Wayne Smith the BindiIrwin.Com Guy

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Generously donated to Terri Irwin and now directing to Australia Zoo's website. I even redirected it for John Stainton using his computer at the Best Picture Company in Brisbane.
ERICAPACKER.COM!
EricaPacker.Com
Couldn't resist gobbling up that domain! I don't care who you are Mr Jamie Packer . Nobody trashes me in the press without retribution.
REMEMBER!
The prolongated application of a polysyllabic vocabulary infallibly exercises a deleterious influence on the fecundity of expression, rendering the ultimate tendency apocryphal.
TRANSLATION:
If you use too many long words, nobody will understand what you are talking about.
REAL STARSHIPS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY!
PROJECT ORION
The first time in modern history that a major expansion of human technology has been suppressed for political reasons!
Meet the Bindi Irwin Cybersquatter!
I recently purchased BindiIrwin.Com after I realised that John Stainton (the Irwin's manager) had carelessly neglected to secure that rather valuable piece of prime internet real estate. Then I emailed him offering the domain to Terri Irwin free of charge. Yeah, I know, if I'd kept it I could've made a fortune from advertising revenue, but I have these sudden unaccountable fits of niceness from time to time. Hey, nobody's perfect. Bindi Irwin is ofcourse the daughter of Crocodile Hunter's Steve and Terri Irwin and as everybody knows Steve Irwin died while filming undersea footage for Bindi 's new television show ' Bindi Irwin the Jungle Girl'. It was expected to begin airing in the United States last January. The show has now been pushed back a year thanks to insidious journalists and radio jockeys who falsely accused John Stainton of trying to force Bindi into show business too early. Bindi 's dream of following in her fathers footsteps has now been temporarily dashed by these depraved media vultures. John Stainton who is understandably disgusted with these dirtbags has now taken a one year holiday. I reckon he needs one after putting up with those gutless ambulance chasers. I kind of know how he feels.
This was the first of many dozens of completely fabricated stories suddenly spewed up by the mass media about my purchase of BindiIrwin.Com and it came as a complete surprise to me.
Bindi Irwin Cybersquatter ABHORRENT! ~ Oct 5 2006
Ouch! Especially since I'd done nothing either morally or legally wrong in the first place. I could hardly believe that the Sydney Morning Herald would dedicate so many pages to some tedious internet story. But then I thought about it and decided that wasn't so hard to believe at all. The Sydney Morning Herald has never prided itself on its accuracy or honesty. The other stories in the 'Courier Mail', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Sunshine Coast Daily' etc etc etc were only copied and further sensationalised rewrites of the same crap originally appearing in SMH. Clearly they had all been published without any serious research having been done. So I took it upon myself to try and clarify matters.
My reply:
Bindi Irwin Cybersquatter not a Cybersquatter!
"ARRRRR!"
ONLINE POLL!
Is Wayne Smith who bought BindiIrwin.Com a Cybersquatter?
99% voted No, he gave the domain away to the Irwins and saved it from real Cybersquatters.
Vote now at Opinion.Com.Au!
So what do you think? Am I a Cybersquatter? Have your say! I just strumbled onto this rather dated internet poll. Wow! I'm famous! Or should I say 'infamous'? LOL.
Trying to demand a retraction from the irresponsible and unprofessional halfwits at the Sydney Morning Herald was like chucking water at an olympic swimmer. Utterly pointless. Eventually, in the absence of an apology from that unethical gutter rag I decided to write the above article. Yes, I actually wrote a story about myself. How narcissistic is that!
Then TMZ.Com interviewed me and published a slightly more accurate piece with not quite so many false assumptions and out of context selective editing of my online comments:
Bindi Irwin's Website -- The Real Story?
For those wanting to read more of this gutter press garbage.
Here are a handful of other stories about me. I can't list all of them as there are hundreds. The media frenzy spread to such exotic places as Hong Kong, Britain and America before reporters realised they had made an embarassing blunder. Then it died very quickly indeed.
Bindi cyber squatter fury ~ The Age.
