Yesterday, we happened to watch a movie on nuclear fusion in Chemistry. Ok, that’s fine and all, but you see this movie must have been about 30 years old, and expressed some interesting viewpoints. First off, it called the journalists that worked on the 3 Mile Island story irresponsible and wrong for spreading fear over nuclear power. Let’s see, journalists are wrong for alerting the public to an incident that could quite possibly have been disastrous? Oh, yeah, seems right to me (and I’m sure it sounded right in line to be accepted into the public school system). Another one - “we will not let the Soviets infest the West with Communism”. “And that’s why it’s so important for us to stay ahead of the Soviets in the technology race”. Furthermore, it said that the risk of any nuclear incident with a nuclear power plant was almost impossible. It spoke of building a fusion reactor in the future which would provide a controlled release of energy. “The chance of a meltdown is virtually impossible, and any incident would be completely controlled by the reactor walls”.

Let me paraphrase: “There’s no need to worry about nuclear power. Despite the close calls we just described, as long as everything works the way the want it to, no danger will come to you. The immature journalists that are trying to present the side of the story we don’t tell you are being disrespectful to our American Empire. Besides, if we don’t produce it, the Soviets will, and we can’t let them win.”

Words for next week-
Titration, Tie-Dye, Renaissance, Imperfect, Oh oh oh, Explication, Exam Review, Miyazaki Hype, “Culminating Activity”.

“culminating activity”

i loooooooove mrs. burke!!!

gosh darn it Michael post a new entry already, i’m bored stiff

~Infamous Lunch-Nabber

yeah, because it’s been a whole two days since I posted last, on no!

Exactly. I’m bored stiff.

well we cant expect helen/sarah-style posting from EVERYONE. michael’s writing is better than mine, therefore we must wait marginally longer to be able to enjoy it.