Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/25

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Subject: [Leica] Chernobyl Legacy
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Apr 25 19:43:13 2006
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Marc:

For all their inept engineering ability the Russians did manage to beat 
us into space. They  were lucky to steal more Nazi scientists than we did.

Walt



Marc James Small wrote:

>At 08:27 PM 4/25/06 -0400, Walt Johnson wrote:
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>>I can't help but feel our system of CYA is far superior and 
>>Three Mile Island comes to mind.  Lack luster Russian engineering aside, 
>>the  reactions of our own  (edited out in my original post) Christian 
>>Right salivating over a "commie disaster" is hard to deny.  Holier than 
>>thou always strikes me as the unholiest of all.
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>Walt
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>I concur that TMI shows that a properly designed nuclear reactor cannot
>cause a serious problem to the environment.
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>I am not certain why you insist on conflating Christian and Right-Wing --
>many Christians are rather Left-Wing politically, and many Right-Wingers
>are agnostic, if that matters a bit.  And I do not recall any of the sort
>of polemics of the sort you describe when the Chernobyl disaster occurred -
>and at that time, I was rather active in what you would probably describe
>as "Right-Wing" politics.  I do recall a lot of comments from engineers
>about the various warnings the West had sent the USSR over the decade or
>more prior to the disaster about the dangers they were running. though.
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>Marc
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>msmall@aya.yale.edu 
>Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
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