'You can walk my path
You can wear my shoes
Let her talk like me
And be an angel too
But maybe You ain't never gonna feel this way
You ain't never gonna know me
But I know you...
Teach you now that
Things can only get better
Can only get, can only get
They get on from here
You know, I know that
SO! One post down and I havnt been snaffled by a wave of angry physicists just yet...
come on guys?! I expected a far swifter onslaught of 'HARD COLD FACTS' from people with 'DECADES OF EXPERIENCE IN THE NUCLEAR SECTOR' (I.e 19 year old undergraduates who enjoy copy-pasting yesterday's AWESOME lecture over the internet and don't watch 'The Simpsons' because IT'S TOO CHUFFIN BIASED).
I realise there are some nice people involved in nuclear science though, like cuddly Brian Cox, who spent an hour last week on BBC2 wandering around various restricted nuclear sites looking- one part HUNK, forty parts exuberant child in an atomic ball pool.
Seriously- why do TV scientists think that the more they behave like children on a sugar rush the more that we, the lowly public, will buy their bullshit?
To be fair, Coxy did explain the science of fusion pretty well, and spent his first 15 minutes basically having an aural wank over 'our glorious sun' which did make one feel rather fuzzy with awe.
Only to say that... no... we shouldnt be harnessing this incredible power... we should be creating it!
I was so pissed off at the whole thing that I wrote a ridiculously long letter to the Guardian which they didnt print... the fuckers. Can anyone smell a CONSPIRACY? Jokes... The Guardian are about the only mainstream paper not firmly fellating the cold green rod of the nuclear power lobby...
here it is anyway, its a bit less reliant on crass sex references and CAPITAL LETTERS than my usual output. I've inserted some actions for you to follow at home.
'Monday night’s Horizon programme, with its ‘Top Gear’ style camera shots and boy-band physicist, Brian Cox, was a depressingly biased plea for a ‘Manhattan Project’ style drive for fusion power. APPLAUSE. This follows Horizon’s investigation into Rusi Taleyarkhan’s BOO claims that collapsing bubbles could be harnessed for power, an hour long celebration of fusion, similar to Cox’s, which then spent the last five minutes of broadcast proving the results as a scam (last year Taleyarkhan was charged with two counts of misconduct). If the BBC wishes to put fantasy on at primetime, I suggest they stick to DR Who. RAUCUS LAUGHTER Neither program gave any voice to the sizeable number of scientists who believe fusion will take more than 30 years, offering no solution to imminent climate chaos, let alone those who say it will never work. Nor did they compare the billions of pounds spent on this scientific wet dream compared to proven renewable technologies. MURMURS OF AGREEMENT The USA alone has spent around $20 Billion on Fusion, as it did on the bomb, and where has that got it in the past 50 years? I would like to make it clear that while we might not be bending the ears’ of the BBC science team, there are a growing number of young people who are determined to not let false promises of ‘free, limitless energy’ take precedence as they have done in the past. And that while HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant seemingly attempt their own callous ‘fusion’ in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, we are very aware of the serious dangers posed by Nuclear technology. Cox’s past life as a keyboard player with D:Ream, whose biggest hit ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ became a New Labour anthem, seems to have tarnished him with an overt optimism in science’s biggest ‘If’. There are plenty of young people in Britain who realise that we need to choose scientific solutions due to their applicable effect, not their exciting nature or potential for esteem. Cox’s song and its ethos are a symbol of the past. We have to adapt, and propaganda like this program only serve to blind us from the reality. There is no ‘get out of jail free card’ Brian, and science like this is what incarcerated us in the first place. We won’t let it happen again.
So yeh, you can sit back down now... and enjoy some videos.
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