think of how many tons of radioactive waste
that would have been generated in that time, and we would not have anywhere to store it or any way to reduce the radioactivity.
Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.
- - - Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" 1897