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Please, HN: read more about fukushima. This could be the end of it all. All of human history could go out in the blink of an eye.
by JacksonGariety 10y ago
Please, HN: read more about fukushima.
This could be the end of it all. All of human history could go out in the blink of an eye.
- kashkhan 10y agoFukushima was badly built, badly protected, and badly operated. First few decades airplanes were deadly. Now not so much. All tech can be tamed if you put in the effort.
- JacksonGariety 10y agoBut what if someone doesn't. A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
- kashkhan 10y agoyes. Modern large airplanes are more complex than reactors and have more uncertainty, and have more places on the chain they can go wrong. But they don't, at least not in the US in last 15 years. Why?
- Ygg2 10y agoFukushima was also befell by a strongest tsunami in decades. And even then, the greatest damage was by the tidal wave.
- pvaldes 10y agoAll tech can be tamed, the problem is "tamed by who and for doing what against who?". As any sirian children could teach us, airplanes are deadlier than ever.
- kashkhan 10y agotechnology enables. it doesn't care about life or death. It's not supposed to. Humans are supposed to are about life or death. Take your beef up with humans using tech to kill.
- grzm 10y agoWhat resources have you found particularly useful? I've seen more than one comment on HN cite how few human lives have been lost as a result of Fukushima, which is one metric that can be used to quantify the effects of a nuclear reactor disaster. I'm not arguing that it's a useful metric, so recommending concise references available that support your position would be very helpful.
- rhino369 10y agoNo power reactor disaster could end human civilization.