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Better Living Through Nukes?

Posted by Soulskill on from the brb-registering-my-hemispherical-pool-business dept.

perkonis writes "So, you've got 23,000 nukes laying about and no one to use them on. What to do with them? Well, you blow up stuff for fun and profit. Some of the ideas range from good on paper (such as mining oil shale) to just downright bad (such as making a new Panama Canal). Making a big ditch by blowing up nukes — what could possibly go wrong?"

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  1. Re:Security and Radioactivity by aliquis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Oh, and as for using any relevant amount of nuclear weapons on the surface at once -- say, the amount that would be exchanged between India and Pakistan in a nuclear war -- um, no. That would be a Bad Thing(TM).

    Looks like a decent solution to the global warming issue... Also if more people starved and died it would leave more room for other species and kick of more evolution. An extra bonus would be even more evolution, again, thanks to all the resulting mutations.

    As Nike would had put it: Just do it!

  2. Re:Security and Radioactivity by aliquis · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And that is worse than the Russian military how?

    And they are worse than the US of A military how?

    Or well, I assume you may have better oversight of it all, but who knows, and I don't trust your people more than the russian people.

    We might even see new nuclear power plants, which is definitely a good thing.

    Nuclear power plants is totally unrelated to nuking things outside a reactor. No contradiction.