Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
by fulafel on Friday June 13, 2014 @02:04AM
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A strong case can be made that the risk of nuclear war that we incurred is worse than a conventional ww3. Say we had a 1/2 risk of nuclear war and a probable cost of conventional war would be 1/10 of a nuclear ww3.
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Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
by CamperBob2 on Friday June 13, 2014 @03:43AM
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Also, it's possible that the various proxy wars that have been fought since WWII have killed more people than a hypothetical knock-down, drag-out WWIII would have. But the point stands, you can argue both ways.
Re:Anti-Tesla sentiment and the death of optimism
by Dylan16807 on Friday June 13, 2014 @08:09AM
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>it's possible that the various proxy wars that have been fought since WWII have killed more people than a hypothetical knock-down, drag-out WWIII would have
Mmm, no, I'm pretty sure that's not possible. It would be possible to have some kind of super-low-casualty 'world war' with fewer deaths than those, but not a knock-down, drag out world war.