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NASA's Plutonium filled Cassini had 1/20 chance of blowing up in Earth's atmosphere.
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[quote:^Lisa^Love^:MV8xNjI0MjYxX0Q0Rjc0RkEy] NASA's Plutonium filled Cassini had 1/20 chance of blowing up in Earth's atmosphere. Michio Kaku said over 200,000 people in the USA would have been poisoned by the Plutonium. Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years. Cassini had about 72 pounds of Plutonium-238. [b]Michio Kaku said NASA only had to wait two years, and could have powered Cassini with solar power.[/b] _____________________________ "Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will. [b]Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way.[/b] " http://www.thelightside.org/EARSite/library_changetheworld.html _____________________________ :bump: [/quote]
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NASA's Plutonium filled Cassini had 1/20 chance of blowing up in Earth's atmosphere.
Michio Kaku said over 200,000 people in the USA
would have been poisoned by the Plutonium.
Plutonium-238 has a half-life of 88 years.
Cassini had about 72 pounds of Plutonium-238.
Michio Kaku said NASA only had to wait two years, and could have powered Cassini with solar power.
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"Until recently, mankind lived a satisfying control of its decisions. But it is losing more and more the control of its own fate because of the growing use of advanced technologies, which lethal consequences on the earthly and human ecosystems become irreversible. You are slowly but surely losing your extraordinary capacity to make life desirable. Your resilience will artificially decrease, independently of your own will.
Such technologies exist that affect your body as well as your mind. Such plans are on their way.
"
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link to www.thelightside.org
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