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> Nukes are not that useful for stuff other than extremely destructive explosions. I would like to mention that in the Fallout series, a game that depicts a di
by BudaDude 3y ago
> Nukes are not that useful for stuff other than extremely destructive explosions.
I would like to mention that in the Fallout series, a game that depicts a different version of history where nuclear power was widely accessible, cars and robots have their own nuclear generators. The reality is that if nuclear power was common, we would not have any problems with energy or a power grid.
- mrtksn 3y agoNukes and nuclear energy are different things. It’s also not a secret how to do these things, they teach it to kids. The complexities come from the engineering the device and that’s actually the secret part.
- taeric 3y agoThey aren't that different, all told. There is a reason IEDs are a huge safety concern. I'm failing to see how that wouldn't be worse with nuclear power sources. Or am I mistaken and you could make it so that IEDs from nuclear energy couldn't be done?
- mrtksn 3y agoIED's are not that much of safety concern actually. The people who intend to use those are. The risks of IEDs don't modulate by the number of people who know chemistry but by the number of people pissed of or delusional enough to make and use one. Portugal is not much safer from IEDs than Irak because Portuguese are bad at chemistry and Iraqis are all heisenbergs.
- taeric 3y agoI mean... you aren't wrong, having people willing to use an IED is the dangerous thing. More, they are as dangerous as the supplies that they can get ahold of. I... don't see how that doesn't put a massive hazard on the availability of nuclear power generators everywhere? We have people willing to make and deploy IEDs today. Why would we not have them if nuclear sources were ubiquitous? (If the idea is we would have the nuclear plants, but that the ubiquitous electronics would not have their own nuclear sources, I can see that. :) )
- mrtksn 3y agoI don't see how this is relevant. Knowing how to do something is not the same as doing it. Personally, I'm not anti-nuclear but I'm also not for proliferation of it simply because I don't trust that there are enough serious people to operate a nuclear plant in every city at the same safety levels we have today. That said, I will never advocate for hiding the knowledge for building those.
- taeric 3y agoI am pro nuclear, but portable nuclear generators would be a whole new can of worms.
- smegsicle 3y agoIEDs are a huge safety concern in battle zones, this isn't terry gilliam's brazil as the old analogy goes, how big of a chunk of metal do you need to weld to the rail to kill everyone on the train? which part of that should be more illegal? gun violence is a culture problem, not a security problem know your threat model
- taeric 3y agoI am only questioning nuclear generators. Such that comparing them to relatively inert metal welded to a rail seems disingenuous.