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    So we abandoned all air flight after the Hindenburg… right?


    So we abandoned all air flight after the Hindenburg… right?

    by Comfortable_Tutor_43

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    2. WastelandOutlaw007 on

      Not a very god example, as it did prove we should stop using hydrogen as the filler.

      So you could say it showed we shouldn’t use uranium

      That said, Im still pro nuclear power over oil/coal.

    4. Lopsided_Shift_4464 on

      Considering we pretty much stopped using airships, this is a bad example. A better analogy would be “Should we stop using boats because of the titanic?”

    7. Imicus on

      Hindenburg did prove a few things;

      Fixed-wing > passenger airship travel

      Helium > Hydrogen ~~as a fuel source~~ for buoyancy.

      So in a way, Hindenburg *did* prove we should not do air travel (by highly flammable blimps/zeppelins anyway)

    8. Starchaser53 on

      Chernobyl was mismanaged to hell and back. It’s not the nuclear energies fault for doing it’s job

    9. Material-Box-7873 on

      Technology evolves by fixing failures rather than quitting, especially when the potential benefits are massive

    10. Illum503 on

      We did stop that method of air travel so this terrible analogy is more like saying we should abandon all power generation after Chernobyl

    13. Sylassian on

      While I agree with the sentiment, the example you’re using is pretty bad considering the Hindenburg convinced us to completely change (among other things) the type of *fuel* we use to do the thing we wanted to keep on doing.

    14. NoWingedHussarsToday on

      Imagine you want a pizza. You call delivery and place an order. They tell you it will be 30 dollars and will be there in 30 minutes. It arrives after two hours and it’s 50 dollars. That’s how construction of nuclear power plants is done now.

    16. BusyBeeBridgette on

      Chernobyl is proof you shouldn’t use cheap materials when making an RMBK reactor is all.

    17. EnergyHumble3613 on

      What Chernobyl proved was that if you build something with the potential to do great harm if it exploded… don’t omit safety information in training to hide a potentially dangerous scenario that could arise due to the use of cheap parts.

    19. Titswari on

      I’m a big fan of nuclear energy and believe we need to transition to it heavily, as it’s the most efficient and cleanest of energy resources, but this is a terrible example.

      The Hindenburg disaster killed 36 people, Chernobyl is still unlivable. It’s like comparing a gunshot wound to a firebombing campaign.

    22. Rook_James_Bitch on

      Ah, good ol’ False Equivalence rears it’s stupid head on Reddit again.

      I remember when Reddit used to have hoards of intelligent people on it.

    25. benNachtheim on

      The problem was never Chernobyl or other disasters beyond all expectations. The problem was always the nuclear waste. It has to be stored for 1 million years.

      I do not trust humans in 1000 or 10,000 let alone 100,000 years to understand what they need to do with our nuclear waste to be safe.

      Also, whenever the costs for nuclear energy are calculated, they do not comprise the true costs because a) nuclear plants are not insured and the risk is paid by the tax payer and b) the next 4 million generations have to pay for potential issues with the nuclear waste.

    26. SLiiQ_ on

      Chernobyl WAS proof that cutting corners and keeping secrets have no place within a nuclear power plant

    28. Cheyruz on

      This is honestly the exact dumbest example for this argument. Did you sabotage yourself on purpose?

    31. KFChero1 on

      Chernobyl was caused by underfunding by the USSR and equipment failure on-site, not the uranium itself

      We should oppose badly run nuclear power plants instead

    32. MasterOfWarCrimes on

      i mean its been proven that chernobyl became what it is now because of shitty design, operator error, and poor maintenance and its also been proven that nuclear power is safe if you arent the ussr.

    33. ultrainstict on

      Also notably chernobyl occured because the people maintaining it had no idea what they were doing, no one present had any idea what the technology was nor were they involved in making the reactor. And even then had they done nothing the crisis would have been substantially smaller but in among their mistakes was disabling safety feature that would have prevented the disaster.

      If anything chernobyl stands as a testament to the safety of nuclear technology as they literally had to do every single thing wrong for that to have occurred.

    34. Teranas on

      People in this thread pretending Chernobyl was the only catastrophic nuclear failure while 15 years ago a tsunami caused a decent part of Japan to become inhabitable that needed to be recovered in an insane effort with huge workforce. Lets stick to the most expensive sources of energy instead of safe green energy. Makes sense.

    35. maschine02 on

      I was always confused by the anti nuclear people after Chernobyl. Like do they not realize how shitty things were built in the USSR back then and how the communist structure meant that it was better to ignore problems than get disappeared to the gulag??

    36. kurinevair666 on

      Honestly, that’s fucked up as this is going sound, Chernobyl taught us a lot about nuclear safety that was completely overlooked.

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