Cybersquatter takes site ~ Courier Mail.
Anger as squatter buys Bindi Irwin website name ~ Sunshine Coast Daily.
Anger Erupts Over Fake Bindi Irwin Website ~ Entertainment Wise.
Man Registers Web Site With Bindi Irwin's Name, Links To Anti-Israel Material. ~ All Headline News.
Feel like another poll?
What would you have done with BindiIrwin.Com?
99% voted Sell it!
Vote at www.opinion.com.au!
The Ape Experiment!
Start with a cage containing five apes.
In the cage hang a banana on a string and put a stepladder underneath it.
Before long, an ape will go to the stairs and start climbing towards the Banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the apes with cold water.
After a while, another ape will make an attempt to reach the banana. Again, spray all of the apes with cold water.
Now turn off the cold water.
If, later, another ape tries to climb the stairs, the other apes will try to prevent him, even though no water sprays them.
Now, remove one ape from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new ape sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his horror, all of the other apes will attack him.
After another attempt and attack, he now knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted.
Next, remove another of the original five apes and replace it with a new one. The newcomer also goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm.
Again, replace a third original ape with a new one. The new one makes it to the stairs and is attacked as well.
Two of the four apes that beat him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest ape.
After replacing the fourth and fifth original apes, all the apes which were sprayed with cold water have now been replaced.
Nevertheless, none of the apes ever approach the stairs again. Why not?
"Because that's the way it's always been around here."
Sound familiar?
Yale Simkin the Internet Stalker!
So how did the 'Sydney Morning Herald Gutter Rag' get hold of this wildly innacurate story about 'nothing'? It took me some time to discover the answer to that question but I wasn't too astonished to find that a man from Bolingbrook, Chicago with an axe to grind was the culprit responsible. A very sick and twisted Wikipedian fellow named Yale Simkin (often going under the username of Yales) had fed misleading information to this major tabloid in order to defame me. Why? I once called this guy an idiot over at a discussion forum. To then prove to me that he wasn't an idiot he has been stalking me around the internet for over 8 years. To say that I dislike this internet pest would be putting it mildly. Imagine a person totally devoid of any morale standards who is completely obsessed with his own popularity and capable of doing anything to annoy his perceived enemies. Add slightly psychopathic, utterly ruthless and totally in love with himself to the picture. He posts at forums using multiple aliases to back himself up in arguments. Usually respected figures from history with whom he has abolutely nothing in common whatsoever. Giordano Bruno, Pericles etc. I've done everything in my power to get this pathetic sad sack off my back. His obsession with me is quite alarming. If it was a young pretty girl showing me this sort of attention then I'd be flattered but Yale Simkin is a wealthy male middle aged Jew and a complete nutcase to boot.
Posting unfounded defamatory libel about me everywhere he could get away with it simply wasn't good enough for him. Destroying several message boards I had created by harassing members until they left made me want to throttle him. Impersonating me with a similar username at Space.Com and then posting pornographic images there was despicably low. But it seems not as low as he could go. He has now shown himself to be not only a compulsive liar, manipulator and pornspammer but a depraved lunatic quite capable of using an innocent 8 year old child celebrity to attack me through the mass media . Now that's just plain creepy as far as I'm concerned.
Shame on you Yales. Over at my last forum Universe Daily I got so sick and tired of his vandalism that I began taunting him with anti-jewish comments. Knowing that he was sensitive about this and that he always seemed to be lurking in the background reading every post I made, it gave me a certain measure of self satisfaction. At that point I just didn't give a rats behind anymore. A person can only take so much provocation from a gutless jerk like Yales before cracking.
"SCREW YOU KYLE YOU JEW RAT!!!"
To be perfectly honest I wasn't even certain what a Jew was before having the misfortune of meeting Yales online. I vaguely understood that Hitler took a great disliking to them. and that a whole bunch of them stole land from Palestine before renaming it Israel. I've since realised that these nationless land thieves actually believe themselves to be "God's chosen". That might explain why Yales is such a smug and obnoxious bastard. They are referred to in the Bible as the Israelites. Being Agnostic this doesn't impress me very much. I think I now understand what caused the holocaust. No doubt a young homeless struggling artist named Adolf Hitler met a rich condescending asshole jew like Yale Simkin. Perhaps an ancestor of this depraved creature.
