Top 10 Uses for WIPP other than a nuclear waste dump:

  • 10 - A "Taxpayer's Sacrifice Zone" - beats the hell out of one more "National Sacrifice Zone" if you think about it.

  • 9 - Bury the entire DOE in it, and seal it for 450,000 years.

  • 8 - Awesome recording studio with bizarre acoustics.

  • 7 - Carlsbad's first year-round Ice Hockey rink and meat locker.

  • 6 - Novelty shopping mall.

  • 5 - Use it to contain congressional paper waste instead of nuclear waste (expires in 2004).

  • 4 - Pay Carlsbad residents to leave it empty and we can all go home and eat dinner.

  • 3 - More useful as a national bomb shelter if LANL doesn't get a grip on itself soon.

  • 2 - Abandon it completely and let our decsendents build myths and religons around it.

  • 1 - A 21st century Movie Ranch for sci-fi filmakers on a budget.

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