[Brett66]

You laugh about the absurdity of people worried about contaminating space with radiation but these enviro-goofs do make that argument seriously. Anyone with half a brain knows better, but that's assuming the enviro-weenies have a brain at all.
Something I still can't figure out is why Michio Kaku, a brilliant physicist, spearheaded all of the protests against Cassini which was powered by a nuclear battery.
There was no scenario under which that battery was a threat to the Earth, even if it blew up and sprayed debris all over the US.
Kaku knew this, but there he was throwing in his hat with the brain dead enviro-weenies and their uninformed fearmongering.
I still can't figure out why he supported the insane ramblings of these freaks.
Maybe he's just a Marxist and all of the useful idiots generally served his purposes.

[aruanan]

Something I still can't figure out is why Michio Kaku, a brilliant physicist, spearheaded all of the protests against Cassini which was powered by a nuclear battery.

Well, look at all the scientists who were leftists who spearheaded the "we're drowning in industrial carcinogens spewed by the greedy industrialist capitalist pigs and we're all going to get cancer and die" bugaboo of the late 60's, early 70's. Even though there was NOTHING in their science which prescribed the drastic measures they proposed, they still called for dramatic government controls over chemicals, "just to be safe". We have the current EPA, OSHA, and the Toxic Substances Control Act as a result. When it comes to choosing between their religion of socialism and science, they'll choose their religion almost every time.