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Well you do have maintian the subs and their systems. Plus you have to keep a well trained crew. There's no telling when hostilities could flare up. It's always good to stay prepared and battle-ready.
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quote:It had to do with a lack of safety precautions and operator incompetance.
Because of budget cutbacks, like I said. If they put more money into maintaining their technology, they would, as an effect, hire more competent personell and implement better safety measures.
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Tolstoy, on a more objective note.
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They could put money towards it if they HAD ANY MONEY to put towards it.
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No, it didn't. The Soviets didn't put a safety vessel around their reactors not because they couldn't afford it, but because they didn't think they needed it.
The actual immediate cause of Chernobyl was an idiot sticking in all the rods into the reactor to see what would happen, ignoring a big fat sign above his head telling him to never do this.
Thankfully, Darwinism took its course and he was dead within a few hours of the accident.
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Along with a few thousand others. Thus nature teaches us another lesson: not only does it discriminate against stupidity, it discriminates against PROXIMITY to stupidity.
Now tell me: if the estimates that their air could last 'til Friday were based on a full compliment estimate, but now they think that most of the crew was killed immediately, then why would they think that the remaints of the crew would have run out of air already? If only a dozen people survived, then they'd have air for a month.
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------------------ "...I was just up in Canada, Toronto actually. You know, they really hate you guys [Americans] up there? The funny thing is, they think you hate them back, when in fact, you just couldn't be bothered to care. Now in Ireland, it's a different story. At least we had the common decency to wait until the English invaded before we started hating them. I guess the Canadians are hating you in advance..." -Irish Comic Ed Byrne on Canada-US relations
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My point clearly was that since we are not at war, and have supposedly had at least 10 years peace, there doesn't need to be nuclear submarines by ANY country in the waters capable of destroying half a continent. Training exercises for what? WWIII? The point is that the russian were to stuck up to let the us come in and help because they didn't want us looking at their sub. And now their dead. The point is that the whole matter is disgusting. People dying for no reason is disgusting. Hopefully people here realize that, right?
quote:not because they couldn't afford it, but because they didn't think they needed it.
That is only a rationalization because they couldn't afford it. I agree, it wasn't a priorty, thus the main cash flow wasn't going towards it, but if they did have more cash to allocate, maintance and safety standards would naturally go up.
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Operator of the Goulag Hotel, maintainer of the workhouses.
"Woman is deprived of rights from lack of education, and the lack of education results from the absence of rights. We must not forget that the subjection of women is so complete, and dates from such distant ages, that we are often unwilling to recognize the gulf that separates them from us."
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