(I posted the top-level 'NUKULEAR' comment above, FWIW.)
What happens if some geologist of the future unknowingly takes a core sample in just the wrong place, to name just one of many not entirely unlikely scenarios.
They'll get sick and die. Unfortunate. Others will take note, and declare the place dangerous. If they don't, then they're stupid and I just can't bring myself to caring about it.
I don't think it's necessary to make huge precautions about warnings and such, just leave a sample in a hallway before the main storage, entities entering the facility should be able to take note of the fact that there is danger ahead and proceed with caution, regardless of their technological level.
For goodness sake, my local council doesn't even know where all its buried services are located under the roads and pavements. Do we really think we can preserve data and ensure political stability for 10000 years?
Of course not, you tit.
This has to be the biggest argument against nuclear power.
Yes it, in fact, is, but it's WAY too late in the game to ponder it, the waste is there and something has to be done about it. And any new amounts of waste will not make much difference, so continuing to use nuclear power is just as ecologically sound as it ever was.
I have been reading Slashdot for over two years now, posting rarely, never feeling the need to post logged in, I only created this account a month ago to test the user features. But now I want to ad my thoughts to the records of Slashdot about this horrible tragedy.
I already posted the first part of this as an AC, but it went unnoticed amongst the hundreds of posts:
The thoughts of fear over the prospect that this disaster will be used to justify turning the United States of America into a police state like no other in history with subsequent effects on the rest of the world, the inability to understand the loss of life even though I've never stood foot on American soil, and worry about future developments have all crossed my mind as I spent over three hours reading incredible posts on Slashdot. But... one harrowing image came to my mind that I haven't seen mentioned yet...
Imagine what was going through the the minds of the terrorists piloting the second plane to the World Trade Center.
They would have seen that the first plane had hit. They would have known that they were going to hit. They would have realized that their mission would be a complete success.
I fear what will happen if the American public finds out from a recovered cockpit voice recorder that the last joyous words spoken by the madmen were "Allahu akbar"...
On an equally gruesome note, I wonder why people who work in these super-high buildings dont't equip themselves with... parachutes! I mean, if I were to spent a good portion of my life at an altitude where fire ladders do no good, I'd get a base-jumping-compliant parachute just to give me a sense of security and a remote chance of escape in a situation where fire has cut of the only way out.
If there is one good thing that comes out of this tragedy, it is the fact that now terrorists have removed ultra-cheap, mega-effective, readily available flying bombs from their arsenal - airport security will be tightened and cockpits sealed.
Originally I thought that it will take years for America to recover from this horror, but the truth is that total recovery may never happen.
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What happens if some geologist of the future unknowingly takes a core sample in just the wrong place, to name just one of many not entirely unlikely scenarios.
They'll get sick and die. Unfortunate. Others will take note, and declare the place dangerous. If they don't, then they're stupid and I just can't bring myself to caring about it.
I don't think it's necessary to make huge precautions about warnings and such, just leave a sample in a hallway before the main storage, entities entering the facility should be able to take note of the fact that there is danger ahead and proceed with caution, regardless of their technological level.
For goodness sake, my local council doesn't even know where all its buried services are located under the roads and pavements. Do we really think we can preserve data and ensure political stability for 10000 years?
Of course not, you tit.
This has to be the biggest argument against nuclear power.
Yes it, in fact, is, but it's WAY too late in the game to ponder it, the waste is there and something has to be done about it. And any new amounts of waste will not make much difference, so continuing to use nuclear power is just as ecologically sound as it ever was.
Forget the operational safety aspects.
The what?
I have been reading Slashdot for over two years now, posting rarely, never feeling the need to post logged in, I only created this account a month ago to test the user features. But now I want to ad my thoughts to the records of Slashdot about this horrible tragedy.
I already posted the first part of this as an AC, but it went unnoticed amongst the hundreds of posts:
The thoughts of fear over the prospect that this disaster will be used to justify turning the United States of America into a police state like no other in history with subsequent effects on the rest of the world, the inability to understand the loss of life even though I've never stood foot on American soil, and worry about future developments have all crossed my mind as I spent over three hours reading incredible posts on Slashdot. But... one harrowing image came to my mind that I haven't seen mentioned yet...
Imagine what was going through the the minds of the terrorists piloting the second plane to the World Trade Center.
They would have seen that the first plane had hit. They would have known that they were going to hit. They would have realized that their mission would be a complete success.
I fear what will happen if the American public finds out from a recovered cockpit voice recorder that the last joyous words spoken by the madmen were "Allahu akbar"...
On an equally gruesome note, I wonder why people who work in these super-high buildings dont't equip themselves with... parachutes! I mean, if I were to spent a good portion of my life at an altitude where fire ladders do no good, I'd get a base-jumping-compliant parachute just to give me a sense of security and a remote chance of escape in a situation where fire has cut of the only way out.
If there is one good thing that comes out of this tragedy, it is the fact that now terrorists have removed ultra-cheap, mega-effective, readily available flying bombs from their arsenal - airport security will be tightened and cockpits sealed.
Originally I thought that it will take years for America to recover from this horror, but the truth is that total recovery may never happen.