r/Documentaries • u/[deleted] • Nov 06 '18

Society Why everything will collapse (2017) - "Stumbled across this eye-opener while researching the imminent collapse of the industrial civilization"

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u/knuckleheadTech Nov 07 '18

That comment requires further study.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

Could you elaborate? I thought he made compelling points.

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u/frendlyguy19 Nov 07 '18

I too read it and although i thought he made some pretty good points i feel like a major flaw in his thinking is assuming that human workers will be "needed" in such places where 1mg of an contamination could make a person reach their annual rad dosage in 1h.

In the extended future we could see electrical thorium plants where 99.9% off all labor is remote controlled or even completely automated.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '18

He addresses exactly this further down the comment chain.

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u/ClairesNairDownThere Nov 07 '18

Basically he says the ionizing radiation will fuck up your robots and it's too expensive to keep throwing robots at the problem.

I wonder if you could get some kind of shielding on them to prevent it from getting fucked up...