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And who will be paying for the guards in the year 8017? How will the fence be doing? Will anyone still be speaking English to read the signs?
by beat 9y ago
And who will be paying for the guards in the year 8017? How will the fence be doing?
Will anyone still be speaking English to read the signs?
- mikeash 9y agoThere's lots of highly dangerous non-nuclear waste which stays dangerous forever, and we don't worry about this. The best answer to those questions is to do our best to ensure that civilization doesn't collapse in the first place.
- beat 9y agoI don't wear a seat belt, because I do my best not to get into accidents.
- mikeash 9y agoWhat's the plan for warning future civilizations away from mercury, arsenic, and other long-lived toxic waste? The current approach for those things is to dump it in a suitable landfill or similar, and let it be. Nobody seems worried about what happens when some future civilization discovers it thousands of years hence.
- beat 9y agoMaybe we should be worried.
- wbl 9y agoThey already have places full of mercury naturally: cinnabar mines.
- mikeash 9y agoMaybe. But I find it really weird that people constantly wring their hands over a few thousand tons of nuclear waste because it remains dangerous for ten thousand years, yet pay almost no attention to millions of tons of chemical waste that remains dangerous until the end of time. I realize people can't worry about every single thing, and worrying about one thing doesn't mean other things aren't a problem. But at the same time, I see lots of people say that nuclear is worse than fossil fuels because of the waste problem, which makes no sense to me at all.
- ghostbrainalpha 9y agoMan... I don't even care about "the millennials" who were born like 10 years after me. Those privileged 8017'ers can get a new planet with their alien buddies if they don't like the Nuclear waste on this one. It's not like those fuckers leave their data plane and transubstantiate into physical reality (go outside) very often anyways.