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“Yes, we’re irradiated now, but gas is under $3/gal.”
Well it would be Dubai and the Saudis that would be irradiated. They should be fine with it right?
fuck them saudis and their sportswashing
That would guarantee a bright future for Dubai
Less than that. They’d have to sell this particular gas at a discount, considering it would be radioactive after making this detour.
The transported good would not be radioactive after the journey, though I can’t say the same for the vessel
Nah, both carbon and hydrogen can absorb neutrons just fine,
The
geiger counterDow will be over 50,000!How bad would the radiation actually be?
Look, I don’t like every view he holds, but he works across the aisle.
We put this man in charge of one of our branches of government. Let that sink in.
I thought this motherfucker was dead.
antiwoke, or asleep as I like to call them
Comatose
just a couple of nuclear detonations!
Tell me your mentally removed without saying the words
Tell me you have no idea about nuclear bombs, not the radiation, not the capabilities, nothing, without saying those words
Tell me you’re the dumbest fuck in class without saying the words
This can’t be a real tweet, right?
It’s gotta be lead… Right? Right?!
It’s satire. Gingrich didn’t even write the OG article…
It’s satire, but newt ate the onion. And when does, he passes it around saying, “Delicious. Want a taste?”
As funny as I find that article to be. The problem is that satire is reality most of the time these days. Even an idea as obviously dumb as this could actually be coming out of the white house.
Oh god they are trying to do Plowshare 2.0.
I’ve stopped asking if people are this stupid, because yes, they are.
But, I think this is more about sowing fear, than a serious suggestion.
I keep trying to persuade myself, in spite of clear evidence to the contrary, that people are not this stupid. But, it doesn’t work.
Oh man… I hate to blow your bubble, but that guy is just repeating something that was under serious consideration about 50 years ago.
He probably just remembers the proposals, and not the problems people found in it.
Neocons doing material analysis.
Eww.
I had to check and this dipshit is still alive.
Can we not have anything nice around here?
The biggest surprise for me is that he is still alive
I was gonna say. This idea has been floating around for decades.
Bottom line: Yes it will work. It will also involve transporting nuclear warheads to another country, which probably violates all kinds of treaties and will set governments everywhere into a panic of epic proportions. The knock-on effects of nuclear contamination will be a problem for the local population, local water table, and local ocean currents. You can bet your bottom-dollar that these, and possibly more, problems will be shouldered solely by the soon-to-be-god-forsaken masses of whatever country eventually okays this idea.
Well, modern nukes aren’t as bad for contamination as the originals, since they only need enough fissile material to kick start the fusion reaction. The biggest issue is they don’t actually save you any time for the extravagant cost they add. You would still have to do manual construction and excavation along the whole length with the added complication of now having to deal with what contamination does still exist.
No need for transport, they’re already in a certain country known for refusing to sign the nonproliferation treaty
So Newt is calling for nuclear bombs to be detonated in Israel?
