Desiring Machine

One learns something new everyday. While researching Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, I found myself reading about how it was used to in the search for computer scientist Jim Gray who was lost at sea (a fact I already knew). But what I did not know was that he was lost near the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco. While reading about the Farallon Islands on wikipedia I learned that near the islands was an oceanic radioactive waste dumping site in the mid 20th century.

Between 1946 and 1970, approximately 47,800 large barrels and other containers of radioactive waste were dumped in the ocean west of San Francisco. The containers were to be dumped at three designated sites, but they a litter sea floor area of at least 1,400 km2 known as the Farallon Island Radioactive Waste Dump.

Source: http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/farallon/radwaste.html

When our children’s children finally start to learn of all the things that this generation and the generation before have provided them as an inheritance they sure are going to be pissed.