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Open Sesame 04/02/16

In Bridge of Ashes, Roger Zelazny, he posits that evolution on this planet, it has been produced and directed by extraterrestrials, who have deliberately nudged human beings into developing a technological culture that will inevitably render the earth unfit for human habitation. But will, and thereby, produce conditions that are just perfect, for these extraterrestrials. Who will then move in and comfortably settle down.

Open Sesame 03/19/16

The Fukushima robots are dead; they die as soon as they go on the job. Five years on, the vaunted "subterranean ice wall" around the glow-tomb, intended to prevent further contamination of groundwater, it is not finished. The humans, they do not know how to dispose of the highly radioactive water, stored in an ever-increasing number of tanks, scattered around the site. The radiation, emanating from the mutant structure, it is so powerful, that it has proven impossible to find and remove melted blobs of fuel rods. The technology required to even establish the location of many such rods, it does not yet exist.

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