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NASA Endangering Life on Earth with Plutonium Launches
Posted By ben On 13th December 2005 @ 19:39 In US Govt, headline news | No Comments
Who authorized these folks to endanger life on earth just to launch a plutonium powered satellite to pluto. Unbelievably, there is a 6% (1/16) chance of failure- and this is not the only launch, they have more planned- and they’ve already crashed, spreading 2.1 pounds of plutonium into the atmosphere. This time they’re sending 24 pounds.
Of the 25 U.S. space missions using plutonium fuel, three have undergone accidents, admits the NASA EIS on New Horizons. That’s a 1-in-8 record.
The worst occurred in 1964 .. with 2.1 pounds of plutonium fuel. It .. failed to achieve orbit and dropped to Earth .. disintegrated in the fall, spreading plutonium widely. Release of that plutonium caused an increase in global lung cancer rates, says Dr. John Gofman, professor emeritus of medical physics at the University of California at Berkeley.
One bad mistake and this could be a global catastrophe worse than any terrorist attack, plutonium particles less than a micron in diameter could spread globally
through parts of the Caribbean, across North Africa and the Mideast and then India and China and Hawaii and other Pacific Islands and then Mexico and southern Texas.
Yet they’re going ahead with it- and the machinists working on it are scabs because the Boeing Union was on strike at the time!
Scabs are sending plutonium into space!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Whatever happened to sanity?
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