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“A few people here may die” is a relatively serious nuclear accident. Worse than three-mile island at least.
by aqme28 4y ago
“A few people here may die” is a relatively serious nuclear accident. Worse than three-mile island at least.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI don’t disagree. But I wonder if the cost to recovering this pellet would save more lives spent in another way.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoA few grand to dig it out of a wall? A few hundo to slap some lead shielding over it (it is an X-ray source after all)? In any case the primary expense is going to be one of paying off all the people to get the right approvals. Crunching the numbers on how to safely rectify it and actually going through those actions will be dirt cheap compared to getting someone with the "right credentials" to tell the government, the insurers and whoever else that your obvious solution any highschooler can crunch the numbers on is in fact acceptable
- Waterluvian 4y agoI think finding it is the expensive part.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoIt pretty much broadcasts its location if you wave the right instrumentation around.
- Symbiote 4y agoYou "just" need to wave that instrument over 1400km of highway, potentially with a 100m+ width if the capsule has been kicked some distance away by a truck tyre.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI’m trying to imagine the scale of this. I guess it depends on how close you have to be to pick up the signal. And how many false signals there might be.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoI was talking about the "gets concreted into a wall" case.
- sebastien_b 4y agoDid you work at Ford as an executive during the Pinto era?
- Waterluvian 4y agoI insist they are safe at any speed so long as you keep their gas tanks empty!
- mc32 4y agoIt seems the pinto narrative was framed in way to make it look worse but compared to other cars of similar type it wasn’t all that bad[1]. This exaggerated narrative despite vindicating data is perpetuated in biz ethics. [1] https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/10/17/misunderstood-cars-the-ford-pinto https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2017/10/17/misunderstood-ca...
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoYup. The lesson to be learned once you dig into it is "if you're doing some industry standard thing that someone could ever potentially portray as seedy definitely don't document it".
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