Re: Nuclear Waste to the Sun Re: Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge

[Ronn Blankenship]

At 04:40 PM 7/3/01, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>At 09:33 PM 7/2/01 +0100 Andrew Crystall wrote:
> >Salt Domes? Any IDEA how expensive buring waste under them is.
> >Monitoring them for thousands of years...nah.
>
>I think we'd only need to monitor them for a couple hundred years.   And
>burying them in the far corners of Nevada can't be *that* expensive.....
>not compared to the space program.
>
>
> > And let's face it...firing a little radioactive waste into the
> >sun isn't about to hurt it...
>
>I have one word for you:
>
>Challenger
>
>JDG
>
>P.S. Just imagine if that puppy had nuclear waste in its payload.


Read it again, John.  It says "firing a little radioactive waste into the 
sun isn't about to hurt it."  Depending on what the antecedent of "it" is, 
that statement parses to either "firing a little radioactive waste into the 
sun isn't about to hurt _the sun_" or perhaps "firing a little radioactive 
waste into the sun isn't about to hurt _the radioactive waste_."  The 
sentence as written says nothing whatsoever about harm to the folks back on 
Earth . . .

;-)


-- Ronn!  :)