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  • rookEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Ahh, but you can sterilise the incoming seawater by irradiating it, and by a happy coincidence I’ve come up with a way to reduce the cost and weight of the reactor shielding.

    • SoyweiserEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Bob says ‘Sup’

      (That is what the mutated giant jellyfish who lives in my reactor calls himself. (Yeah I know that radiation doesn’t mutate like that, we don’t live in a science fiction world, the jellyfish otoh)).

      • rookEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        Nah, that’s just the global-warming-induced warm water they like, the presence of a reactor was incidental… swarms around any sort of suction system are going to be a problem.

        I can offer you a upgrade in the form of an array of radioactive spinning blades if you’d like.

        (in theory you could deploy your data centres in places where nutrient levels are low, so there’s less plankton and so a much reduced risk of jellyfish swarms, but I have absolutely no faith that these cowboys would even stop to think about that for one moment)

        • SoyweiserEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah these are the same sort of people (some literally the same) who want to put data centers in space so, I dont think they did much thinking about it at all.