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• astrodust 9y ago
  There's a huge difference between cleaning up the surrounding landscape and dealing with the broken reactors themselves. Eventually we'll figure out how to fix those. Nothing an X-Prize contest or two can't help address if things get truly desperate. I'd take a contaminated room any day over a whole planet slowly cooking itself to death.
  • coldtea 9y ago
    >Nothing an X-Prize contest or two can't help address if things get truly desperate. Yeah, because technology advances magically if you will it enough...
    • astrodust 9y ago
      We have a number of commercial space-flight companies now and a dozen self-driving car platforms that work quite well. Neither of these really existed before their respective X-Prize type challenges.