Re: 42nd Known Mersenne Prime Found == 2^25,964,951-1 == The number has 7,816,230 digits

From: Jan Panteltje (pNaonStpealmtje_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:51:53 GMT

On a sunny day (Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:27:44 -0300) it happened
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E9cio?= Luiz Gazzoni Filho <decio@decpp.removethis.net> wrote
in <38go2vF5nvgp8U1@individual.net>:

>> Of course, on the short term, searching for Mersenne primes is just
>> another creative way to further deplete the Earth oil and coal stocks,
>> and increase greenhouse effect.
Perhaps.

>I don't contribute to the greenhouse effect -- my country runs mostly on
>hydroelectric power.
Ah

>Now, if only you people over there quit being afraid of the `nucular'
>boogeyman...
I have not reacted , I knew about that prime about 8 days ago, then
they were still verifying I think.
Nothing to do with crypt (that I can see).
As foe taking away the fear for nuclear power, the US seems to be busy
to make people think nuclear is OK, so they can start testing again,
or after they throw some of it, make people believe it is very safe to
live in a nuke crater.
I have beef FOR nuclear power all my life, the greenies had so much
political influence... But US propaganda is now in support.

So we MUST discriminate between what is safe (well designed nuclear power
plants), and what is NOT safe (nuclear atmospheric testing for example).
And it is all too easy to joke around with radiation, I have worked in
research environment that later turned out to be totally contaminated
(some years after I left).
That merely confirmed the stories I heard there.

Even if there is no irresponsible risk taking form some industrial power,
there is always the human factor of the people who work there, and 'know it
all'.

really need some plutonium in this coffee, too much sugar no good for you/

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