CDR: Re: Nuclear waste

At 08:14 AM 10/23/00 -0400, Ken Brown wrote:

(3) The small amount of stuff that really *is* dangerous is dangerous enough that it would be too risky putting it in a rocket. What is the success rate of unmanned launches? About 19/20?

Those fsckers in NASA have lobbed a few kilos of very hot (literally) isotopes as thermoelectric power sources; they even played gravity-ball with one of them (Cassini IIRC) using Earth as the reflector. Wasn't that special of them? "We're from the government, and, well, you can't stop us, so bugger off."