Finland buries its nuclear past | 74 comments (74 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Put it with the majority of nuclear waste: ship it to the Sun.

The launch infrastucture required would also provide the infrastructure needed for NEO (Home, home on LaGrange!) colonies.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:11:46 PM EST
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But, but... wouldn't that make the Sun radioactive?

I'm afraid given how much noise was made about using a few hundred grams of plutonium for a thermal generator on a NASA probe (what if the rocket explodes on launch and spreads the Pu?) that solution is politically unworkable.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:16:21 PM EST
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Migeru. He has a degree - in Science! - wrote:

But, but... wouldn't that make the Sun radioactive?

Yes. And that is the downside - but ... it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

I know it's not political feasible, and maybe not even practical, but a guy can dream, eh?

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:34:10 PM EST
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Have you no sensation n your leg? Because it has been pulled ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:36:58 PM EST
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I know. Migeru was refering to a previous post where I related someone actually said that to me, in for real & earnest.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:41:44 PM EST
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If a philologist were to perform textual criticism on ET they'd come oway with a splitting headache, let me tell ya.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:47:06 PM EST
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Like the Irish Space Mission (none / 1)

to send 3 men and a dog to the Sun. (sorry. Colman). To avoid the problems of extreme heat, they planned to go at night.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 04:16:34 PM EST
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I would be the perfect solution but hey, we wouldn't want all of that stuff to fall back onto Earth over a very wide radius because of a loose joint or ceramiac tile.

by Alex in Toulouse on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:20:29 PM EST
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Or because the rocket was designed using American units and built using English units, or something like that.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:25:14 PM EST
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Redesign (none / 0)

Have to do a complete re-think and re-design of the whole banana.

How about a Beanstalk to LEO and Ion-Drives on the other side of the Van Allen belt.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Fri Apr 28th, 2006 at 03:38:34 PM EST
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Finland buries its nuclear past | 74 comments (74 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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