> On 2006-Sep 01, at 04:09hrs AM, Vasile Surducan wrote: > > On 8/30/06, Gus S Calabrese wrote: > > Nuclear power is a practical technology at this point. > > If you never lived less than 1000km closer to Cernobal... > probably 20 years ago you've been to young to know, right? > > ^ Cernobal was not a nuclear accident .... it was a weapons > accident AGSC ^ > > ^Hilarious that some people complain bitterly about Nuke > power generation and do not insist that Nuke weapons be > disappeared from the face of the earth. > One nuke weapon = evil to the 5th power Since the US > government maintains approximately 10K weapons, they lead the > world with evil to the 9th power. > > http://www.thebulletin.org/article_nn.php?art_ofn=jf06norris AGSC^ Weapons accident? Got a reference for that? I suppose one could always blow up the reactor to stop an invader. A bit extreme, but it might work. Maybe they'd been watching 'Blazing Saddles' too often. I wonder what Russian is for 'Hey y'all, watch this', which is the gererally accepted reason for the incident. Switch off the safeties, run at low power, and not be aware that the reactor design means running in that mode is dangerous. Oops. So evil is related to the number of nukes in one's arsenal. Should make an interesting chart. The Middle East must be paradise, except for Israel. Maybe you can plot all of the other bad things as well to produce an evil quotient. You could add guns, SUVs, rap music, knives, trans fats, Dell/Sony laptop batteries, Soduku, lime green trousers, Celine Dion, Jar Jar Binks and whiskey. Tony -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist