This is slightly off topic of course, but do you realize that if you kill all the stupid people (assuming here that stupid person == anyone more stupid than yourself). You end up being the most stupid person on the planet...
I am all for keeping lots of stupid people around. Just make sure they aren't governing in anyform..
(of course this easily opens the whole debate on "what is stupid?"..)
Just what kind of ecological disaster are you refering to? PU-238 has a half life of ~88 YEARS. Its primary decay is Alpha. Radioactively its not that dangerous. Its only slightly worse than the Americium in your smoke detector. (or do you live in a fire proof cave somewhere?) Or course we're talking kilograms not milligrams.....
At this point the only "disaster" I can think of is the scientific lost if the probe does get hit. The chances of it hurting anyone on earth are so frighteningly small its not even worth debating.
If it had blown up at launch the only people that would have gotten hurt were all the anti-nuke whiners that it would have landed on...
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This is slightly off topic of course, but do you realize that if you kill all the stupid people (assuming here that stupid person == anyone more stupid than yourself). You end up being the most stupid person on the planet...
I am all for keeping lots of stupid people around. Just make sure they aren't governing in anyform..
(of course this easily opens the whole debate on "what is stupid?"..)
Seems to work just fine for me. Athlon 800 w/ 512MB ECC PC133.
Don't you mean 24 Kilograms?
Just what kind of ecological disaster are you refering to? PU-238 has a half life of ~88 YEARS. Its primary decay is Alpha. Radioactively its not that dangerous. Its only slightly worse than the Americium in your smoke detector. (or do you live in a fire proof cave somewhere?) Or course we're talking kilograms not milligrams.....
At this point the only "disaster" I can think of is the scientific lost if the probe does get hit. The chances of it hurting anyone on earth are so frighteningly small its not even worth debating.
If it had blown up at launch the only people that would have gotten hurt were all the anti-nuke whiners that it would have landed on...