Cassini - A Star Wars Disaster
On October 6th NASA is planning to exploit its position within the world’s major superpower, and place the rest of the planet at a huge risk.
Cassini, a space probe, will be launched into space with 73 pounds of deadly plutonium on board. Just one pound of plutonium, could hypothetically induce lung cancer in every person on earth.
NASA’s latest scientific experiment which is being imposed on everyone else on earth has the potential to be a huge disaster, and even NASA’s own research indicates that an accident could result in the most toxic chemical known to science, showering down onto earth.
NASA insists the chances of an accident occurring are miniscule, estimating the likelihood that the rocket would explode on launch and release plutonium into the air as 1 in 1500. A fire was reported in the rocket in the beginning of August.
What are the risks?
The Cassini probe will be launched on the same kind of rocket that exploded over the Pacific in 1993.
Because Cassini’s propulsion source doesn’t have enough power to send it straight to Saturn, a gravity assist manoeuvre or sling shot manoeuvre will be used. This means sending the unstaffed probe and its lethal load plummeting straight back to within about 400 miles of the earth’s surface before using the earth’s gravity to deflect it and power it further. This is an operation fraught with technical difficulties.
Since the 1960’s the US has launched 24 devices carrying nuclear material into space. 3 have crashed. Not a particularly good success rate.
The radioactive thermonuclear generators (RTG’s) used to house the plutonium on board, are only tested using estimated figures and as Alan Kohn, former emergency preparedness operations officer at NASA puts it, it is indestructible like the Titanic was unsinkable.
Why are NASA subjecting the planet to such dangers?
The plutonium is not necessary. It is not being used as fuel for propulsion but merely to provide electricity for the scientific instruments on board, and experts insist this could be provided by solar energy.
“There is a hidden agenda” say campaigners from Citizens for Peace in Space. “The civilian space mission is being used as a stalking horse for large scale military plans to use plutonium for space platforms and weapons. As the one superpower left on earth now, the US now has its sights on complete supremacy in space”.
Between now and 2009, NASA plans to launch many more plutonium missions, including 2 nuclear reactors for mining colonies on Mars in 2007!!
Profit Before planet??
NASA and the nuclear industry view outer space as a new market “untold riches” await mining colonies on other planets. In the US space command document ‘Vision for 2020’ they state that space forces will emerge to protect military and commercial interests and investments in the space medium. "There will be a critical need to control space to ensure US dominance”
The arms race is moving into space. And the new star wars will be nuclear. Missions like Cassini keep the nuclear laboratories in the US working at full speed and get the public and the media accustomed to the use of nuclear materials in space. It begs the question of whether NIREX will now be looking to use space as a possible nuclear waste dump, as permission is refused for various sites in this country.
They are committing the lie, the sin of omission, in not telling you the whole truth. They figure if they keep it quiet and just pacify everyone, they can get away with everything they want to do. And they have gotten away with everything they wanted to do up until now. It is time to put a stop to their freedom to threaten the lives of the people here on the Earth. I don't know how they can do this. I don't know what in a democracy they think gives them the right to do a thing like this. They have no such right.” (Alan Kohn, former emergency operations officer at NASA)
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