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10. Yeah, littering the entire planet with semiconductors is a good idea because there are people who are...
Mon May 4, 2026, 07:39 PM
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Last edited Mon May 4, 2026, 08:26 PM - Edit history (1)

...ignorant of and paranoid about radioactive materials, about which they know zero.

You do know that the planet and people are radioactive and without radioactivity they would die? Potassium is radioactive.

You don't know?

Well tell everyone you're an environmentalist, and think millions of tons of glass layered with semiconductors.

I worked with radioactivity for three years in my 20's; fifty years later I'm still alive.

My son worked with radioactive vanadium which he helped synthesize. But then he's not a moron; he's a scientist.

And when I worked with radioactive materials for three years, I'm not a moron, I'm a scientist.

Nuclear energy saves lives. It follows that antinuke ignorance kills people.

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