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I've never seen a black swan.


Point well taken. Of course you're free to determine your personal level of risk tolerance. Just don't force others to convert their homes to nuclear shelters (after all, one nuclear explosion can ruin your whole compile).


100% agree, and all these "pay back" arguments forget the payback time of coal or nuclear systems.


"You could fit in an RTG with the same or higher power output as the solar panels for the same mass."

As an expert you should go work for ESA. I'm sure they need you. Oops, armchair space engineer, I forgot. If you need to look in Wikipedia, you have no clue about the subject matter.


Usually this is structured in a way that it's 100% legally safe like in: "I was not part of the decision (but people who highly depend on me were)"


I'm with you, but don't do this. Musk is regarded a god here. Only criticize Musk with throwaway accounts.


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