The Mutant Daisies Of Fukushima

[kpete]

A recent photograph of less-than-perfect daisies near Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster site is generating headlines and is making the rounds on social media:


The image, showing daisies with a fused center and petals growing out the side, was posted by Twitter user @San_kaido of Nasushiobara, a city that borders Fukushima prefecture to the north. According to a translation from the International Business Times, the tweet reads:

“The right one grew up, split into 2 stems to have 2 flowers connected each other, having 4 stems of flower tied belt-like. The left one has 4 stems grew up to be tied to each other and it had the ring-shaped flower. The atmospheric dose is 0.5 ?Sv/h at 1m above the ground.”

Should we be worried about these flowers being a sign of the End Times? Anyone who’s ever eaten “ugly” produce knows that these variations from “perfection” are rare but normal.

https://twitter.com/san_kaido/status/603513371934130176/photo/1
http://ecowatch.com/2015/07/23/fukushima-mutant-daisy/

[Suich]

1. I have daisies in my yard that look like that.

[Warpy]

2. I've grown mutant daisies from time to time

but not all in a bunch like that. Still, we'd have to wait several generations of them to know what's really going on.

[Octafish]

3. If Fukushima was no problem, Japan would not censor the news.

http://www.projectcensored.org/fukushima/

[TreasonousBastard]

4. With everything else we're doing to the planet...

if this is a concern, it's not a big one.

For instance:

I am now limited to how many striped bass I can catch due to falling stocks. This could be considered not so bad because I am also limited in how much I can eat due to mercury contamination in the fish that are left.

[artislife]

5. What a lovely planet we had. nt

[Hydra]

6. Just remember

This was all "safe" and the "adults" were in charge. Just like the Deepwater Horizon.

Oh, and, it's not toxic now. Cuz they said so.

[thecrow]

7. I remember reports of plant and animal mutations like this after Three Mile Island

But they were hushed up because ...? Nuclear power was so safe....until it wasn't.

[NuclearDem]

8. And the Snopes results are in...

http://m.snopes.com/nuclear-mutant-daisies/

[dembotoz]

9. Thanks. But would admit, would love a garden on mutant daisy's

As long as the mutation did not prove to be invasive

[SidDithers]

11. /thread...nt

Sid

[FBaggins]

14. Lol... don't count on it

Doesn't fit the history.

The photos could be from Kentucky and some of the usual suspects would leap to blame Fukushima radiation for the effect. Heck... the photos could be from KY and dated 2009... and they would still point at Fukushima.

[SidDithers]

15. Is it just me, or do some of those daisies look like...

starfish.



Sid

[FBaggins]

17. It's a well-known scientific fact

Starfish come back as daisies when they're reincarnated... and of course radiation damage is known to carry through the reincarnation process.

That's thought to be the mechanism by which radiation time-travels (only "man-made" radiation of course). Reincarnation is not exclusively limited to linear time.

[Javaman]

10. Mutant Daisies was the name of my Tears for Fears college cover band.

Yeah, I could have gone with the band "The Daisies" but that was too obvious.

[FSogol]

12. You beat me. I was going to say, I saw the Mutant Daisies play at the Troubadour last weekend...

[MineralMan]

13. Twinned (fasciated) flowers are pretty common in daisies and other species.

It's a genetic trait that can be passed along for many generations. It's not necessarily related to radiation at all.

https://www.google.com/search?q=fasciation+in+daisies

Click the Images link.

[Hatchling]

16. omg!

Dali in real life.