Tony Smith wrote: >> 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. > Whiskey? What's bad about whiskey? --Bob > Tony > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist