Re: [DOEWatch] Understanding the tsunami threat to coastal nuclea r power pla...

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 06/21/2001 11:52:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 

frantaj@AECL.CA writes:



> Neil, David wrote :
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> Well, if you go somewhere outside the Oort Cloud, the probability of an
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> encounter drops to effectively zero in a human lifetime. };-D
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> Not that it's realistically greater than zero for any given spot on Terra
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> for the same timespan.
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> <><><><><><><><><><><><><>
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>
> ....but recall that Barbara Hamrick's question was :
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>  
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> "What I want to know is, how do I get to the nearest asteroid-free zone?" 
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> ....note the "how" !
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> ....may I suggest nuclear propulsion as the most rapid means, providing the
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> shortest exposure to cosmic radiation en route ?
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> ...and since the Oort Cloud surrounds the Solar System fairly uniformly, may
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> I suggest a route that takes you past that potulated earth-threatening
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> asteroid and blow it off course with one or more nuclear bombs ?
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> OK, enough of this silliness already...


Thank you both.  I'll be purchasing my anti-radiation travel ensemble soon 

and a ticket on the first ship outta Oort I can find.


Barbara <---didn't think there had been quite enough silliness just yet