Uk full steam ahead for Nuclear power

[Fred Bloggs]

WHS, and most nuclear inspectors in the UK are on the verge of retirement as it is (*)

(*) mentioned in an article in today's Times, although that is behind Rupert Murdoch's absurd pay wall

True, actually, the nuclear inspectorate are now paying very good salaries to attract new inspectors into the industry.

[EngDesigner]

When the Wind Blows: Amazon.co.uk: Raymond Briggs: Books

The cartoon version of "When the wind blows" is on youtube.

Part 1 here:

YouTube - ‪When the Wind Blows (1986) - Part 1‬‏

[shaunbhoy]

IBut we're going to have buildings 1 mile high in our lifetimes.

Not a chance.

[d000hg]

Not a chance.

One is already in the planning phase. It might not reach the intended original 1-mile mark but will be pretty close barring a total failure.

[shaunbhoy]

One is already in the planning phase. It might not reach the intended original 1-mile mark but will be pretty close barring a total failure.

Time travel is already in the planning phase too. Won't happen in our lifetime unless you are planning to live to be 5000+

[d000hg]

Nobody is seriously working on planning time travel. Planning as in architects have drafted a design already, and the project is out for tender. Seems like a real prospect... obviously it might fail but what are you basing your total derision on? Engineering or cost or 'common sense'?

Modern materials science is looking to do some pretty drastic things - bridges and buildings etc.

[shaunbhoy]

Nobody is seriously working on planning time travel. Planning as in architects have drafted a design already, and the project is out for tender. Seems like a real prospect... obviously it might fail but what are you basing your total derision on? Engineering or cost or 'common sense'?

Modern materials science is looking to do some pretty drastic things - bridges and buildings etc.

There is no point to it, it would be a monumentally expensive white elephant, and we have no need for such an extravagance. Architects can produce you "designs" for just about anything, however impractical, and they should be treated with the greatest contempt for the most part. They need to devote their time to designing more practical buildings that can actually house more people instead of wasting their, and everyone else's, time and energy on fanciful follys like your 1-mile wobbly tower block.

[d000hg]

There is no point to it, it would be a monumentally expensive white elephant, and we have no need for such an extravagance.

But... we've been trying to build bigger and bigger buildings for decades. How are your arguments valid about a 1-mile building but not a 1/2-mile building which cost $billions and is equally unwarranted?



If people only did things for practical reasons, and never "because we can" the world would be a much less interesting place. The moon landing for instance. Sensible or not, people with money insist on wanting to show it off.

[shaunbhoy]

But... we've been trying to build bigger and bigger buildings for decades. How are your arguments valid about a 1-mile building but not a 1/2-mile building which cost $billions and is equally unwarranted?

My arguments against a 1/2 mile building are equally valid. Even though it has been built, it is still an indulgent monstrosity when there are billions of people around the planet living in squalor. If they want to impress me, they should do something to address that glaring imbalance first.

If people only did things for practical reasons, and never "because we can" the world would be a much less interesting place. The moon landing for instance. Sensible or not, people with money insist on wanting to show it off.

And people with no money insist upon flying planes into their expensive fantasies.
I would rather see the "because we can" mantra used to feed the starving rather than to make an air-conditioned phallus built to house camel-jockeys with too much money.
If they want to fritter it away on pointless ventures they should stick to patronising hopeless causes like Manchester City.

[TimberWolf]

Those spires on the top are cheating. Height records should be based on the top of the highest room big enough to swing a cat, and not a cat sized room sitting lonesome at the top of a cheating mast either.