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Wonder and whimsy on the Web

Posted: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:49 AM by Alan Boyle

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IG Nobels...by next year Algore will top the list...betcha!,
Must play more video games . . . be prepared . . .
Ha-ha!  Um... and here I thought I good field guide on edible plants was all you needed to prepare :)!  That was so funny how serious they all seemed.  Hey... um... will a bomb-proof/ultra-energy efficient home work :)?  ...one where you can disperse your remaining forces away from highly vulnerable centralized bases to conduct advanced recon for insurgent special forces???  :)  With protected garage bays able to secure your mad-max like armored cars?  Where troops exposed to bio-hazards and venemous lizards can at least use the bathroom without having to entre the main home :)!  Ug... the John Connor in me just wants to shine!  T2 on Genisis taught me all I need to know in a world, not full of zombies, but death-dealing robots from the future!  The truth be told, a Canary island-generated tusnami is likely the worst/semi-realistic disaster we can possbly face short of nuclear war.  With coastal nulear reactors laying exposed for years and the lost of six or seven major coastal cities, the radiated Zombies will be coming!  

Alan, I just heard on MSNBC that Obama plans to cancel yuca mountain.  Ya know, I know nuclear power can be safe but it's just too darn toxic in a world where a global colaps or disaster can send us back to the stone age.  Sure, you can turn off a reactor, but will it sit there politely for 75 years unrepaired regardless of floods and other disasters?  We need a waste repository.  If yaca mountain isn't it, some other place better darn well be!


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