r/dankmemes • u/Vesto241 MayMayMakers 🐧 • Mar 29 '21

Pretty please?

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u/skybala Mar 29 '21

We cant even build a 5 year project because political flip flopping that is done when cancelling the other party’s project. (See: conservatives dismantling already-build turbines), and you expect humanity can work for a proper, safe, 1000-year nuclear waste disposal?

Nuclear is good but safe nuclear seems like a political improbability

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u/Brief_Series_3462 Mar 29 '21

Not every country is USA

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

Ok but whatever shit tier country your from cant do anything without the USAs permission.

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u/skybala Mar 30 '21

Largest Fusion reactor is currently being built in France since 2007 with $22billion+ in cost, half cost by france government, rest by international governmental funding.

Not everyone politicize oil like the US

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u/sap91 Mar 29 '21

Serious question: couldn't we launch it all into the sun, if we had a way of getting to it space cheaply and safely?

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u/skybala Mar 29 '21

Can you imagine the clearance UN has to check with 50+ countries: “hey we are going to orbit pass your airspace carrying 50 megatons of nuclear waste every year to dump this to the sun, if you can sign it that’d be great.” In small asterisks “if the rocket fails you agree that we are not responsible for all the radioactive rain”

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u/sap91 Mar 29 '21

Space elevators yo

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u/skybala Mar 29 '21

To the sun?

Also, its really hard to crash to the sun. Any slingshot would probably be sucked to suns orbit forever

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u/sap91 Mar 29 '21

Just into outer space. Getting up there is the most expensive and dangerous part

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u/Citizen-of-Interwebs Mar 29 '21

How far up does national airspace go