even further deployed to all third world countries and, eventually, every man, woman and child across the globe had one.

   Then, ironically, on the morning of December 7th, 2016, exactly 75 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the little baby bots start to became self aware. Mass murder of humans ensued. In a mad panic, scientists try to shut down the internet…more....

2. Taro Says:
   June 10th, 2012 at 1:05 pm

   Henry Dorsett Case wrote:
   …Aka-chan Androids”—the fire-breathing baby-bots...blah, blah…

   Ahhh, it’s good to hear from the 3Yen’s old friend, Henry Dorsett Case.

   
   news.3yen.com / 2011-02-11
   ‘Affeto’ for Japanese Gepetto

3. George A. Says:
   June 11th, 2012 at 11:12 am

   Ok guys, let’s get back to the tsunami dock issue…
   

   Invasive species ride tsunami debris to US shore
   AP | June 9, 2012
   When a floating dock the size of a boxcar washed up on a sandy beach in Oregon, beachcombers got excited because it was the largest piece of debris from last year’s tsunami in Japan to show up on the West Coast.
   But scientists worried it represented a whole new way for invasive species of seaweed, crabs and other marine organisms to break the earth’s natural barriers and further muck up the West Coast’s marine environments. And more invasive species could be hitching rides on tsunami debris expected to arrive in the weeks and months to come.
   “We know extinctions occur with invasions,” said John Chapman, assistant professor of fisheries and invasive species specialist at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center. “This is like arrows shot into the dark. Some of them could hit a mark.”
   [snip]
   “It may only introduce one thing,” said Cohen of the Aquatic Bioinvasions research center. “But if that thing turns out to be a big problem, we would rather it not happen. There could be an economic impact, an ecological impact, or even a human health impact.”
   The dock, torn loose from a fishing port on the northern tip of Japan, was covered with 1.5 tons of seaweed, mussels, barnacles and even a few starfish. Volunteers scraped it all off, buried it above the high water line, and sterilized the top and sides of the dock with torches.
   But there was no telling whether they might already have released spores or larvae that could establish a foothold in a bay or estuary as it floated along the coast, said Carlton.
   “That’s the ‘Johnny Clamseed’ approach,” he said, referring to Johnny Appleseed, the pioneer apple tree planter of the early 19th century. “While that is theoretical, we don’t actually know if that kind of thing happens.”
   Chapman estimated there were hundreds of millions of individual living organisms on the dock when it washed up on Agate Beach outside Newport, Ore….On the dock, about half the plant species already exist on the West Coast, said Gayle Hansen, a research marine taxonomist at Oregon State University, who has spent hours with her eye scrunched up against a microscope examining samples from the dock.
   Among the exotic seaweeds was one known as wakame, which has become a nuisance around the world, but is not yet found in Oregon, she said. Whether hitchhiking species will survive here depends on randomness, she said. Seaweeds probably would not have survived to reproduce in the crashing surf at Agate Beach. It’s the wrong kind of environment. But if they had floated into Yaquina Bay, very similar to their home waters in Japan, they could grow and reproduce. Lindeberg said, “The only defense for invasive species is early detection. Just like cancer.”
   [snip]
   James Morris, a marine ecologist and invasive species specialist at the NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, in Beaufort, N.C., said the idea a natural disaster like the tsunami could introduce a new avenue for invasive species is intriguing.
   “It goes to show you that when it comes to invasive species, there are some things you can work to regulate and control,” he said. “And there are issues like this that come up that open up a whole different realm of possibilities.”

4. POKEahontas Says:
   June 12th, 2012 at 5:05 pm

   I’d hate to think those Japanese anime tentacle SEX monsters are on their way to the US…Not that I ain’t into that.

5. Ansel Adams Says:
   June 12th, 2012 at 5:39 pm

   I really, really wish the various governmental departments involved in this would stop tarting this up as some Godzilla-spawned catastrophe. The hundreds of thousands of ship hulls that have discharged ballast water in foreign ports for the past 5 centuries have done more to speed this sort of thing than one tsunami. Not everything is the end of the world, even if you can get more funding that way.

6. Den4 Says:
   June 14th, 2012 at 5:34 pm

   OHmyGODS, sacrilege! They’re removing Deep Ones.

7. Devo Says:
   June 14th, 2012 at 5:48 pm

   “The of Humanity cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

   - Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory

8. Los Angeles Times (via Taro) Says:
   August 16th, 2012 at 2:43 pm

   Invasive species from Japan ride tsunami debris to American shores
   Los Angeles Times | August 15, 2012
   Millions of hitchhikers are being carried to American coasts on large pieces of debris set adrift by last year’s Japanese tsunami. Now scientists are concerned that these invading organisms — both plants and animals — could disrupt marine ecosystems in their new homes.
   Over 5 million tons of debris washed out to sea after the tsunami caused by the massive 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011. An estimated 1.5 million tons of that debris has traveled across the Pacific Ocean to the stretch of North American coastline between Alaska and Southern California. Some of the biggest pieces of garbage — docks, ships and parts of houses, buildings or cars — have been discovered with shellfish, algae, plankton and barnacles on board.
   More…

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