Me and my dad worship Saganism (the worship of carl sagan)

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The New Designs already exist but the politicians will not permit them to be built.

In a society without shortages of what earthly use are politicians? The only thing they are good for is parceling out misery and scarcity.

ruveyn

When global warming gets really bad, desperate politicians will permit explosions of hydrogen bombs to generate electricity but by then it will be too late to save the planet.

Indeed. Why don't we just build a lot of thorium cycle reactors? To heck with uranium.

My very thought.

ruveyn

Greenpeace is against thorium.

rebuild the grid and save 10-15% of your energy loss.

Vested interests by industry in this branch of peaceful nuclear technology may have something to do with it

First post of Ruveyn's where I've LOL'd.

You mean the fact that nuclear energy in the USA was conceived of as a way of providing fissile material for the arms race?

This is how scientology got started.

IIrc LRon was still alive when Scientology got started, and deliberately set it up as a profit source.

I would post link but WP wont let me yet.
There is a FB page called First Church of Carl Sagan

Hate? Why?
There is something about Sagan that he seems a much better candidate for 'worship'. Both illuminate the majesty of science, however Sagan leaves it to you to see where god does or doesnt fit into that picture, whereas Dawkins militantly and resolutely deconstructs and ridicules religious paradigms.
I agree with him on most points, its just that I dont think he realizes that that approach is purely preaching to the choir. No faithful follower who knows who Dawkins is would ever sit down, read one of his books, and be of changed mind.
I say 'who knows' because if you could get them to unknowingly explore certain of his works, it could be a different story as it was for me. To make a long story short I checked from the libray River Out of Eden (by Richard Dawkins, whose name i had never heard, i just new i was interested in biology) and it changed my life in a way would not have expected.

I recommend Dawkins works which are more focused on the exploration of evolutionary biology, rather than attacking the unnacceptors of those ideas. (History-Deniers as Dawkins would put it). Not that I dont think it is sad that these people will never give science a chance, i just know what a lost cause it is to try to point this out to most of them, because i was one.

The Hawkingites will wear little wheel chairs around their necks. And they will speak in a strange voice.

ruveyn

Stephen Hawking, another dark nuclear lord.

I think he would have had Nuclear Pulse Propulsion in mind. You would have to come up with something so radical to cover such vast distances for interstellar space travel efficiently and in a reasonable time frame. With current rocket propulsion technology our spacecrafts would be like slugs by comparison. I think in the current trend towards nuclear disarmament globally there is little future for such projects - for the time being that is. But who's to say that such projects could not be taken off the back burner and have them up back on track.