11-02-2011, 02:27 AM
Put boots on Uranus. Well, that wouldn't require manned flight, just a payload of boots 
You're right. We should have taken the opportunity to put a thermo-nuclear weapons platform up there while we were at it Maybe tuck a few silos into those craters. They would be a b!tch to service though...
Nobody seems to want a better energy supply. I live in ND, we pump oil and mine coal. We burn *lots* of coal near Bismarck/Washburn and along the Missouri River in West Central ND. It's "clean coal," um... yeah... umm. You can see the haze for miles and miles. Only thing worse was some god-awful, had to have been coal-fired, operation in the Souris River basin in Minot, that from a single small smoke stack cast a pall over the area.
We do have lots of windmills out here, but nowhere near the required generating capacity. Also have Garrison Dam hydroplant.
IMO, we would be much better off abandoning "clean coal" and going to nuclear
You're right. We should have taken the opportunity to put a thermo-nuclear weapons platform up there while we were at it
Maybe tuck a few silos into those craters. They would be a b!tch to service though...Nobody seems to want a better energy supply. I live in ND, we pump oil and mine coal. We burn *lots* of coal near Bismarck/Washburn and along the Missouri River in West Central ND. It's "clean coal," um... yeah... umm. You can see the haze for miles and miles. Only thing worse was some god-awful, had to have been coal-fired, operation in the Souris River basin in Minot, that from a single small smoke stack cast a pall over the area.
We do have lots of windmills out here, but nowhere near the required generating capacity. Also have Garrison Dam hydroplant.
IMO, we would be much better off abandoning "clean coal" and going to nuclear