i've never understood the problem with Nuclear waste. Can't we just launch it off earth with a rocket and make it some other planets problem? Both us and the Ruskies put dogs and shit in space in the era of black and white tv, we can't do the same thing 50 years later with a non living package?

Oops, sorry for the babies with extra limbs, Florida.

Ohio, anyone?

Florida?

New York is a solidly Democratic state. Not the 'true general election.'

One, can't really remember the last time we had a space launch disaster. Sure they happen but our margin for error seems to be pretty well shored up.

Two, we can launch multiple planes off of an aircraft carrier, lets do something similar at sea with a rocket.

Would it be expensive and have possibly few/no other applications? Maybe. But i'd hope we could get some other world super powers to throw down on the bill, i know Japan likely has some waste they'd like to get rid of so would the Russians.

Launch it at the sun I say. Or if it explodes at least the saying "nuke the whales" will finally have some meaning!

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 20 2016 08:41am

Does Bernie continue trashing Clinton and the party or does he go back to the issues?

Still talking about a path toward victory

He did pretty terrible last night and polling was showing most (not young) democrats are going end up voting for Hillary

I hope he decides to get back on track with the message and not egg on his angry youngsters but I have a feeling he is on the verge of some crazy grandpa type of campaigning

close out strong old man

I think Bernie is an old coward so he'll begin to back off from Clinton.

...not only prohibitively expensive and incredibly dangerous but it fails to account for the actual amount of waste we have stored up .

make the idiots great again !

Bernie still has a path to victory

Let's not forget wise words from Hillary back in 08 when she refused to get out early because RFK was shot in June

Prohibitively expensive as a business venture sure, as a combined effort of the World's biggest players? I think less so.

Incredibly dangerous? Of course, as is storing nuclear waste on our planet. But as the waste isn't really going anywhere there isn't a deadline. And it wouldn't be actually built unless the engineering worked out in far less expensive simulations and tests on scale.

We have to find a way to get rid of this shit, pour 50 ft of concrete on top of it, launch it to space, whatever.

This whole topic has me wondering though, adjusted for inflation how much less expensive is space travel today than in the Rocket boom during the cold war? Is it really THAT expensive to create a rocket that has a 1 way trip? I would imagine a big part of the expense in a space shuttle is the need for it to survive reentry and land without murdering the crew. Which is entirely unneeded in this application.

This post was edited by thesnipa on Apr 20 2016 09:11am