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

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

For top-notch cost/effectiveness, just wait 'til you folks see my Mk

2002 Trebuchet Mod 2.

(probably shouldn't even sign this}

maury Siskel     maury@webtexas.com

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BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:



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

> frantaj@AECL.CA writes:



> Neil, David wrote :

>

>> Well, if you go somewhere outside the Oort Cloud, the probability of

>> an

>> encounter drops to effectively zero in a human lifetime. };-D

>>

>> Not that it's realistically greater than zero for any given spot on

>> Terra

>> for the same timespan.

>> <><><><><><><><><><><><><>

>> ....but recall that Barbara Hamrick's question was :

>> "What I want to know is, how do I get to the nearest asteroid-free

>> zone?"

>> ....note the "how" !

>>

>> ....may I suggest nuclear propulsion as the most rapid means,

>> providing the

>> shortest exposure to cosmic radiation en route ?

>> ...and since the Oort Cloud surrounds the Solar System fairly

>> uniformly, may

>> I suggest a route that takes you past that potulated

>> earth-threatening

>> asteroid and blow it off course with one or more nuclear bombs ?

>> 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



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