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If we can learn everything we need to know about nuclear explosions using something that approximates them without having to actually detonate them then this is
by throwaway4aday 4y ago
If we can learn everything we need to know about nuclear explosions using something that approximates them without having to actually detonate them then this is still a good thing. Nuclear weapons are terrible but advancing the study of nuclear explosions may have many unforeseen uses that we would be worse off without.
- SiempreViernes 4y ago> Nuclear weapons are terrible You hold this view but also that actively performing research and development to support their future use is a price worth paying for maybe getting some unexpected benefit? How dear a price on the means you willing to pay for an entirely hypothetical end?
- throwaway4aday 4y agoIf humanity is ever going to advance beyond grubbing around on the surface of this planet then we are going to have to continue to create and master extremely dangerous things. Nuclear energy is one of those, both fission and fusion. If it's possible, we should also find a way to control gravity. The weapons applications of such a technology would be far beyond anything we are capable of doing with a nuclear bomb. Does this mean we should ban all research into gravity? Even something as innocuous as orbital mechanics can create a weapon much more powerful than a nuclear bomb. Get a small rocket engine and enough fuel out to a big enough asteroid and you could obliterate an entire continent and nearly all life on earth. Should we ban space travel and exploration?
- SiempreViernes 4y agoOk, so for space you'd pay any price. Switching context but the same structure of question: how much dragnet surveillance do you support on the possibility of maybe averting some crime?