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Safe-Keeper said:
Planes are very safe, until hijacked and flown into highrise buildings.
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Actually you bring up an interesting dichotomy between Thunder's logical fallacy and reality. Would you still say planes are safe even though the same sort of failure involving multiple redundant systems being lost have happened in the past?
 
technoextreme said:
Actually you bring up an interesting dichotomy between Thunder's logical fallacy and reality. Would you still say planes are safe even though the same sort of failure involving multiple redundant systems being lost have happened in the past?
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You know, that Airbus that went down in the Atlantic last year seems to have just fallen out of the sky. Hundreds dead. We did not ban air travel.
 
bikerdruid said:
nuclear power safe?

apparently not.:(
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Regarding the current disaster in Japan, can you tell me how many people have died as a result of the troubles with the nuclear plants?

Now take that number and compare it to the number of people killed in the earthquake & subsequent tsunami. Then come back and start spewing your nonsense about how nuclear power "isn't safe" :rolleyes:
 
Travis said:
Total number of civilians killed by this nuclear incident: 0

And I'm reading that the elevated radiation levels went down after the explosion indicating they may have just been picking up elevated levels from other industries put into the air by the earthquake/tsunami.
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Yes, and those elevated radiation levels went down so quickly because 1) the radioactive steam/gas was quickly dispersed by the wind, and 2) most of the radioactive isotopes in said steam/gas are of the very short half-life variety, which means they decay into a harmless state very quickly.

But apparently that information doesn't make for good headlines :rolleyes:
 
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BenBurch said:
You know, that Airbus that went down in the Atlantic last year seems to have just fallen out of the sky. Hundreds dead. We did not ban air travel.
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I could one up that. Supposedly*, the government recently admitted culpability in contributing to my grandpa's death. Mind you he helped build a nuclear reactor which I actually have proof of. Don't particularly think it has any bearing on the issue.
*I'm relying on information from my mother.
 
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Aepervius said:
The psychological damage would not be that bad if the media did their job, instead of going for Sensationalist yellow journalism. Selling is more important than informing. That , or they are totally incompetent.
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This ^^^

The ham-fisted reporting by far too many media outlets makes them active contributors to the psychological damage. Stupid bastards :mad:
 
dudalb said:
It called the NIMBY factor. And both parties are sacared of it.
A lot of people who say they support nuclear power get cold feet when there is talk of a plant in a 20 Mile radius of where they live.
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I have to laugh when people I work with get all gooey on the anti-nuke talk... until I point out to them that we get the vast majority of our electricity from nuclear plants in Illinois. After I make the point that the lights wouldn't be on around here without nuclear plants, most of them tend to shut up.
 
MattusMaximus said:
I have to laugh when people I work with get all gooey on the anti-nuke talk... until I point out to them that we get the vast majority of our electricity from nuclear plants in Illinois. After I make the point that the lights wouldn't be on around here without nuclear plants, most of them tend to shut up.
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We had a hand in inventing it here.
 
Nosi said:
You only need to look at Grade B Sci Fi to see why people are loosing their brown over the reactors. How many mutant monsters have been spawned by the wonder of the Atom gone wrong?
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Fictional ones: plenty

Real ones: 0

Even this guy thinks the hysteria over all of this is stupid :)

 
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