Yale Simkin likes to think he is a wise and learned man like many of the names from history he appropriates as usernames. Yales once told me that no country would ever step away from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. "Not in a thousand years!" he waffled. Shortly afterwards N.Korea did exactly that. Other ill considered “predictions” of his include Breeder Reactors “never ever” making a comeback. That was shortly before India did in fact bring them back. He even refused to accept the possibility of a blackmarket trade in Uranium. How naive can you get? Seemed like commonsense to me. So be wary of his “claims” if you are ever unfortunate enough to hear him espousing any. They aren't even worth a wikipedia fact. I've learned to check his statements constantly. He has a habit of twisting reality around to his suit his own particular needs if you know what I mean. He has been banned from countless forums under various aliases. Not a crime in and of itself ofcourse. Some message boards are only good for getting banned from. The internet is a free for all jungle where any luddite can start their own forum and fair moderation is a rare commodity. For Yales though, his getting banned is generally a result of having harassed administrators to the point that they boot him out the door in the hope of obtaining some peace and quiet. If you've ever seen the length of his posts you'll know what I mean. Imagine getting a dozen of those every day in your email box. He is also violently anti-nuclear and frequently trolls forums just to attack a certain individual. Me usually. That seems to be his “specialty”.
The anti-jewish jibes I posted at the Universe Daily forum were written solely for Yale Simkin's benefit and I didn't think much of it at the time. Nobody else was visiting the board after Yales had successfully vandalised the place. I hardly thought my comments would count for much in the vast ocean of the internet but Yale Simkin is nothing if not an opportunist. After purchasing BindiIrwin.Com I closed down all the political discussions going on there so nobody could see these topics. It was then that Yales called the Sydney Morning Herald and claimed that a Nazi owned the domain. He had copied the pages of rant he considered most useful and added them to an archive he keeps on me. I told you he was obsessed. I mean what kind of fruitcake stalks someone around the internet copying their every utterance. He reaslly needs to get a life of his own and stop living through me. Its sadly pathetic.
I have no regrets. Well, only one. That I haven't had an opportunity to kick the living shit out of Yales yet.
My Articles.
When not wasting time on correcting the mass media's lies about me, I sometimes scribble up a science article or two for online magazines. Here are a few I enjoyed writing.
The Nuclear Heart of Planet Earth ~ Spacedaily.
What would we find if we were to dig a hole all the way down to the centre of the Earth?
Nuclear Space And Fears Of Nuclear Proliferation ~ Spacedaily.
According to New York's Democratic Senator Charles Schumer, "It doesn't matter how good our airport security is if all it takes to bring a nuclear device right into midtown is putting it on a ship or bringing it in on a truck."
The Exploratory Ape ~ Light Science.
For opportunists life is hard. The animal kingdom is largely divided into those who are specialists and those who explore. Specialists have discovered a niche of their own. They have beaten the competition by taking one narrow path in evolution and excelling in it.
Will There Be A Nuclear Space Race Between America And China ~ Spacedaily.
In Greek mythology, Prometheus was the Titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humanity. Arthur C. Clarke's early novel "Prelude to Space" featured a nuclear powered ram jet for the first stage of a moon mission; it was called Prometheus as well.
NASA To Boost Nuclear Space Science With Project Prometheus ~ Spacedaily.
NASA is finally expected to announce a new nuclear rocket development program as it's top priority soon. They will, during the next couple of weeks, be requesting resources and funding from congress to design this system. Estimated to have a thrust to weight ratio outperforming current technology by at least 300%, the new rocket could revolutionize space travel.
The Case For Orion ~ Spacedaily.
