CDR: Re: Nuclear waste

[David Honig]

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."