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Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:41 pm
by Mogan
Soviets may be very nice, but they are not careful. Tsjernobyl was blown to dust because one of them forgot to secure one of the nuclear reactors!!!
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:41 pm
by Finaero
GeeJee wrote:I bet if they decide to launch one of their nucleair bombs and aim it at America, it'll blow their very own kremlin. They have other things to worry about I guess...
I think that's a bit of an understatement
I'm glad that we never got to find out what was the true situation though
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:08 pm
by GeeJee
Vieon wrote:Hey, Soviets were peaceful people. Check the history books for more info (Cuban Missile crisis was actually averted by the Commies. Yay.)
You are mixing up Soviets with Russians. Russia was only called Soviet Union between 1917 and 1989 when they were being communist. /offtopic
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:00 pm
by Finaero
GeeJee wrote:You are mixing up Soviets with Russians. Russia was only called Soviet Union between 1917 and 1989 when they were being communist. /offtopic
Officially, 1922-1991, it was just Soviet Russia from 1917-1922.
As for soviets being peaceful, I'd say they were as peaceful as americans during the Cold War.
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:24 pm
by Livgivare
No land is better then the other!
Love Leelene
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:24 pm
by AnDrOiD
PMgep wrote:AnDrOiD wrote:I'm against nuclear power, and we Danes have been fighting the Swedes for many years to make them shut down the Barsebäck power plant. It has finally paid off!
Yes, so now we have to buy energy from the danish coal plants instead. Very enviromental...
It's not that bad.
http://www.ooa.dk/bb/gunytter.htm
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:26 pm
by BnM
Whatever happened to Flower Power.
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:27 pm
by GeeJee
Leelene wrote:No land is better then the other!
Jean Michel would disagree. (According to a certain speech at the Gdansk concert...)
plate of chips wrote:Whatever happened to Flower Power.
LOL!
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:32 pm
by Livgivare
I must have the shortest memory...but what country was the best according to Jarre?
Love Leelene
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:33 pm
by AnDrOiD
Must be Denmark!
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:43 pm
by Vieon
Finaero wrote:GeeJee wrote:You are mixing up Soviets with Russians. Russia was only called Soviet Union between 1917 and 1989 when they were being communist. /offtopic
Officially, 1922-1991, it was just Soviet Russia from 1917-1922.
As for soviets being peaceful, I'd say they were as peaceful as americans during the Cold War.
Perhaps, but they didn't have some huge McCarthyism thing going on
And wasn't Chernobyl in 1986? It wasn't the Soviet leaderships fault, just some guy was a bit dim-witted and managed to create a meltdown situation.
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:17 pm
by Finaero
Vieon wrote:
Perhaps, but they didn't have some huge McCarthyism thing going on
Yeah, but they had gulags and Stalin
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:37 pm
by Vieon
Stalin wasn't really a Communist though. He betrayed all the Communist ideals in a mad lust for power. I'd describe him as far-right, with a heavy spattering of authoritarianism.
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 9:53 pm
by Finaero
Hmm, we're going a wee bit offtopic here
Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:01 pm
by AMR
You are missing the point...
You all see m to mean "electrical power" (the thing synths, mixing desks and JMJ CD players work on), not Nuke.
Current nuclear power breaks atoms and produces heat.
This heat makes water boil and produce steam.
Steam makes turbines rotate... and there you go, electricity.
And these turbines produce power, the electrical power.
Oil burned also produces heat... blablabla... also produces power, the electrical kind.
Wind also makes turbines rotate, also produces power, the one you want.
Water going through paddles also makes turbines rotate.. and guess what you get? Right on... electrical power.
So, nuke power is only potential power ready to be turned into kinetic one, to rotate paddles, like all (and more) the above, to produce alternate electrical current.
I'm for clean ways of producing power, cold nuclear fission (melting atoms in standart temp) is not a reality yet, nuclear cision (exploding the releasing huge amounts of explosive energy) leaves radioactive residues way to dangerous for tens of thousands of years, though few grams of cheap uranium provides way more than millions of gallons of oil, and the pluton residue can also produce even more destructive uncontrolable energy.
My opinion?
Nuke maybe safe and cheap, but soon way to much radioactive residues will start harming something or someone, unless fusion is a comercial reality quite quite soon.
Kind Regards,
AMR
http://www.alvaromrocha.com