"Orion" was the project name of a spacecraft design study so absurd that it stood absolutely no chance of success from the very outset. The drive mechanism was to be an atomic bomb machine gun. Ridiculous as the idea seems it was still given a shoestring budget and a team of top scientists to work on it. The results of that research which ended about two generations ago are still largely classified, but what is known raises some startling questions.
Facing Pandora's Box Of Nuclear Myths And Prejudices ~ Spacedaily.
Two generations of bad press leaves its mark. You hear the same kind of nonsense over and over again and it gets engraved on your brain whether factual or not. Hollywood, never one to miss out on a revenue making idea, long ago recognized the selling power of fear. Whether or not the fear can be justified is absolutely irrelevant. After all, the first rule of moviemaking is not to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
The Ultimate Weapon ~ Spacedaily.
Sooner or later, it's hoped, we will reach out to space in a serious way. Not to merely stick another flag on the moon or throw more money at a space station but to gain a permanent foothold out there.
Space Critters ~ Spacedaily.
Bug eyed monsters. We've all seen them. We were even frightened by them before desensitisation to the movie monster genre set in. The 1964 movie 'The first men in the moon' was based on a science fiction novel written by H.G.Wells.
Just opinion pieces written for fun. I believe that nuclear energy should be embraced as a stepping stone to possibly even more compact and advanced technologies. On it's own it makes real starships a practical consideration. The rocket technologies currently being used by NASA are based on weak chemical fuels that simply aren't up to the task. Literally a mountain of fuel to put a proverbial pea into space. You wouldn't throw away a new car after only driving it once to the shops but that's essentially what is done with brand spanking new rockets. They make one trip into space and that's it. This is because the only way these pathetic chemical engines can be made to work is by lightening the load along the way. The rockets ditch compartments called 'stages' as they empty of fuel. It took a 5 stage rocket just to reach the moon. With a nuclear rocket which uses far more compact and immensely more powerful fuel we don't have to worry about that nonsense. Reaching Mars or even other star systems becomes feasible once we take that next step. But only if we become brave enough to grasp the technology available. The current crop of Politicians supposedly leading us today have no courage. Balls equivalent to a spider monkey in fact. So Star Trek isn't going to become a reality any time soon. Not if our future is left in their hands. An asteroid or long period comet could be on its way to wipe us out right now and even if we had several years notice we still wouldn't be able to stop it. There has been virtually no progress in space exploration over the last few decades despite the fact that we've had atleast one perfectly reasonable and functional STARSHIP design available to us since the 1950's called Project Orion .
Jodhi Meares!
Guess who has purchased the celebrity domain of Jodhi Meares. Me! Can't wait to see what kind of story the Sydney Morning Herald Gutter Rag comes up with this time around. In my experience Reporters, Politicians and Lawyers are all essentially useless creatures. A terrible drain on the economy too.
ONLINE POLL!
Did Jodhi Meares marry James Packer for his money?
I ain't sayin she a Gold digger, but she ain't messin with no broke nigger!
Jodie Meares was her original name. She became Jodhi Packer for a brief time after marrying into the Packer fortune. Jodhi Meares is the altered version a numerologist advised her to adopt. Women can never make up their minds about anything can they.
Jodhi Meares is an aspiring actress, James Packer's ex-wife, host of the reality show 'Australia's Next Top Model', an occasional guest reporter for Getaway, fashion designer for Tigerlily Swimwear, owner of Tigerlily Swimwear and an ex-bikini model. To name but a few of her claims to fame.
JodhiMeares.Com
Jodhi Meares News
Meares sews up a summer of love
June 2, 2007
She's a member of Australia's exclusive Billionaires' First Wives Club, but don't expect to see Jodhi Meares moping about the place as her famous former hubby ties the knot in the Cote d'Azur in a few weeks.
Tears, tiffs and tanties
March 22, 2007
Fashion is tough, says new reality host Jodhi Meares.
Interview: Jodhi Meares
March 21, 2007
For Jodhi, who spent her late teens sharing house with up to 30 or 40 models in Europe, the elimination process has been gruelling.
Australia's next top mogul!
