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 But does anybody else believe it's a hydrazine worry? Bob Nichols, a Project-Censored award-winning writer, called today to say he doesn't buy the Pentagon's story that they are shooting down the errant satellite because of hydrazine. Ed Siegel called to say the same thing: "No way! No way! That's ridiculous!" Bob's follow-up email included a letter published in Nature in 1973 which was written by some folks from the Atomic Energy Commission, and which presented the results of their tracking the Pu-238 from the 1964 SNAP-9A accident. Most of the Pu had stayed in the southern hemisphere, where the Plutonium levels had increased sometimes by more than double -- across ALL forms of Pu. Therefore, for many places in the southern hemisphere, such as Brisbane, Australia or Pretoria, South Africa, the single SNAP-9A accident, which released just 2.1 pounds of plutonium at an altitude of about 30 miles, causes more cancers than all the plutonium released from all the atmospheric weapons testing and weapons use in history. In the northern hemisphere, which is much more polluted from weapons testing, the Pu from the SNAP-9A accident contributed, at that time, about 1% to 2% of the total Pu burden, which was, in total, about five to ten time greater than in the southern hemisphere. After about five years, approximately 5% of the Pu from the SNAP-9A was estimated to still be in the atmosphere. It drops out very slowly. Today is my younger brother Dan'l's 50th birthday. Like many Americans, Daniel, a former aircraft mechanic and now a high school instructor, is an amateur astronomer / sky watcher. That means he has a telescope, often with a camera attached to it, and knows how to point it at things in the sky. Today, he can point his telescope at the full lunar eclipse, and at about the same time, he can look for 20,000 pounds of junk crashing to earth at 18,000 miles per hour. The first attempt to shoot it down will be concurrent with the eclipse. But the junk MIGHT include 25 pounds or more of plutonium. if so, like Caesar's last breath, today's tragedy will invade us all. I could not stop its launch in 2006, since the CIA / NASA always just say it's all "secret" and won't admit to what might be aboard. And I sure can't stop its falling. But shooting down this satellite is NOT about the hydrazine, that's for sure. Could it be because of any plutonium on board? ABSOLUTELY. No one mentions a word about the possibility of it being plutonium in the mainstream media's articles. But it's unlikely they are shooting this satellite down because of fears the Chinese will get hold of some "eeproms," as commentator "Deek Chainy" puts it in the comments underneath the WIRED article shown below. (It makes a nice cover story, though, I suppose.) Nukes are mentioned a few times in the comments (which I've edited slightly for taste; forgive me if I missed anything ugly), but mostly by woefully ignorant people who apparently think incineration during reentry will destroy the plutonium. It doesn't -- plutonium is an element, and incineration only spreads it around for humans and other living things to breath. If you try to call the Pentagon to ask them about the possibility of ANY spy satellite, and in particular this one, having plutonium on board, they'll tell you to call NASA about it. Pamela Blockey-O'Brien tried really, really hard to find out -- to get a definitive "NO" from them. First, she called the White House switchboard. "Huh?" they said, and suggested she call the Pentagon. They, of course, denied all ability to answer any questions about it because it was "secret" and suggested she call NASA instead, who, they told her, are actually in charge of space objects like that hunk of junk. A call to NASA produced, of course, the immediate response that she needs to call the Pentagon about that particular birdie, because it's their birdie, and NASA doesn't have anything to say about Pentagon Birdies. Pamela responded, somewhat annoyed: "THEY TOLD ME TO CALL YOU!!!!" After much haggling, she was given the Press Office number at the Pentagon, and assured that they would have an answer. But of course, they didn't, because when she called them, they said: "Are you the press?" "No" she replied. "Wait, please" they responded. So she waited five or ten minutes, but they finally came back on the line and said, "You're not the press, so we can't talk to you about that satellite." "But I'm going to talk to the press as soon as I hang up with YOU!" she responded. They chuckled a little, she told me, but wouldn't release any information. This whole thing, which took maybe 20 seconds for you to read and two minutes for me to write, took nearly two hours to accomplish for poor exhausted Pamela, on oxygen to begin with. And only to be told citizens don't have the rights that the "free" press has in America. We do NOT have official "press" credentials in America, though, so the whole excuse for not talking to her is unconstitutional and immoral! Last year, I sent a Freedom Of Information Act request to various government agencies trying to determine how much of the information about nuclear issues that I've sent them is being stored. The answer is NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING -- except the NRC had a couple of documents I sent to my then-Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham shortly before he attempted to commit murder / suicide on November 25th, 2005, just prior to his resignation / imprisonment. NASA officially knows NOTHING of anything I've ever said or written, even after all these long years of opposing their use of nuclear materials in space, both for spy satellites AND for "deep" space probes which are, I contend, merely a cover for the spy program's use of "RTG's."
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