XPost: sci.space.policy, sci.physics   
   From: vaughnsimon@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/14/2016 7:28 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   > In sci.physics Vaughn Simon  wrote:   
   >> > On 10/14/2016 5:14 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:   
   >>> >> The smallest nuclear power plant in the US generates 479 MW, so a 50 MW   
   >>> >> reactor would be tiny by comparison.   
   >> > Errr, do you mean the smallest commercial utility nuclear power plant?   
   >> > Because there are many nuclear reactors in the USA that are smaller than   
   >> > 479 MW.   
   > Yes.   
   >   
   > I'm talking about things in production.   
      
   So naval nuclear power plants are not "in production"?   
      
   >   
   >> > So really?  You are saying that that a 50 MW nuke plant is "tiny" in   
   >> > comparison to a utility-sized power plant, so it must therefore be   
   >> > doable for us to build a MERE 50 MW plant on Mars?  Really?   
   > I never said it could be done, would be afforadble, practical, or   
   > anything like that.   
   >   
   > What I am saying is a 50 MW plant is tiny in comparison to what runs   
   > the real world.   
   >   
   >> > Well hell, the ISS is "tiny" in comparison to NASA's massive Vehicle   
   >> > Assembly Building, so constructing the ISS should have been a fucking   
   >> > snap for NASA.   
      
   > Irrelevant.   
      
   Precisely!  Your comparison between a utility-sized nuclear power plant   
   and your proposed 50 MW plant is similarly irrelevant.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)