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In reply to the discussion: I first uttered the words "We're fucked" on DU in 2006. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)27. Blowing a lot of people up and exposing them to radiation will solve this problem?
I don't think so.
If we had a way to make nuclear waste safe and if we did not expose water to radiation, that would be a possibility. But as it is . . . . nuclear energy is just another way to destroy our civilization, maybe our planet.
We humans are too prone to error to be trusted with nuclear energy.
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Blowing a lot of people up and exposing them to radiation will solve this problem?
JDPriestly
Apr 2016
#27
the best line in the movie and the first thing I thought of when I saw the OP -
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#13
My middle son had an occasion to quote that line to me (while I was doing something stupid)
ish of the hammer
Apr 2016
#24
As someone else noted (in a slightly different context), there is a serious cascade effect here too.
Nihil
Apr 2016
#42
About 5% of children younger than 5 yrs old have epilepsy - about one in every 20 children under 5.
proverbialwisdom
Apr 2016
#32