I never claimed to be in support of the no nukes crowd. I just feel that portable nuke power plants will be an easy way to turn harmless nuke power into small nuclear arms. It takes very little to turn a chunk of radioactive material such as Iridium, Plutonium, Uranium 235, into a weapon. All one needs is lead casing, a small amount of explosives, and a neutron emitter. All of which can be bought at Wal-Mart. Any hick with a pick-up truck can go steal someones Nuclear Power Generator. There is nothing more G*d damn scary than a redneck with nuclear capabilities.. Just look at G.W. Bush.
My original post was just stating that I would prefer slow death over excruciating pain even if for only a short period of time.
"I live in an area where that is not near any water, has only intermittent sun and wind so another power source is necessary. Geothermal looks great on paper but AFAIK there are still tech barriers involved. Nuke power is certainly better to coal or oil/gas. Coal spews more heavy metals and radioactive material into the atmosphere than nukes ever did. With fossil fuels the mess gets spread all over the planet, with nukes it all stays in one place."
Yes Nuclear waste may stay still in one blast area when detonated but its pretty much guaranteed to leave nothing left in the blast area except a shadow of me on any wall that still stands. Where as fossil fuels, will kill me in 60 years. I'll take 60 years of poison over being melted any day.
Who is the Genius over at Toshiba that thought this was a good idea anyway?
have to agree with ya. I have always supported Lunar Destruction. I am hoping during the next presidential election this will be brought up for debate. But the politicians always have a way a skirting the real issues and focus on unimportant topics such as Health Care and Foreign policy.
not to mention the intergalactic superhighway that has been in planning for several years. If you had checked your records office, you would know this.
also I would hate to risk global destruction because aliens want to see the final episode of a certain Ally McBeal ripoff!
NOBODY expects the Scramjet Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
The reason that the Japanese loves the PS3 so much is the same reason that they loved the ps2 so much when it first launched. The PS2 was the cheapest dvd player on the market for quite sometime, which a dvd player at the time averaged about 800 to 900 bucks. Same stands for the PS3.
Is this news coming out now because Darth Gates want more people to buy Vista or Windows 7 when it comes out? Every one know how weak security is locally on a Win Box but it seems like since Vista quickly turned into a brown bomber now they try to bash XP (The best Win OS so far). How bout instead of spending money to announce to the world the inherent weaknesses of Windows, spend the money to develop a better OS like so many Open Source Operating Systems.
Can I donate a couple of computers to this project? I don't want to have waste time to remove Vista so throwing them in the ocean seems like a good enough idea for me. Don't care much if they float though
I understand giving money to Universities, Scientist, Etc. but has anyone wondered why NASA needs private people to build and design a lunar lander for a mission a few years away? Shouldn't NASA who landed on the "Moon" in 1969 already have working designs for effective lunar landers? Seems to me that the 1960's death traps from the Apollo missions were proof that the overpaid under worked NASA scientists would be able to design (if they haven't already) a lunar lander. I am not a conspiracy theorist but is this further proof that NASA never landed on the moon?
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I never claimed to be in support of the no nukes crowd. I just feel that portable nuke power plants will be an easy way to turn harmless nuke power into small nuclear arms. It takes very little to turn a chunk of radioactive material such as Iridium, Plutonium, Uranium 235, into a weapon. All one needs is lead casing, a small amount of explosives, and a neutron emitter. All of which can be bought at Wal-Mart. Any hick with a pick-up truck can go steal someones Nuclear Power Generator. There is nothing more G*d damn scary than a redneck with nuclear capabilities.. Just look at G.W. Bush. My original post was just stating that I would prefer slow death over excruciating pain even if for only a short period of time.
"I live in an area where that is not near any water, has only intermittent sun and wind so another power source is necessary. Geothermal looks great on paper but AFAIK there are still tech barriers involved. Nuke power is certainly better to coal or oil/gas. Coal spews more heavy metals and radioactive material into the atmosphere than nukes ever did. With fossil fuels the mess gets spread all over the planet, with nukes it all stays in one place." Yes Nuclear waste may stay still in one blast area when detonated but its pretty much guaranteed to leave nothing left in the blast area except a shadow of me on any wall that still stands. Where as fossil fuels, will kill me in 60 years. I'll take 60 years of poison over being melted any day. Who is the Genius over at Toshiba that thought this was a good idea anyway?
Are we talking about Gitmo or that episode of South Park? Did ya'll say get gay?
have to agree with ya. I have always supported Lunar Destruction. I am hoping during the next presidential election this will be brought up for debate. But the politicians always have a way a skirting the real issues and focus on unimportant topics such as Health Care and Foreign policy.
not to mention the intergalactic superhighway that has been in planning for several years. If you had checked your records office, you would know this. also I would hate to risk global destruction because aliens want to see the final episode of a certain Ally McBeal ripoff!
What about Chinese?
yeah you gotta watch out for that air speed velocity of a duck. Just got make sure if its an African or European Duck.
NOBODY expects the Scramjet Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope, and nice red uniforms - Oh damn!
The reason that the Japanese loves the PS3 so much is the same reason that they loved the ps2 so much when it first launched. The PS2 was the cheapest dvd player on the market for quite sometime, which a dvd player at the time averaged about 800 to 900 bucks. Same stands for the PS3.
Is this news coming out now because Darth Gates want more people to buy Vista or Windows 7 when it comes out? Every one know how weak security is locally on a Win Box but it seems like since Vista quickly turned into a brown bomber now they try to bash XP (The best Win OS so far). How bout instead of spending money to announce to the world the inherent weaknesses of Windows, spend the money to develop a better OS like so many Open Source Operating Systems.
Can I donate a couple of computers to this project? I don't want to have waste time to remove Vista so throwing them in the ocean seems like a good enough idea for me. Don't care much if they float though
Yeah he updated to the newest version of Ubuntu.
I understand giving money to Universities, Scientist, Etc. but has anyone wondered why NASA needs private people to build and design a lunar lander for a mission a few years away? Shouldn't NASA who landed on the "Moon" in 1969 already have working designs for effective lunar landers? Seems to me that the 1960's death traps from the Apollo missions were proof that the overpaid under worked NASA scientists would be able to design (if they haven't already) a lunar lander. I am not a conspiracy theorist but is this further proof that NASA never landed on the moon?