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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by BurningFrog on Sunday June 05, 2022 @12:05AM (#31627913)
To oversimplify, I think the default posture in western society has become "let's not do anything, in case it goes wrong".

People who think like that are seen as serious people who don't foolishly ignore all possible negative consequences.

I, as the reader might guess by now, don't have high hopes for societies that function this way.

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Re:Japan tested a giant turbine that generates electricity u... by salawat on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:38PM (#31633659)
Nooo... The default is "do your due diligence".

As it turns out, there's a LOT more we can do now (that is actually hard work to boot) than we've necessarily been able to do before.

If you actually take the phrase "reasonably forseeable" seriously, I assure you, chasing down those nasty little details and feeding them through the math takes a hot minute.

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