Re: Energy and "the Clash of Civilizations" -- a policy thought problem

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Sep 29 2001 - 02:07:37 MDT

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Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 12:06 AM 9/29/01 -0400, Eliezer wrote:
>
> >> Question: What would you propose?
> >
> >Lots and lots and lots of nuclear power plants.
>
> Each of them protected by a force field and ray guns, to keep the next lot
> of terrorist-hijacked planes at bay.

As I understand it, you can crash a 747 directly into a nuclear power
plant without causing an environmental catastrophe.

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