I knew this sounded too good to be true...
We cannot do this because the Earth is hollow... duh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth
Because of Godzilla and stuff.. isn't it obvious?
Because we've all seen Godzilla.
You probably could just dispose of all radioactive material in the deep ocean and not have any ill effects worldwide. Just like the radioactivity that was set off (many times) at Bikini Atol.
But reality is such that even though you could, and could safely, you would never convince people it was safe.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.
'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers clogged with rotting red
And there they lay I damn me eyes
All lookouts clapped on Paradise
All souls bound just contrarywise, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
That is what I hate, the media has turned public opinion so hostile towards anything at all nuclear to the point where people think living within miles of a nuclear plant can give you cancer. Nuclear energy gets an extremely undeserved bad rap. The disaster at Chernobyl sure fed the fire and is a good example of why third world countries shouldn't be messing around with nuclear energy.
"Death is not kind. It's dark, black as far as you can see, and you're all alone."
Probably go off-target and we'll end up nuking some planet and be at war in 5,000 years with the populace! Maybe. Possibly. Probably not. The sun is really far away, but I think the risk is that the craft crashing back to Earth would be a huge disaster, if it were loaded with radioactive material.
What we should do is create a genetically engineered dinosaur that eats radiation. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that.
Last edited by Theodon; 2013-01-26 at 09:00 PM.
Kinda good plan, laets add 2 more options!
1: shoot it out in space, and let it collide in some asteroids or something.
2: Drop it in a active vulcano and put a lid on it^^
Rockets tend to blow up once in a while. Not that weird considering the only major difference between a bomb and a rocket is pretty much that the blast gets directed. A rocket loaded with nuclear material blowing up in the atmosphere with far traveling winds is a 'good' way to spread that stuff.
I dont see nuclear cars happening either. However if we can tap in the huge power that the earth and sun produce we can have an abundance of power. Stuff like that can be transformed into other usable carriers like hydrogen or just plain electricity.
Anyway the problem with most materials is that you want it to do something it doesn't want. Storage of hazardous materials is tricky because it's containment might fail out of age or from disasters. Hell the substance itself may be the cause of degradation. As of know we don't exactly have the technique to throw something into the earths core. A volcano usually spews it out... hell any hole in the earth would spew it out, man made or not.
The chance of radiating the already terrifying sea-creatures (not to mention, do you really want the Kraken to grow legs?) irks me so much that I might not sleep tonight. Thanks!
Also known as Faulchu
Honestly, I don't blame the media.
It wasn't the media that created the issue where I live where a nuclear power plant was scrapped just as it was to go online and then the company (LILCO) was bailed out by our current governor's father and a really bad entity (LIPA) was created to carry over the debt and subsequently be attacked by the governor who created it's son when it failed during hurricane Sandy. All I get out of the deal is highest electrical rates in the country and 12 days without power.
It's not necessarily a media fueled fear your dealing with.
It's a kid's being born with two heads and people dying from cancer fear, one that while being rare is real.
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Read about Bikini Atol and all the crazy nuclear test the US government did there. None of the radiation is left in the local ocean at all.
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.
Because they both suck due to needing certain conditions like wind or sun and are too expensive
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Thats because the damn government makes it too expensive or impossible to do so by issuing asinine regulations that make it virtually impossible to build a new nuclear plant