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This spill occurred 40 years ago. Humans are capable of improvement over time. Look at airline safety, for example.
by 7e 3y ago
This spill occurred 40 years ago. Humans are capable of improvement over time. Look at airline safety, for example.
- bmitc 3y ago> Look at airline safety, for example. Like the Boeing 737 Max?
- qup 3y agoNo, like the aggregate
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoIt may sound heartless but we can make new people. We can’t make an uninhabitable environment habitable.
- KSPAtlas 3y agoWell technically, space is an uninhabitable environment and people can temporarily live there fine
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoWell technically I would say that people aren't "living in space" I would say they are living in a space station.
- 7e 3y agoOur environment is rapidly becoming uninhabitable though carbon dioxide emissions. Venus, here we come.
- CTDOCodebases 3y agoTrue but I don’t understand how an engineer can design a safe nuclear power plant for a rapidly uninhabitable environment. It might be the only option though. People like to latch onto things thinking they are an obvious perfect solution without honestly recognising the costs.
- CatWChainsaw 3y agoFish Was Right
- worik 3y ago> No, like the aggregate Not very comforting. Just one bad accident can destroy so much more than aircraft
- bmitc 3y agoThere were a lot of people, companies, agencies, and policies that failed in the 737 Max debacle. It was a systemic failure and not some random, individual, isolated event.
- panick21_ 3y agoAnd yet overall its still very safe to go into a modern airplane.
- AmVess 3y agoImproved so much in this case, they have done nothing about it in 40 years and it keeps getting worse.
- sgt101 3y agoIt's actually the inverse - in the last 40 years this spill has been radiating away and getting less dangerous. However, for that period people have been exposed to it, and it's been sitting there as an accident waiting to happen if (for example) the site gets flooded.
- AmVess 3y agoYou did not read the article, you did not read my post, and you didn't read yours, for that matter.
- jmclnx 3y agoMy guess, with a certain US Political Party cutting funding for things like the EPA and Super Fund Activities, I would guess no one had the funds to properly diagnose and do the appropriate cleanup. So they decided it was good enough for "now" until this was discovered. I would say the Company that caused the spill will get away without paying cleanup costs. That is what usually happens with these type of Environmental Damage in the US.
- 7e 3y agoThere is also a risk to disturbing the site. Sometimes leaving something alone is the best option.