From: John Marlow (johnmarlow@gmx.net)
Date: Sat Jun 02 2001 - 04:48:50 MDT
Hey, there's a lake over there, you stand on the shoreline for an
hour, you're dead. The idiots park their accidents on the bottom.
As to the rods--what do you think the dude at Idaho Falls was trying
to do with the control rods when he got pinned to the ceiling?
jm
On 2 Jun 2001, at 10:14, Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen wrote:
...
There's
> a certain river in Russia which will make you absorb a serious
> dosage if you just happen to sit by its side for a couple of
> hours (nevermind what would happen if you drank from it, or ate
> fish still living in it)...
> Sure, this is the Extropian list, where nuke power is cool, but
> sometimes you have to think for yourself. Nuke power is very
> cool in space, especially if you're so hardassed you can pull out
> the fuel rods in person. Given the monkeys abysmal record of
> handling hot isotopes and above holistic considerations you might
> want to reinvestigate the issue.
>
> Focusing on a single aspect of the problem only proves my point:
> monkeys are irrational animals. It is good engineering to not let
> them express their irrationality in palpable ways.
>
> ________________________________________________
>
John Marlow
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