The Countries Elemination Game: Nuclear Edition

[SciFiBoy]

Retrasado said:

SciFiBoy said:

Retrasado said:

SciFiBoy said:

Retrasado said:

actually, you're wrong. WWII started in september 1939 and we joined in late 1941. Then we all fought until May, 1945. You're thinking of WWI when the war started in august 1914 and we joined in april 1917 and fought until nov 1918.

as for what we've done for the world... we invented the steamboat, the telegraph, the electric lightbulb, the movie camera, the phonograph, the airplane, nuclear weapons, the integrated circuit, the CCD, and the internet. Our military power also kept the Soviet Union out of Western Europe for more than four decades. That last fact alone should be enough to convince anyone that the US has done some good for the world.

 

yeah, cause that was such a great invention, how many civilians died in hiroshima and nagasaki?

well, they are the reason western Europe was never taken over by the commies. Also, they led to nuclear power plants, nuclear powered ships, radiation therapy, and the engines for the Voyager spacecraft and almost all other spacecraft that go farther away from the sun than mars run on the radiation from a few kilos of Pu-244, which can only be produced in macroscopic amounts in a nuclear reactor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster - just one reason why nuclear power is a bad idea...

 

that only happens if you build the plant with no containment building. Also, the reactor only blew up when they shut off all the backup cooling systems and overrode a few dozen safety rules. Also, nuke plants generate 16% of the world's power today. that's a lot of coal plants..

 

i prefer renewable energy that dosent come with the risk of waste and meltdowns thanks