@Tfmonkey The crazy thing is, half a century ago back in the mid-70's the same Engineers that sent men to the moon built the most badass hypersonic missile system to intercept incoming soviet ICBM's. It was called the SPRINT system and it reached Mach 10 in 5 seconds from launch. It was deployed for two years and then cancelled and mothballed. All domain expertise is gone, the blueprints are lost, all the men that built it are dead. America decided welfare for shaniqua was more important.
@Engineer What if those missiles were a bluff and didn't actually work, and were propaganda and that's why the US couldn't replicate their mid-70s technology.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16MMZJlp_0Y
I'd go to the moon, but we don't have that technology anymore - NASA Astronaut Don Pettit
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It is more dangerous not to maintain nuclear power plants because then you still have to guard nuclear waste but now it is stored in a less safe manner
Building nuclear power plants is the safest thing to do with unused nuclear material that must be guarded for environmental reasons and to prevent terrorism