March 04, 2007
Meet Jodhi Meares, über-glam beach babe with a brain. Don’t mention her ex, I’m told, and we’ll get on just fine.
Jodhi's weekly wardrobe malfunctions
Would anyone care to join me in a bit of a collection for Jodhi Meares? I've realised that the ex-Mrs Packer must be short a few bucks, because clearly, she can only afford to wear Tiger Lily cast-off bikinis on Getaway!
James Packer & Jodhi Meares an item again?
James Packer and ex-wife Jodhi Meares are working towards a romantic reconciliation.
Jodhi Meares to host Australia's Next Top Model 2007.
The swimsuit pin-up won the drawn out auditioning process.
Judge Jodhi puts beauties on trial.
Thirteen lucky women will be selected from around Australia to live together in a luxury mansion in Sydney and star in the popular series.
Jodhi Meares at Wikipedia!
After seeing no page existed at Wikipedia I decided to create one. Feel free to edit it!
Jodhi Meares: my best times.
At 15 Jodhi Meares was a swimsuit model. Now she has her own swimwear label, Tigerlily, and travels the globe as a guest presenter on the Nine Network's Getaway show.
Revenge! Muwa ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA!
I'm not entirely sure who owns a majority shareholding in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper which broke the ridiculous 'Bindi Irwin Cybersquatter story'. Rupert Murdoch did have a majority share in FAIRFAX but the changes in Australian media ownership laws have caused a major reshuffle. I believe that Mr James Packer the executive chairman of PBL now owns a goodly portion of that defamatory gutter rag .
Incidentally Rupert Murdoch recently bought out MySpace . I've recently purchased both the domains of his wife Wendi Murdoch and youngest child Chloe Murdoch . Consequently I'll be copying out the material here in case the page suddenly vanishes mysteriously for no apparent reason. Mr James Packer may be the richest man in Australia but money can't buy JamiePacker.Com , JamesPacker.Org , or JamesPacker.Net .
Apparently the fat idiot son of now deceased Media Mogul Kerry Packer isn't getting back together with his ex-wife Jodhi Packer after all. Instead he's sealing a new deal with pretend singer Erica Baxter. Erica Baxter has done everything to win over James Packer 's cold and mean little heart. Even studying up on that ridiculous pseudoscience called 'Scientology' to win him over. For those unfamiliar with the worlds biggest cult, Scientology was established by the late science fiction writer L.Ron Hubbard and routinely scams millions of dollars from unsuspecting sad, pathetic and lonely people. Those seeking some sort of meaning in their lives and a place to fit in. Essentially those who are dumb enough to fall for Scientology's bullshit mantra.
The Scientology Cult only registered itself as a Church to keep the Government's of this world out of it's filing cabinets. They harass and stalk anyone who badmouths them and even have their own domestic terrorist units who enjoy burning down pharmaceutical stores. Ofcourse, it isn't just sheep who join this monstrous organisation. A few members join in order to try and get a slice of the monetary pie which is considerable. Did James Packer and Tom Cruise fall for Scientology's rather transparent blend of psychology and mysticism wrapped up in a pretty bow? Did they see Scientology as a means to obtaining more money? Who cares? Either answer reflects poorly on them.
When I complain about anything I believe in going straight to the top. No point in exchanging small talk with hired flunkies. If James Packer is reading this he now knows I'm rather unhappy with his new toy the Sydney Morning Herald and I'm still awaiting that retraction.
I wonder how much money James Packers newest aquisition 'Erica Baxter' will get out of her divorce when it comes around. Jodhi Meares made millions of dollars (not including her free beach house). Incidentally, I hope that new hosting role on 'Australia's Next Top Model' works out. I'm sure the fact that her ex-hubby owns channel 9 had nothing to do with her being selected for that position over other much younger and more talented hopefuls. Didn't the last host get sacked for moonlighting? How odd. Jodhi Meares also works as a guest reporter on 'Getaway'.
Nobody messes with this little black duck!
