Un-mined Uranium ore is still pretty toxic...but it's underground...This Uranium (not to mention all the other nasty shiz in coal ash) is put into the air and water table. I would consider that nuclear waste, yes. Considering the insane levels of regulation for even the tiniest levels of radiation surrounding nuclear plants, the fact that coal-ash gets a free pass to just store whatever in unlined pools next to lakes and rivers is pretty ludicrous.

We shouldn't...just our drones :-p

With hastily spray-painted Ukrainian flags!

Untrue:

http://www.scientificamerican....

I'd like to see a camera in every public school classroom as well.

It would end the 'he said/she said' arguments when a kid is being disruptive and the parent refuses to believe their snowflake is anything other than perfect.

It could also allow for a better means of evaluating a teacher's performance. Currently it is done with in person audits by an administrator...teachers behave quite differently under that situation.

That's why I say we need to work as hard as we can to get all humans out of governmental functions as soon as possible!

Algorithmic government! Open source....GIT repo ;-P

I thought of that scene too. I like out the wheel popped out from the dash. If it was unobtrusive for most of the time, I think it'd work out.

f that noise. My self-driving car should treat me or whoever else inside as the 100% top safety priority. Sux for those kids, but maybe their bus driver shouldn't have fallen asleep at the wheel!

Looks similar, but definitely no sensory isolation. The richest interconnects possible should be achieved. Our brains kinda go nuts without sensory input.

Exactly. I was just talking about this scenario the other day. While portable brain cases may be a bit far fetched and hard to imagine, I don't see immobile support systems for brains totally unfeasible. Of course waaay more science is needed, but we do seem to be advancing at an exponential rate.

Once it does become possible there are a bunch of strange milestones. Like, who were the first sucessful clinical trials? Would they become 'the elders' eventually? What about when there are more brains in buildings than people alive? Can brains own property? Would they have human agents in the 'real world' to do their bidding? What would it mean for prison sentences? How good would they be at first person shooters? ;-)

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Yep..my bad...hard to tell from the trolls sometimes here.

Psh, the radiation levels coming out of a nuke plant are 1/1000th of that coming from even coal ash ponds. Don't forget how freakin' easy it is to detect radiation.

This should be obvious if you don't use The Simpsons as a source.

Um...you can ride a horse drunk?

Not quite. Equating an accident zone to the entire technology, hundreds of cores worldwide, is specious. Also, that link to the 'fish kills' is also not specific to nuclear power, nor actually describing a fish kill. A few fish getting caught in an intake is not a fish kill. For that you need them all to die at once.

Also, the warm water from the outlets could easily be argued to be a boon to fish and aquatic life. No winter!

But I do not have any illusions in trying to sway your disproportional fear of fission.

I dunno, some of the best fishing in the state of NC is by the nuke plant down at the southern end of Lake Norman right by the nuke plant. The warm water discharge creates a permanent summer so the fish grow huge!