"As you can imagine, this is a fairly existential problem... " Chris Huhne the energy and climate change secretary disclosed tonight.
Adding fuel to the fire it seems that it is connected to the Nucalah powers-that-be and thus it is connected to our very state of being. I only hope that it does not end badly, i.e. we find out that we are in denial about our deaths and aren't really on an island at all, merely an atoll.
This hole affair raises questions about the cost of the black hole and why Britain thought that they needed one, anyway. I mean what was the point? Yes one can use the black hole for intergalactic travel but we are yet to see the benefit of that aside from regular episodes of Dr. Who. Are the incursions by Pancake Monsters worth it?
Worth is dead.
ReplyDeletehell, I can give you a black hole for 1 billion.
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ReplyDeleteThreat is dead.
ReplyDeleteThe greatest threat faced by the good Doktor is that his Big Bimler Brain will be eaten by zombies.
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Hmmm. "Decommissioning Costs", y'say.
ReplyDeleteHadn't considered that. At this point, American business and industry appears to have finished with it's requirement for mikey. There is no longer any need, desire or even willingness to employ mikey. Indeed, the relationship between mikey and American business and industry is well beyond strained and distanced, and has become quite tenuous.
So all that remains is for American business and industry (along with government, for we know well these things tend to call for subsidies) to decommission mikey. To take him permanently out of service and render him harmless and isolated, his more dangerous and controversial bits stored where they can both do no harm and be protected against mis-use.
Certainly the mikey decommissioning process cannot be expected to be cheap, but by moving quickly and keeping the bureaucracy managing the task small and nimble, one would expect that net cost to business and taxpayer over the next ten years could be kept under a million US dollars.
Initial funds for the comprehensive decommissioning study could be allocated out of the General Fund, and the implementation funding could be in the FY 2011 budget appropriation.
Gentlemen, it's time to get this done. You're all finished with mikey, now it's time to do what needs to be done with him...
When the environmentalists were protesting the construction of mikey all those years ago, the mikey industry assured us that decommissioning costs would be rolled into operation expenses. So by the time decommissioning rolled around the project would already be paid for. And now we find out the lying bastards in the mikey industry cut the funding and wrote themselves checks for vacation homes in Barbados.
ReplyDeleteI want in. Screw 77south decommissioning at EOL. I want my vacation home in Barbados.
We can re-finance Him?
ReplyDeleteI want my vacation home in Barbados.
ReplyDeleteI had a vacation in Barbados once. It was pretty awesome. But we're probably going to kill the Caribbean, one way or another.
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Isn't the black hole a positive boon for getting rid of nuclear waste? Or are there complications nobody's talking about?
ReplyDeleteI personally endorse the dropping-pymgies-out-of-aeroplanes approach to dealing with the flesh-eating-rats problem.
ReplyDeleteYou say that now, Herr Smutster, but all it takes is one Pygmy who can fly and you're all done.
ReplyDeleteWhat, have you missed the entire 'Black Swan' view of history?
You people exist too much to discuss existentialismismism.
ReplyDeletelardisme, watchu got skinny boy?
... is there such a thing as a negative boon? (I'm asking for a friend)
ReplyDeleteA negative boon is like G W Bush. He'd be good to have a beer with but he fucked your country over good and proper.
ReplyDeleteHe'd be good to have a beer with
ReplyDeleteOBJECTION.
not only is it presuming facts not EVEN in evidence, but based on all available data, it is more appropriate to assume that GWB would drink several shots, then throw a punch at you, then back his pickup into your Prius and rive off running over someone's dog.
Then go and pick a fight with his dad, "mano a mano"
G Dubbya is an existentialist, keep to the thread please.
ReplyDeleteA positive boon.
ReplyDeleteThen go and pick a fight with his dad, "mano a mano"
ReplyDeleteYou misspelled mango. Twice.
A positively positive boon.
ReplyDeleteYou misspelled mango. Twice.
ReplyDeleteThat joke seems familiar, almost as if it were stolen from some other blog.
OK, maybe, but if so it was stolen from me, and I am fish's friend, so he gets a mulligan on it.
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