X-Message-Number: 19192 From: Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 14:40:51 EDT Subject: Re: Why no fundamental advances in physics? --part1_4a.c53542c.2a2bc0b3_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit P. Rhoades said: > I am a self-employed capitalist who > supports the trade unions and I am quite sympathetic to techno methods > of human physical and mental improvement but I think we should destroy > nuclear weapons and power stations and maybe only do a little research > on nuclear fusion. > In the long run, nuclear energy on Earth is a bad thing (as I see it). I would argue that the natural place of nuclear energy is space or the Moon, a world without fluid where thing remain in place for millions of years. That could be the answer to the question: Why go back to the Moon? Because it is the nearest dry world! So I am pro space-nuclear and anti Earth-nuclear. I think spallation reactor would be the solution: No need to launch any radio-active product from Earth, accelerated protons would break stable nuclei and produce neutrons without chain reaction. Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_4a.c53542c.2a2bc0b3_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19192