I read the article. Did you? You just said that the Forbes article stated the Democratic party was opposed to nuclear power since 1972. Wrong. The actual statement of the article was "since 1972 that the Democratic Party has not said anything positive in its platform about nuclear energy." (The article repeats this twice). Not making nuclear power part of their party platform is not the same as "openly opposing" nuclear power.

The article goes on to state that for instance, in 2005, about 300 environmental groups – including Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and Public Citizen – signed a manifesto which said “we flatly reject the argument that increased investment in nuclear capacity is an acceptable or necessary solution." That's a bit disingenuous. None of these groups are the Democratic Party. So, Brice says the Democratic party was openly opposed to nuclear power, and yet couldn't find even a single statement from the Democratic party opposing it? How open could this opposition have been? Not one statement in 48 years?

Are you perhaps unaware that, as the President, Jimmy Carter was the head of the Democratic Party? On the other hand, the Forbes article quoted zero statements from any Democrats.

Short summary, you're rewriting history to insert modern attitudes into the past.

Right. It's in a 100-km oribit around the moon; listens to deep space when it's on the far side, communicates with space when it's on the near side. Diagram and explanations here : https://www.cosmocube.net/our-...

Just be careful not to set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Maybe they'll find life on Mars and the Lochness Monster while there.

Addendum: it will play and send back recorded radio waves to Earth when on the near side of the moon, so it's a cycle of scoop-n-spew.

It will probably only listen when on the far side and wait out the rest.

Aliens should play some Pink Floyd to mess with us.

Human behavior is unpredictable under such circumstances. The instinct may be to cover it up.

there is a mechanical block requiring you to lift the switches before operating them.

I thought some believe the lift-lock was missing on some planes due to a factory snafu or something. Boeing sent a bulletin out about it, but it was perhaps ignored.

Illegals are the New Jews for bigots like you

Sigh. Learn some history. There are people here who actually were around then.

No, the Democrats were not "openly opposed to nuclear power in any form" in 1972. Jimmy Carter was supportive of nuclear power. The anti-nuclear movement hadn't coalesced yet, and the Greens were mostly busy protesting whaling.

The Three-mile island event (at nearly the same time as the movie "The China Syndrome") changed the attitude toward nuclear power, but that was at the very end of Carter's presidency, and it was Reagan that had to deal with the change. If you want to name the party that killed nuclear power in the US... it was the Republicans. There were zero approved permits for new nuclear plant constructions during the entire 12 year Reagan and Bush (I) administrations. I will blame the after effects of Three-mile island, but it was the Republicans, not the Democrats, who dropped the ball.

As did the Republicans.

Your speculation about motives is utter nonsense.

Even if you accept Forbes as an accurate source, that article only says that support of nuclear power was not in the Democratic Party's published platform after 1972. That's a far cry from saying that they were "openly opposed."

Wait, what? You just finished saying that they were "openly opposed to nuclear power in any form". Now you're saying that they were openly supporting nuclear power. You can't even keep your story stright for two paragraphs.

Locusts, Plague, Orange-Anti-Christ

and the winds are stronger in winter.

Actually no. Wind speeds are typically higher in the spring and autumn and lower during summer AND winter, at least in northern Europe. These are averages of course. Even in winter there are many calm periods with little electricity generation from wind. Wishful thinking doesn't keep the lights on.

If you want to find Taliban-style authoritarian moralism, you don't have the leave the country. Book bans, secret police, explicitly religious political messaging (Can't find the URL of the whitehouse propaganda video, I was thinking of, but you can find your own examples) , surveillance of political speech...

That's The American Way at the moment.

Yip, most the "winning" in the USA trickles up, while N. Europe has better safety nets & health, better college funding, and more vacation.

Both Denmark and France are socialist-leaning countries. I didn't think the gov't would get away with increasing the retirement age.

Right-wing parties have been winning in EU of late, often fueled by anti-Muslim boogymanning, perhaps borrowing rhetoric from our Tinted One by exaggerating and highlighting crime or terrorist events*. I wonder when the anti-Muslim fervor eventually dies down if the leftist parties will adjust the retirement age back down.

* EU desperately need immigrants to keep their population from declining too quickly. They should help Muslims assimilate instead of demonizing them by cherry-picking events.

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