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p, you're going to move further than it would be comfortable to be the owner of something being rebuilt because you really need to visit the site a lot. If you've ever built a home you kind of need to go there a lot. I think people are going to assume they'll rebuild but when they get settled somewhere else that won't be that close maybe the new life looks better than trying to go back. So I think…

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railing against fake news. The continuous creation and spread of fake news he said distorts facts but also perceptions. So the pope is going full MAGA, full MAGA, and he's against fake news. Well all I got to say is thank God all the religions agree with each other because I'd hate for one of them to be spreading any fake news. But the pope assures us he's got it under control.

In interesting engineering there's an article by Aman Chhabra. Apparently there's a US firm in the nuclear business that wants to build a one mile underground tunnel or hole, I'm not sure if it's a tunnel or hole, to power data centers. So the reason they want to put the nuke in the hole one mile down is if there's a problem it's easier to contain. But if there's a problem it contains itself because it can't explode because it would be held up by the entire Earth would be the surround for it. So I don't know if that really works but these aren't the biggest reactors. They would be I think micro reactors, smaller reactors. And they would stick them in the ground and then that would make a big difference.

Some of the benefits are robust containment just because of the Earth around it and continuous pressure so that way you don't have massive concrete structures. Oh so it's much cheaper. So you don't have to build the whole structure if you can make a good mile deep hole. And it minimizes the environmental impact. And I've told you a number of times that holes are the future of energy and maybe of other

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things. And I've said if we can improve our technology for cheaply building holes and tunnels we're going to be able to have everything from geothermal to better mining to now nuclear. Of course you could use it for geothermal where you're looking for the hot water under the Earth to create power. But what's the one where you're just using the temperature difference underground to either moderate…

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