So true. So well written. I have to wonder how many folks are beating their chests, crying "Its not true"
TMI did actually have a core meltdown. It did not kill anybody but we were very lucky. many things went wrong there and people were right to be concerned.
I'm all for nucular power, but you can't fuck around with it. It's got to be done right the first time.
I say we spray hippies with DDT and throw 'em into one of Three Mile Islands' cooling towers. Just to test a theory of mine, mind you.
Probably had something to do with a major nuclear incident being avoided by nothing more than dumb luck.
and almost 30 years later, we are still hiding under our collective desks when it comes to nuke plants. And THAT is what's pathetic.
Oh this one is great....again, we figure out something is bullshit but we can't be arsed to go back and undo the damange...we just leave the stuff banned anyway so as to get rid of the surplus population I guess. Which all this leads to the point that there is a REASON why some of us don't take the "we're all gonna die if we don't do something now!" crowd very seriously.
It is the DDT issue that really pisses me off. There are people on this very board that will still claim the environmental cost of using it is greater than the human cost of not using it. One of the stupidest things I've ever heard.
Those robots are cold blooded killers, Jesus. They'll punch clear through a car on the line and lift it into the air.
Dumb luck? The reactor vessel being built strong enough to contain a meltdown was dumb luck? Are you one of those, "Jesus can't swim!" people?
Actually, malaria is one of the biggest influences in world politics in history. You can go all the way back to the destruction of Carthage - which likely wouldn't have happened if a malaria outbreak didn't decimate and weaken their army right before the end. Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan died of illnesses that were likely malaria . Here's a good link on how Malaria has affected various wars in history: http://www.malariasite.com/MALARIA/history_wars.htm http://www.malariasite.com/MALARIA/history_victims.htm Up until the 20th century, far more people died of disease and starvation in wars than did of violence.
A contender for the top five: Population overflow leads naturally to mass starvation We can see why they've revised it to merely ‘inconvenient’. Modern marketing/spin has infused and tempered the Malthusian spirit - trying to hold onto some shred of credibility. Reminds me of the doom-sayers predicting economic failing and recession in the US in 2004 and 2005 and 2006 and 2007. If you say something often enough, you're bound to be right at some point. Unless, of course, your name is Malthus (or Gore?).
Oh, I agree. IMHO it's getting almost as tiresome as his trolling on the CSA and Halftime. If he'll stop, I'll stop.
