People won’t be able to safely live in the Chernobyl-area for 15,000 years.
That’s a long time.
I’m not even optimistic that human beings will still be here on Earth in 15,000 years.
Our future can go one of two ways: we’ll go extinct (I think this is more likely, and will probably happen in the next 200 years or so—just ballparking it), or we’ll become inter-planetary and leave Earth for better resources elsewhere.
Regardless of our future as a species, we should figure out how to most effectively utilize Chernobyl RIGHT NOW.
Fine, people can’t live there. We should still figure out some way to use the land itself, though.
Chernobyl is basically a “free-play” area that we’re severely under-utilizing. There’s so much we can do there.
Like, what if we intentionally blew up the core of one of the other 3 reactors. Would the 2 exploded reactors cancel out each other’s radioactivity? Who knows?
It doesn’t have to be a sophisticated experiment, either.
Like, we could try to build the world’s biggest whoopie cushion, drop it on Chernobyl (specifically Reactor 4, if possible), and airlift an 18-wheeler truck onto it. Can you imagine how loud that whoopie cushion would sound? It’d be hysterical!
We should allow human test-subjects to volunteer at their own will to test the effects of radiation on themselves when drinking different types of milk. Like, if you were to take 4 identical individuals, put them in the most radioactive section of Chernobyl, but give them each a different milk to drink (skim, 1%, 2%, whole), what would happen. Would one of the milks be the perfect antidote to radiation poisoning? Would all the test subjects just die anyway, regardless of the milk given to them, simply because milk isn’t the antidote to radiation 400 times more powerful than that of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima? I don’t know, because we still haven’t tried it yet (any nobody is giving me answers).
Until next time,
Michael J. Erickson, CEO & Co-Founder
