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WATCH LIVE STREAM Video Launch-TODAY- of Mars Rover 'Curiosity' Here--10:02 AM EST
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"Don't Do Disney" NASA Readies Nuclear Launch for Plutonium fueled 'Curiosity'
I changed it for todays launch:
Well, looks like some environmentalists and anti-nuke protestors are concerned about this upcoming launch of NASA's latest rover--Curiosity. Just something to consider if you are concerned about this type of thing. Personally, I'm not, I'd still go to Disney:
NASA intends in coming weeks to launch a rover to be deployed on Mars fueled with 10.6 pounds of plutonium.
Opponents of the launch in Florida, concerned about an accident releasing deadly plutonium, such as the explosion of the rocket that’s to loft the rover, have created a Facebook page warning people not to visit Disney theme parks in Orlando during the November 25-to-December 15 launch window. “Don’t Do Disney brought to you by NASA,” the Facebook page is titled.
a launch accident discharging plutonium has a 1-in-420 chance of happening and could “release material into the regional area defined…to be within…62 miles of the launch pad,” That’s an area including Orlando.
A millionth of a gram of plutonium can be a fatal dose
particles “would continuously irradiate lung tissue.”
[link to www.commondreams.org]
NASA & the White House are about to take a chance—a very dangerous chance—with your lives Miamians.
If there’s an accident resulting in plutonium fallout which occurs above that and before the rocket breaks through Earth’s gravitational field, people could be affected anywhere between 28-degrees north and 28-degrees south latitude, says the EIS. That’s a band around the mid-section of the Earth which includes much of South America, Africa and Australia.’
Continue reading:
[link to www.examiner.com]
The following link has a cool action-animated video if you're interested in learning more of Curiosity:
[link to www.wired.co.uk]
We all know what curiosity did to the cat--Let's hope and pray it will be a good launch day for Curiosity!
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