Recent content by pcr01

Statistics are only as good as the person who records them.

"Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility. The book...

I'm just arguing the merits of technology.

Thank you, pleasure to be here. Yes, but even though technology has granted a longer life for billions of people, at the same time, they often live a life that is not even worth living due to extreme poverty. Also, technology has contributed to improving the infant mortality rate which...

I know the question was not addressed to me, but with all due respect, a person dying in a car crash does not effect me, nor can it effect generations of people into the future. In other words, when a plane or car crash occurs, no particular situation is permanent other then the loss of the...

A good example to see the problem of burying radioactive waste is to research the huge problem with the 50 million + gallons of radioactive waste that is buried underground in Hanford Washington leftover from project manhattan. Millions of gallons of it has already leaked out and is headed...