I suppose I could have made a fortune out of that valuable BindiIrwin.Com address and many pundits expected me to do so, but it seemed a little opportunistic to try and I respect what Steve Irwin did to promote important wildlife projects around the globe. So after I emailed Mr John Stainton offering it to Terri Irwin for free I pretty much forgot about it. Getting on with other things while I awaited a reply from John Stainton's office advising where he wanted the domain transferred.
While awaiting these transfer details from him I suddenly became a bit of a celebrity. The Sydney Morning Herald story accused me of trying to profit from the purchase. Calling me a Cybersquatter and anti-semitic among other hilarious claims. I'm actually anti-zionist as indeed are many jews and I had to look up 'Cybersquatter' in a dictionary. It's somebody who makes a lot of money from celebrity domain names. I've never tried to make a cent from the internet in my whole life so that shoe isn't going to fit. I suppose if I was the sort of person who believes everything that they read in newspapers then I would have been offended. It never ceases to amaze me how amateurish and ignorant of their topic's many Australian journalist's are. David Braithwaite and Jano Gibson clearly have next to no understanding of how domain registration works. I posted a reply at my internet forum immediately. It was very popular for a few days.
So I transferred BindiIrwin.Com over to John Stainton 's care just as I'd been promising to and thought that would be the end of this silliness. I was wrong. The Press then wrote that I'd been FORCED to hand it over! Wow! What a hide these journalists have.
Unbelievable!
Then there was yet another follow up by a fourth rate hack at the Courier Mail named Richard Finnila who tried to accuse me of targeting political names for money.
By the way Mr Finnila , I'll happily meet you in any queensland pub you care to name, should your balls ever drop and you find the courage to settle this with a little fisticuffs. You are a gutless snivelling coward. I don't suppose you'll accept that offer but I'll leave it open. Oh, look, an ambulance! Quick! You'd better go chase it!
He listed the one dozen politicians domain names in the article and I promptly redirected them all to my hastily written reply . It had thousands of hits that morning. Every politician in Queensland read it and I was phoned by the deputy state director of the liberal party that very day. He apologised about the misunderstanding and explained how he and his party colleagues had been duped by this lowlife reporter. Richard Finnila was actually planning to write up yet another story but being caught with his pants down shut the idiot up real fast. I'll never believe anything I read in a newspaper ever again after that comical fiasco. He even intimated that I had 60 other celebrity domains. Other than the dozen political domains I had one and I'd promised that to Jonathan Breck months earlier.
I've come to realise that most people don't have much understanding of how this domain registration business works. The 'Dot Com' domains are the most sought after and anyone with a credit card can legally buy any available domain name for next to peanuts. That includes celebrity names. Even Prime Minister John Howard cannot get JohnHoward.Com away from the musician who currently owns it. Tom Cruise had to fight a Cybersquatter in court over TomCruise.Com ! The Cybersquatter had owned it for over 10 years and made advertising revenue from it the whole time. Tom only won on a technicality. Bruce Springsteen took the same guy to court over BruceSpringsteen.Com and lost! The internet is a new and evolving technology. Laws regarding personal domain name ownership are still blurry to say the least. It's complex and rather difficult to argue that any particular person can lay claim to any particular domain name. I mean, which "John Smith" is deserving of the domain name JohnSmith.Com do you think? Should they draw straws? I'm afraid the old maxim that ownership is 9 tenths of the law still applies with domain registration. Essentially the first person to buy a domain owns it completely and has the first option on renewing it when the registration expires.
I don't make the rules, but I've been villified by the Sydney Morning Herald for being aware of them and taking measures to stop others with an entrepreneurial bent from profitting over Bindi's fame. I did the Irwin's a huge favour by saving BindiIrwin.Com from professional domain hunters who make a living out of collecting such celebrity URL's. They would doubtless have grabbed that one in next to no time if I hadn't taken it first. It happens to celebrities constantly. I didn't ask for anything in return for the domain when I offered it to Terri Irwin and I certainly wasn't expecting all the media hype. I recieved an enormous beat up in the Press but I'd do the same thing all over again in a heartbeat. I've never much cared about my public image anyway. Anyone even halfway internet literate could see that the entire article was gibberish and I've had great fun during my five minutes of "infamy". By the way, claims about the Irwin's being "devastated" over my purchase of that domain name were also rubbish. John Stainton passed a message on to me saying that he was extremely thankful for what I did. If I hadn't secured that domain then it would have very soon been purchased by somebody else and chances are they would have kept it. Even the BindiIrwin.Org and BindiIrwin.Net domains vanished within a few hours.
