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Here's the crux of the problem. The experts pitch their case but in
the end it all boils down to "lay" people (no pun intended, but how convenient for my point, that this is the central paragraph of the article...): Jack Linthicum wrote: "I feel comfortable when we go through these kind of things," Brevard County emergency management chief Bob Lay said. "I would not feel comfortable if we didn't do this. This lets me see what kinds of problems it might present for the county and then to look at those kinds of problems and address those problems with some of the people here that are leaders in this field in the nation." I wonder how Mr. Lay would have felt had he gotten a different "assessment" from those without a vested interest in the mission and an anti-nuclear bias. The issue is there is no societal consensus on the value of space exploration. If this launch malfunctions it could be then end of nuclear space probes launched from the US, even if there is *no* radiological hazard resulting. When guys like Bob Lay become convinced that the risk just isn't worth it, you're finished. Prove to me that democratic governments have a good track record of opening frontiers. (I'm *not* talking about freely operating private enterprises). Dave |
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Robert Kolker wrote: Steve Hix wrote: It's more than nuclear-thermal engines that have been affected; any kind of nuclear power source in space gets kicked around. That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. Bob Kolker so is non-ionizing radiation http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiation_n...ing/index.html |
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Jack Linthicum wrote:
Robert Kolker wrote: Steve Hix wrote: It's more than nuclear-thermal engines that have been affected; any kind of nuclear power source in space gets kicked around. That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. Bob Kolker so is non-ionizing radiation http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/radiation_n...ing/index.html So is staying outdoors in the Sun too long. Therefore we should eliminate the Sun! |
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Robert Kolker wrote:
That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. Half-baked gogglebox do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you! Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. /ff |
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Steve Hix wrote:
It's more than nuclear-thermal engines that have been affected; any kind of nuclear power source in space gets kicked around. That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. Bob Kolker |
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Jochem Huhmann wrote: And I even dimly remember some russian, err, soviet mission with an (experimental?) ion engine much earlier... can't find it right now. It was some interplanetary probe, I think. At the time, some in the U.S. thought Voskhod 1 was equipped with ion engines due to a somewhat garbled Soviet description of the spacecraft which stated it had "ion plotters of the direction of the ship's velocity vector". What these really were was a set of ion detectors that allowed the spacecraft to determine its orientation in relation to its orbital path. Pat |
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FearlessFerret wrote:
Robert Kolker wrote: That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. Half-baked gogglebox do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you! Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too. /ff I'm not sure one hundred / year is the correct dose, but according to this Yale study Rachel Carson should have eaten a hormetic dose of DDT. http://spacebombardment.blogspot.com...r-and-ddt.html "{cancer}odds ratio is ... 0.8 {20% less} ... for DDT when the highest {exposure} quartile was compared with the lowest." |
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Robert Kolker wrote: Steve Hix wrote: It's more than nuclear-thermal engines that have been affected; any kind of nuclear power source in space gets kicked around. That is because the eco-weenies have decided that ionizing radiation is Evil. We ought to start a fad for granite furniture. Some with a goodly fraction of thorium in it. |
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On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:38:23 -0500, Robert Kolker
wrote: Bob Kolker ....Bob, I've been meaning to ask: any relation to the legendary Rich Kolker? OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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