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Really makes me wonder what the world would be like now if Watergate hadn’t happened: https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-richard-nixon-so-strongly-endorse-nucle

by Lammy 4y ago

Really makes me wonder what the world would be like now if Watergate hadn’t happened: https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-richard-nixon-so-strongly-endorse-nuclear-energy-in-april-1973/ https://atomicinsights.com/why-did-richard-nixon-so-strongly...

downrightmike 4y ago
If Nixon hadn't sent his people to Vietnam in the late 60's and promise the Vietcong a better deal if they walked away from negotiations, He wouldn't have been able to run on 'winning the war' and we would have been out of Vietnam FIVE YEARS EARILER. Nixon was a fuck up, and is still screwing the world today. Piece of shit.
- matthewdgreen 4y ago
  Well, at least the Viet Cong got their better deal, right?
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- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  No need to go back that far, the irak war after 9/11 was a resource hog by itself. 600 trillions if I recall ?
devgonewild 4y ago
The world would be a better place if Nixon never existed, how is it possible for one person to do so much damage
jpeter 4y ago
Or imagine if Chernobyl didn't happen.
akiselev 4y ago
Nixon canceled the Mars program where the vast majority of cutting edge nuclear research was happening - tech like the nuclear lightbulb (search my comments for details) that could have matured and saved us by now. He was no friend to nuclear, just the entrenched nuclear industry.
- pfdietz 4y ago
  This is magical thinking. No, nuclear light bulbs would have made absolutely no sense for use on Earth.
  - akiselev 4y ago
    Yes, they would have. Still do. In fact, they built several experimental setups and were just short of testing fissile material before the program was canceled. If anyone would like a starting point for research instead of lobotomized rhetoric like "this is magical thinking", request this paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19750027209 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19750027209
    - pfdietz 4y ago
      Yes, let's vaporize nuclear fuel. What could possibly go wrong with this stunning large brain engineering. It is surely no more burdensome on materials than solid fuel sealed away in metal tubes. /s
      - akiselev 4y ago
        Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared? Read the papers, they explain it all and characterize the tests.
        pfdietz 4y ago
        Civilization advances by trying huge numbers of things, most of which are horrible and bad. The rare winning technologies survive. Implying that nuclear lightbulbs for terrestrial generation would have been in this elite group of winning technologies is just ludicrous.

by Lammy 4y ago

downrightmike 4y ago

If Nixon hadn't sent his people to Vietnam in the late 60's and promise the Vietcong a better deal if they walked away from negotiations, He wouldn't have been able to run on 'winning the war' and we would have been out of Vietnam FIVE YEARS EARILER. Nixon was a fuck up, and is still screwing the world today. Piece of shit.

matthewdgreen 4y ago
Well, at least the Viet Cong got their better deal, right?
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BiteCode_dev 4y ago
No need to go back that far, the irak war after 9/11 was a resource hog by itself. 600 trillions if I recall ?

devgonewild 4y ago

The world would be a better place if Nixon never existed, how is it possible for one person to do so much damage

jpeter 4y ago

Or imagine if Chernobyl didn't happen.

akiselev 4y ago

Nixon canceled the Mars program where the vast majority of cutting edge nuclear research was happening - tech like the nuclear lightbulb (search my comments for details) that could have matured and saved us by now. He was no friend to nuclear, just the entrenched nuclear industry.

pfdietz 4y ago
This is magical thinking. No, nuclear light bulbs would have made absolutely no sense for use on Earth.
- akiselev 4y ago
  Yes, they would have. Still do. In fact, they built several experimental setups and were just short of testing fissile material before the program was canceled. If anyone would like a starting point for research instead of lobotomized rhetoric like "this is magical thinking", request this paper: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19750027209 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19750027209
  - pfdietz 4y ago
    Yes, let's vaporize nuclear fuel. What could possibly go wrong with this stunning large brain engineering. It is surely no more burdensome on materials than solid fuel sealed away in metal tubes. /s
    - akiselev 4y ago
      Yes that's how civilization was built. By pushing material science further and further. Do you think pressurized steam turbines just magically appeared? Read the papers, they explain it all and characterize the tests.
      - pfdietz 4y ago
        Civilization advances by trying huge numbers of things, most of which are horrible and bad. The rare winning technologies survive. Implying that nuclear lightbulbs for terrestrial generation would have been in this elite group of winning technologies is just ludicrous.