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Originally Posted by Concrete
the reality of radiation is much worse than monsters
you cannot see it, tastes it or detect without a mechanical device
it last for tens of thousands of years
it cannot be cleaned up or remediated in any way other than burial & time
and it kills you in horrible ways, often slowly and grotesquely
I would take Godzilla instead of radiation any day  |
Thank you for so effectively demonstrating my point :-)
You've been so - yes, let me use the word - brainwashed by the "evil nuclear radiation" meme that you can't or won't separate truth from fantasy.
Fact is, "radiation" doesn't last for tens of thousands of years, it lasts forever (or at least until the heat death of the universe, a good few trillion years from now). Everything is radioactive, to some degree, and always will be. We are bathed in a constant sea of radiation.
(Possibly apocryphical story: a former co-worker told me of a time when he worked for the state of Oregon in an engineering capacity, and was called to testify before a legislative committee on proposed legislation to regulate nuclear radiation. His response: "Well, you could do yada & yada (pointing out the costs), but you're going to have real problems when it comes to turning off the sun".)
Likewise WRT the dangers: sure, too much radiation can kill you. So can too much of almost anything else, from food (more people die each day from the consequences of over-eating than from all the nuclear accidents in history) to sunlight to drinking water. If you need a mechanical device to detect radiation, so what? You need much more complicated devices to detect many hazardous chemicals. It's also far easier to clean up the radioactive products of a nuclear reactor (which non-Soviet bureaucrats put inside a containment structure) than the fossil-fuel exhaust that's dumped in the air. And so on...