Somebody please tell Rachel that Michio Kaku is an idiot!

[Towlie]

[bananas]

1. Only an idiot would think Michio Kaku is an idiot!

[elleng]

2. ...

:thumbsup:

[golddigger]

3. Lol, yep!

[Raine]

13. Absolutely! nt

[flamingdem]

27. +1 He's right it could be another Chernobyl w/a hydrogen explosion + 6 nukes nt

[CherokeeDem]

4. Would you care to explain why he is an idot???? nt

[Liquorice]

5. Michio Kaku is certainly not an idiot. nt

[Tx4obama]

6. Michio Kaku is awesome. He always tells the important points and tells the truth! n/t

[Omaha Steve]

7. Marta and I were both watching

We give him a 2 thumbs up. We have watched him in the past too.

[blondeatlast]

8. CALL RACHEL! rIGHT FUCKING NOW!!! nt

[neverforget]

9. If only I could be an idiot like him

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

[WillyT]

10. And Your Degree Is From... The University Of CrackerJacks ???

:wtf:

[Raine]

11. He is NOT!

He's one of the few that I would ever believe tells the truth.

[Octafish]

12. What part of what he said wasn't true?

Michio Kaku was spot-on, stating the disaster is unprecedented and that the situation is more dire than advertised. He also warned that engineers were moving blindly in their efforts to stabilize the situation. No nuclear engineering text book of possible eventualities had considered a once-in-a-century event, where the tidal wave wall was designed for 15-feet and the tidal wave was 25-feet. The emergency generators were in the buildings' basements, creating unimagined situations for the reactors.

My take-away: Kaku said current efforts really amounted to experiments and that the people of Japan and the world are guinea pigs. I hadn't heard anybody else state that so clearly.

So, what was wrong with it?

[Hugabear]

21. He's saying scary things, easier to pretend it's not true

There was a thread several days ago (don't ask me for a link, I didn't bookmark it) regarding Michio Kaku's dire predictions about the nuclear reactor. A few posters attacked him saying that he doesn't really know anything about nuclear plant design, that he's "only" a theoretical physicist.

[flamingdem]

28. I just realized - I listened to him constantly during 3 Mile Island! nt

[Octafish]

31. The guy was profound way back when. He spoke against the First Gulf War.

Nuclear Threats and the New World Order

[PCIntern]

14. WTF!

Care to post a reply as to WHY he is? 'Cause if not, you can just order a large pepperoni and wait...

[girl gone mad]

15. I disagree with him on a lot of theoretical stuff..

but I wouldn't ever call him an idiot. He's actually a pretty gifted mathematician and was an influential force in developing QFT.

[JDPriestly]

16. Towlie, please elaborate.

What is the reasoning behind your statement?

[WillyT]

17. Apparently... It's A Hit And Run...

:shrug:

:hi:

[TheKentuckian]

18. You might want to explain your thinking because your statement seems nutzoid.

[jayfish]

19. Watch out for that first step!

It's a DUzy.

Bing!

[Hugabear]

20. Yeah, what the fuck does he know

It's not like he's a brilliant quantum physicist or anything... :sarcasm:

[madinmaryland]

22. What the fuck? Is this a "post-and-run"?

:wtf:

[marmar]

23. Only to those averse to reality and with a pathological need to be comforted.

nt

[bertman]

24. I don't know if he is an idiot or not, but I DO know that he did NOT answer

the question that Rachel asked him as the last question of the interview. He simply repeated the question as a statement. If memory serves me, Rachel asked him what we would have to do to overcome our inability to predict the correct worst-case type scenarios and to prepare for them. He gave a non-answer.

[Hugabear]

25. Sounds like a bullshit question to me, to be honest

"what we would have to do to overcome our inability to predict the correct worst-case type scenarios and to prepare for them"

Is that basically asking why can't we predict the future correctly?

[girl gone mad]

26. I just watched the segment and I think he did give a good answer.

His answer was that engineers need to actually plan and design for these once in one hundred year events rather than to just pretend that the risk is so low they can be ignored. Sort of the same argument Taleb makes about economic crises in Black Swan.

[madinmaryland]

29. I thought it was a very good answer, also. nt

[Throd]

30. Do you even know who Michio Kaku is?