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Radioactive materials really are the closest thing we have to ancient demons.
They can give you unlimited power, but it’s always an uneasy bargain. They must be contained in special places where no human can go, and the people tasked with keeping them sealed must be vigilant, with never a moment’s careless inattention, or they might get loose.
If anything ever goes wrong, they wreak havoc. And afterwards, that place is cursed beyond repair. No one can look upon it. No one can go there. If they do, they will die in horrible ways, with no hope of salvation. Machines that try to trespass will break. Film cannot develop, or is ruined. They must simply be left in the tomb, alone and undisturbed, forever.
That one grainy photo of the elephant’s foot is absolutely chilling to me, like a monster from another world lurking silently underground.
You can also bargain with them to destroy the cities of your enemies. There is no limit to the power. Whole continents laid waste, simply by the right type of priesthood making the right incantations. But for almost a century, no one has dared to do it, because of what might come.
And afterwards, that place is cursed beyond repair. No one can look upon it
Here’s a guy looking upon it 30 years ago, 10 years after the accident.
You wouldn’t want to sleep next to it, and you certainly wouldn’t want to breath it in, but it’s not going to kill anyone who looks at it.
How do we know prehistoric people didn’t cause a uranium explosion and then either died within a radius or swore to never use it again
Yes, we’re that dumb. The China Syndrome, a movie about on out-of-control reactor meltdown, hit theaters 12-days (March 16, 1979) before the Three Mile Island incident (March 28, 1979). The US quit building reactors because of a Hollywood movie.
Also, we buy the rocks from dictators.
Eh, kinda. The largest uranium reserves in the world are in Australia, and the highest grade uranium deposits are in Canada. The western US has large reserves that don’t require international trade (though they’re mostly in federally protected land so it would take a lot of government action to actually start mining it).
That said, Kazakhstan does the most uranium mining at the moment by a wide margin and they’re not exactly a shining example of democracy. They’re responsible for 25% of US uranium imports.
Some of the largest deposits of uranium in the world are in Brazil, not currently a dictatorship, but also not being mined.
Yes, and yes.
Worse, that time we think of(3 Mile Island), the safeties worked. Things were fine.
Two other events were issues, but not “my” issue.
I think what would give cavemen pause would be if the house was on fire for 20,000 years.
That said, we definitely should have stayed on nuclear.
Don’t know why you’re being down voted, that’s accurate. Dresden was set fucking alight like 80 years ago and was rebuilt. Chernobyl?
And yes, it’s arguably cleaner than most fuel, just know what yours doing and don’t put it on a flood plane!
Chernobyl shows that worst case scenario is that we get large wildlife preserves.
Their comment agitates both the “nuclear bad” crowd and the “nuclear good” crowd :(
Ahhh, I get ya.
Nuclear power is usually not abandoned for being dangerous, but because it’s weirdly complex to keep it safe as compared to the alternatives. This makes it one of the most expensive ways to produce energy (at least given European regulations). Also, the raw material is expected to be quite rare relatively soon.
I guess this may be more about the way caveman made their fire… and the multi-billion cavedollar structure for holding the magic stone can be annoying.
What if he burned down every house within 50 miles and the landscape didn’t recover for decades? What if it happened again and again?
What if we constantly subsidized industries that made our climate unlivable?
Nuclear is a sound option. We already deal with mining wastes that must be managed in perpetuity. Nuclear waste isn’t much different in that regard.
Your point about landscapes also happens in mining.
Yes, we should be moving to solar instead of propping up uneconomic polluting industries like nuclear or coal.
Just a reminder, coal power releases more radiation per year than the totality of radiation released by nuclear power including all nuclear accidents and disasters… And it’s not even close.
It’s disingenuous to compare radiation which is diffused globally via the atmosphere with ground contamination which is localized and thousands of times too dangerous for human habitation.
You’re saying don’t worry about the toxic waste dump next door because there’s air pollution everywhere.
What if instead of scary magic rocks that release bad juju, what if we went back to the burney rocks that also put out even more bad juju than the scary rocks and makes the sky fairies mad and fired up? That would protect us from the scary event, even if it was much worse long term.
The “pre historic” people who witness the [r-word] burning his house down would not be able to spread their story (along with the fear of fire) before they go extinct because they lacked such a crucial technology. In contrast, stories like Chernobyl can have its story around the world before you can even walk 1% of the circumference.
Retard burnt his house so bad no one could have a house in the state he fucked up in.
Still agree lol