That was the fate of TerriIrwin.Com which was purchased by someone long ago. Another valuable domain Mr Stainton didn't purchase and which is now earning advertising revenue for somebody. Even JohnStainton.Com has now been taken and I don't think John has noticed yet.
Could this be the "World's Bravest Cat"?
Nuclear Australia!
NuclearAustralia.Com
I'm pro-nuclear and proud of the fact. Recently a board headed by Ziggy Switkowski came to the conclusion that Australia was perfect for a nuclear power industry and that this would be a great way of combatting global warming.
I realise that many people have been brainwashed by B-grade hollywood movies into thinking that nuclear energy is an evil menace to society. Lorded over by such monsters as Montgomery Burns from the Simpsons. But the truth of the matter is that nuclear energy is a gift to humanity. One which should have replaced fossil fuels long ago.
The biggest argument in the anti-nuclear brigade's arsenal has ofcourse always been Chernobyl. A fatal accident in backward Russia which took place over a generation ago as a result of sloppy work practices and a near total disregard for safety protocols. Less than 30 people died as a direct result of the reactor exploding. The mutations and radiation sickness deaths predicted by fearmongers never eventuated.
The old misconception that radiation of any level is incredibly dangerous has been proven completely false. We live in a naturally radioactive environment which has always been that way. The old 'Linear Non-Threshold Hypothesis' which drew a straight line graph supposedly calculating bodily harm has now been debunked in favour of the far more accurate 'Radiation Hormesis' study. Proving that low level exposure is not only harmless but beneficial. We actually need a prescribed level of radiation to grow normally and have always been surrounded by a natural background of it. Everything from rocks and tree's to the human body itself is radioactive. I hardly need to explain what sunshine is composed of either.
In the West there has never been a single fatality from nuclear reactors. Compare this to coal burning which routinely kills over 30,000 people every year and you have to wonder what all the fuss is about. Even cars and other automobiles kill more than one million people a year and I don't hear the rabied GreenPeace protestors jumping up and down over that incredible rate of mass death.
Another weak argument for banning nuclear energy is the waste created. My response to that is it's better to have nuclear waste that's completely captured than coal waste which is pumped directly into our atmosphere. Uranium, Thorium and countless other toxic nasties are found in coal beds. It all gets burned up with coal and thrown into our air supply. It's a fact that more radiation comes from coal plants than nuclear plants. So again the emotional ravings of the tree huggers just doesn't stand up to reality.
So what about storing the waste? The amount of waste created by nuclear plants is very small. In fact all the existing waste from the hundreds of plants around the world could be easily stored in a space smaller than a football stadium using steel drums and no stacking. I prefer to call waste 'spent fuel' because that's what it is and another option to storage would be to recycle it.
France currently gets 80% of its energy from safe nuclear energy. Canada is another leader in the use of nuclear power and Asia is building several new plants each year. This technology creates no CO2 except during the mining process so it's an obvious alternative to existing fossil fuel plants. In fact it's the only sensible solution for a power starved planet which faces Global Heat Death.
Another major problem faced by Australia is the water crisis. Many countries have already responded to water shortages by developing Nuclear Desalination projects. Desalination Plants built in conjunction with Nuclear Power Plants. Desalination is an energy intensive technology which means it requires a lot of electricity to run. To power such plants with coal would obviously compound the Global Warming situation. So Nuclear energy is the logical choice for Desalination. I emailed practically every politician in Australia about 10 years ago advising them of the importance of Nuclear Desalination and how action must be taken immediately. But ofcourse they didn't listen.