Is trysts, trysts?

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I think we've almost come full circle -- all we need to do is go from linguistics to Noam Chomsky, Chomsky to extreme liberal (even anarchist) political views, and we're only one hop away from being right back on topic and talking about trysts.

The reason for Snoring.

I think you mean "Zzzzzzzzz".

So true.

The sad thing is, many of the nuclear plants we have are in horrible shape. If we could make sure everybody gave a damn that they might create 100 square miles of irradiated wasteland, nuclear would be the way to go. But forcing people to follow "regulations" is socialist and Swedish, so we can't do it.

(There, we've gotten to what passes for liberal...)

And you may not be as pretty as your Avatar.

The sad thing is that if the more pessimisitc projections about global warming are accurate, nuclear may be the only thing that can transition us from fossil fuels soon enough to have any impact. Or so I've heard. From smart people.

And if Global warming is going on without Human involvement how would nuclear power save us from what has happened over and over throughout earths long history?

where is the discussion of chess ?

I'm pretty sure that coal plants are not a geologically cyclical phenomenon.

Well the waste that is produced by nuclear plants can be recycled to be reprocessed.  After that it can be used as fuel once again.  It is quite expensive to do this, but in the long run it is a lot cleaner.  The problem is that the old nuclear regulations state that the nuclear waste must be stored on site, and it cannot be refined to be used again as fuel, the same as with the Fukishima plant in Japan.  Some places were mentioned as other storage sites, but nobody wants that waste anywhere near them.

So nobody wants to take it, and you cannot reuse it.  So now it sits in these reactors giving off a more and more decay heat the longer it sits.  This was the problem with the Fukishima Plant.  Lets compare with Three Mile Island.

Three Mile Island was running for only a few months before the accident, so there was not a lot of decay heat because not much waste had been produced.  So when the power failed for several hours, it did not generate as much heat and could be cooled down quickly avoiding too much damage.  About 3% of the core melted down.

Fukishima was running for many years before the accident, so there was a huge amount of decay heat being generated from the amount of waste accumulated over the years.  The power was offline for several days.  Based on this, the nuclear engineers I have listened to estimate massive damage to the reactors.  It is estimated that at least 80% of at least one reactor has melted down.  And that was from the numbers almost a month ago.

TEPCO has come out with a report a few days ago that reactor 1 has melted through the containment and is sitting on the floor right now.  The radiation measurements were somewhere around 70 R per hour.

I use to like Chomsky. And I still appreciate him reading human rights reports out loud, in his lectures. Philosophically, I'd rather read Foucault. But, I don't think I could have ever been Sharon Foucault (for obvious reasons).

Linguistics is a fine pursuit. It's unfortunate that things aren't always rewarded in proportion to their beauty.

And the phenomenons that caused the previous Global warmings were attributed to exactly what? We as humans don't  have a clue as how to tame the planet. It does what it does without consultation.

It's called science, dude.

What does that mean?

I'm sure you are one up on her.

Wait, wait, wait! Hold the f*ck on! You understood what EP said???

Foucault was a very interesting French philosopher. He died in the 80s from complications arising from AIDS. He had a famous televised debate with Chomsky, in the 60s I believe. He wrote a history of sexuality, and a history of insanity, among many other works.

And what has science told us about the previous Global warmings Dude. Explain it to me oh learned Dude.