Human Extinction

[iBBB]

36 minutes ago, thefuzz said:

I can't recall, but I think that US based power plants have systems in place to keep that to a minimum, but I can't recall.  I read up on it when I read that book I mention above.

I think the power back-up is too keep the reactors cooled but still on, so that the operation could be easily resumed. They could "turn-off" the reactors if they wanted to, but it would take a lot longer to bring them back. 

 

I could be totally wrong, i'm not an expert on nuclear surgery. 

[TheRumGone]

On 8/16/2017 at 1:29 AM, MurkN said:

Here's a clip from Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson on Joe Rogan's podcast about this. Very interesting.

Love Rogan's podcast. Don't agree with everything he says but his wide range of guests always brings me back. He's generally a smart man. 

[Moorgan]

qntm.org/destroy is one of my favorite websites on this topic. He doesn't talk about such silly notions as people dying or even eradicating all life on the planet. Nope. He only wants to talk about what it would take to literally destroy the planet Earth. It's a great read and he's very entertaining about it. The rest of the site is a ton of fun as well. Haven't been to the site in a long time but I assume it's still there. I'd check but my work firewall has trouble with it for some reason.

[Moorgan]

Works on my phone:

https://qntm.org/destroy

Preamble

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.

You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world.

Fools.

The Earth is built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. So my first piece of advice to you, dear would-be Earth-destroyer, is: do NOT think this will be easy.

This is not a guide for wusses whose aim is merely to wipe out humanity. I can in no way guarantee the complete extinction of the human race via any of these methods, real or imaginary. Humanity is wily and resourceful, and many of the methods outlined below will take many years to even become available, let alone implement, by which time mankind may well have spread to other planets; indeed, other star systems. If total human genocide is your ultimate goal, you are reading the wrong document. There are far more efficient ways of doing this, many which are available and feasible RIGHT NOW. Nor is this a guide for those wanting to annihilate everything from single-celled life upwards, render Earth uninhabitable or simply conquer it. These are trivial goals in comparison.

This is a guide for those who do not want the Earth to be there anymore.

[Paa Langfart]

On ‎8‎/‎17‎/‎2017 at 10:01 AM, iBBB said:

I think the power back-up is too keep the reactors cooled but still on, so that the operation could be easily resumed. They could "turn-off" the reactors if they wanted to, but it would take a lot longer to bring them back. 

 

I could be totally wrong, i'm not an expert on nuclear surgery. 

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NRC regulatory requirements for emergency power supplies is that they be available on the order of a month. Heat is still being generated, even after successfully shutting down a reactor. If you had to stop, at any point, carrying away that heat (via water, pumps, and electricity), it would start building up again. Emergency cooling systems have to be available for weeks.

 
Assuming the core itself and/or the reactor containment and physical integrity of the nuclear power plant has not been compromised (example: Fukushima damage via massive earthquake,) then it’s fair to say that after a grid-down situation, apparently an operational plant could stay cool and survive without melting down for several weeks, perhaps a month without resupply. If we are to ever face a major cataclysmic grid-down (EMP, Solar-flare Carrington Event, etc.) then the odds greatly increase that most all distribution supply chains will grind to a halt very quickly, which could in turn create a major problem for refueling diesel generators to keep cooling pumps running. So… after 2 to 4-weeks, you’d best be far away from any nuke plant…

Some information sourced from scientificamerican.com

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/nuclear/nuclear-power-plants-when-the-backups-fail/

 

And do not forget those cooling ponds for spent nuclear fuel rods - the whole thing is a big frigging house of cards ready to come crashing down.  Fukishima showed us what can happen.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/whats-the-deal-spent-nuclear-fuel

[arbnranger]

On 8/16/2017 at 11:16 AM, thefuzz said:

throw in as many guns as we all have, and we would break down into small factions warring with each other relentlessly over wild game and clean water.

 

 

 

[jasonluckydog]

humans are a nasty species

[TheRumGone]