ERRORS in rebuttal to "Pandora's Promise"

[PamW]

68. 100% WRONG!! AGAIN!!

kristopher states
Your admission that the dual use nature of the technology makes it a proliferation risk is crystal clear.

100% WRONG AGAIN

I DO NOT ADMIT the dual nature. That's just your CARELESS INCOMPLETE reading.

Although the IFR presents VERY SIGNIFICANT intrinsic barriers to proliferation; I am merely pointing out that there is no need to test those barriers.

We could just not allow the technology into the hands of proliferant nations.

Let me give an analogy.

I claim that commercial airliners are EXTREMELY safe. There's less than a 1 in a MILLION chance of being injured on a flight.

However, for those of you who don't want to deal with even the 1;MILLION chance; you can always stay home and not fly at all.

Kristopher self-servingly reads that as an ADMISSION that air travel is dangerous because I'm telling people not to fly.

NOT AT ALL

Air travel is EXTREMELY SAFE; but for those than can't handle very small fractions, their mathematical acumen stops after the second place after the decimal point; then one can make the probability a hard ZERO by not flying at all.

Because kristopher LACKS the training in the sciences; he can NOT APPRECIATE that the IFR offers an INSURMOUNTABLE obstacle to the proliferant weapons designer.

Kristopher doesn't even understand something as basic as the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics; and he "thinks" that he knows how to best spend our limited dollars.

The scientists disagree with kristopher; including climate researcher Hansen and the others who stated that renewables WON'T SCALE and they recommend nuclear power

Kristopher is being dismissive when he says it's only "a few nuclear zealots"; when it is really the entire scientific community.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/03/world/nuclear-energy-climate-change-scientists-letter/index.html

Renewables like wind and solar and biomass will certainly play roles in a future energy economy, but those energy sources cannot scale up fast enough to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale the global economy requires.

Science has spoken.

The good thing about science is that it is true, whether or not you believe in it.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson

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