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All right, here's a question for you. Who builds the voting machines for smaller democracies? I don't know the answer to this question so it's a question that I probably should know the answer. I shouldn't ask it. But for countries that have legitimate voting processes and people really do, you know the leaders do change based on the votes, who makes those voting machines? Let's say Africa. If yo…
← Previous segment →Good news. Russia has put a new nuclear power plant on a boat. So they've figured out how to make a small enough nuclear power plant that they can put it on a boat and take it to a remote part of Russia, pull into the bay, hook it up with wires and provide power to remote places where it would be too hard apparently to go build a building. So they put it on a boat and take the boat there.
Now think about that. Yeah I know you're worried that the Russians don't have the same safety standards that we would like. I got a question for you. What happens when radiation gets in the ocean? I always wondered if you had a big nuclear event in the ocean, like let's say when we did our underwater nuclear tests and stuff, where does all that radiation go? If you fill the ocean with radiation, doesn't it just sort of spread out forever? Does it stay in one place? I don't understand the risks. I don't know if the risks of a nuclear event in the ocean is big or small. I can't tell.
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All right, those are the big stories of the day. I got a little late start today because my fire alarm went off, or at least the low battery alarm went off. So I'm gonna look on CNN's homepage and see what I missed. Magician's body found after a failed river escape stunt. Well here's my advice to anybody who wants to copy Houdini. That's really not the kind of job that has a long life expectancy.…
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