That's one expensive hole...
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saw that on CCN like an hour ago. kinda annoying that you think you are actually gunna see hole, but then you just see a mountain a few miles from the place
Yeah, there's concrete encased cans all over the US that are storing high level radioactive waste meant to got to that place. Sitting there in your back yard still after we've spent billions on Yucca Mountain.
It makes you wonder though... why they won't let media even look at the entrance of the hole... I mean the project is now dead, and was gona be used for storing nuclear waste even though they haven't even started that yet. But I guess its this universal policy that anything under the "Department of energy" such as power plants and such, would be deemed secret/protected against possible terrorist attack.
... Instead of spending billions for nukes... could we not just lob these concrete encased cans at enemy countries cracking them open around the regions.
Other than to people, not like it could do much harm just sitting in the middle of a dry and desolate area with hardly anyone around. (hell could remake the tower of babel out in the middle of the desert with those cans). It would serve the same purpose too, no one would understand each other between the mental retardation, or their vocal cords falling out.
Maybe they didn't want to show you the hole because they're working on the 20 billion dollar dildo that goes with it ... as a scientific research conducted by KY.
This might be overly simplistic, but can't we just load this shit on some disposable rockets, and launch them on a path to the sun. Hell, there's enough nuclear activity going on each second on the sun that its not like it would pollute anything. I guess if you had a rocket fail or fall out of the sky then you might have a small problem.
Britain alone has over 50,000 tons of radioactive waste sitting somewhere... any idea how to get even 25% of that off the ground?
i know this may sound a little ridiculous, but could removing so much mass from our planet cause to escape/alter orbit. i've always thought about that with the moon as well. we build on the moon, is it enough mass to alter either of our orbits.
escape velocity takes mass into account, so it is definitely plausible
escape velocity takes mass into account, so it is definitely plausible
Our crust (the solid land) is only something like 2% of the total mass of earth. But the earthquake in chile did alter our earth's rotation to a point that we need to add something like 10 miliseconds to a day (or was it nanoseconds... either way it was deemed practically insignificant, but big deal to the science geeks).
This is a storage area 60 miles from my house. I'm certain that this is the NRC containment standard relative to the construction at Yucca Mountain. I don't know if you can get an idea of the scale of these things - obviously not practical rocket cargo. That's just the spoils from a single decommissioned nuke plant.
All it would take is for one lost rocket to really fuck us over. Just imagine if it exploded in our atmosphere. It would really fucking suck. And given the frequency at which we lose space bound vehicles, I'm not to eager to explore this option.