This major catastrophe (which has the potential for far worse, long term after effects) within a major catastrophe has once again got me to thinking about our long term ally- the "friendly atom."
It was spawned to destroy on massive scale (its one inarguable ability and "advantage"), and ever since has been unsuccessfully coerced into donning its pro life, pro user friendly guise. If only all that time, all that money, all that energy had gone into developing renewable energy sources- we'd all be a lot safer now, without this looming, potential killer operating right beside many of us, ready to strike at any moment... then keep striking for millions upon millions of years.
Even in its infancy when it was only concerned with blowing things up and "defending" us, it still managed to become a money making enterprise that had little to do with "research," while leaving its tell tale legacy of slow, and painful death. It's sheer, overindulgent overuse both rampant and obvious... (below via grubernd, thanks)
It was spawned to destroy on massive scale (its one inarguable ability and "advantage"), and ever since has been unsuccessfully coerced into donning its pro life, pro user friendly guise. If only all that time, all that money, all that energy had gone into developing renewable energy sources- we'd all be a lot safer now, without this looming, potential killer operating right beside many of us, ready to strike at any moment... then keep striking for millions upon millions of years.
Even in its infancy when it was only concerned with blowing things up and "defending" us, it still managed to become a money making enterprise that had little to do with "research," while leaving its tell tale legacy of slow, and painful death. It's sheer, overindulgent overuse both rampant and obvious... (below via grubernd, thanks)
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they should figure out how to have nuke powered cars, houses etc. the more of it we have the safer it will become. by the time all that nuke waste becomes a problem they will have it figured out on how to deal with it. am I joking? maybe, maybe not.
Yeah, I can just imagine a few thousand cars out there with leaky, problematic reactors- not a pretty thought.
And I think we already got enough deadly nuclear waste we don't have any idea what to do with- right, Nevada?
They should use the old retired space shuttles for nuke waste. justpack them up full of nuke stuff and blast them towards Pluto. Unmanned of course. That is unless some teabaggers want to go along for the ride.
Only problem with that, of course, is that if there is an explosion on lift off (as has previously occurred) you'd have an awfully serious, long term mess...
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