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NASA's own odds now state a 1 in 345 probability for Plutonium to be released
on the Cassini Mission.
If there's only one action you can do, make it this one.
Mention Stop Cassini To The Operator
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(This is the actual letter Western Union will hand deliver to the White House)
Dear President William Jefferson Clinton,
At 4:45 AM EDT on Monday, October 13,
1997, from launch complex # 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Station, a spacecraft
called Cassini is scheduled to liftoff. On board Cassini will be 72.3 pounds
of the deadliest substance known, Plutonium (Pu). This is, by far, the most
Pu ever attempted to be launched in a space mission. Inhaling less than 27
millionths of a gram of Pu will give you lung cancer and also causes long
term genetic damage. NASA's own odds now state there is a 1 in 345 probability
for a release of Pu on this mission. NASA's original estimate for a Pu release
were 1 in 1500 , then 1 in 900, then it was 1 in 500, now it is 1 in
345. Tomorrow who knows? Remember what the late Noble prize winning
physicist Dr. Richard P. Feynman, a member of the Presidential Commission
that investigated the Challenger disaster said: "the NASA managers exaggerated
the reliability of the Shuttle to the point of fantasy. I saw considerable
flaws in their logic. I found that they were making up numbers not based
on experience. NASA's engineering judgment was not the judgment of its
engineers." There are 2.3 million people in the 6 county region surrounding
Cape Canaveral. If there is a failure on liftoff like the Challenger did
at T+ 73 seconds and the Pu is released, the prevailing winds in October
are blowing right back over all these people. Will NASA wait for the perfect
wind conditions, away from humans? A 1 in 345 gamble with the deadliest substance
known is too much, especially when there are a dozen more nuclear space missions
scheduled over the next 12 years. Sooner or late there will be a horrendous
catastrophe.
Please Mr. President, postpone Cassini so it can be redesigned
using the safe renewable alternative, a solar fuel cell design to generate
the modest 745 watts of electricity needed, instead of gambling with potentially
deadly Pu.
To send the above letter refer to phone number at top of this page. Mention to the operator "Stop Cassini" That's all!