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Proposition One wrote:
>
> Varactacap,
>
> Tell you what, buddy. If you figure out how to get it up to space
> without potential for accident, and the gamble has been removed, I'd
> agree with you that
>
> >If there's one good justifiable use for nuclear energy, it's to
> explore deep
> > space.
>
> But you (varactacap@aol.com) say,
>
> >Based on what I've found out so far, there's about a one in a million
> chance of
> > 1500 people suffering as a result of the Cassini mission. I'm
> willing to fly
> > in an airliner, which has about the same chance of crashing into a
> populated
> > area.
>
> There are a couple of points I want to make here. First, are you aware
> that the government lies to you? Check out our website
> http://prop1.org and go to "Current Events" then "Cassini" to see what
> some of the alternative viewpoints are by very reputable scientists.
> Or I'll forward some of their messages to you, if need be.
>
> Second, if you were impressed by the NASA scientists bringing their
> children to the launch site to prove how safe Cassini was, I had a
> good friend, who died last year from cancer of the face, whose father
> used to work at Hanford Nuclear plant in Washington, who used her as a
> guinea pig for his radiation experiments. SOME parents are crazy.
>
> In closure, you have the right to gamble with your own life, but for
> God's and kids' sakes, leave the rest of us alone. An airliner crash
> is bad enough. An explosion of plutonium 238 could be a disaster of
> unthinkable horror, which is why most people are utilizing that little
> "shut it out" door in their minds and leaving it all up to the
> government.
>
> Which gets us back to #1. Are you aware that "the government" lies?
> You've probably read recently about the scientists who did
> radiological experiments on mentally ill, on veterans? (Using the
> military as guinea pigs is a long-time practice: Vietnam's Agent
> Orange, Bikini's Atomic veterans, the Persian Gulf innoculations
> against rumored Iraqi weapons which may have something to do with Gulf
> War Syndrome.) Scientists were right in there with their pokes and
> prods and instruments after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after Bikini (the
> native islanders were seriously exposed and had jellyfish babies, hair
> fallout, etc). No doubt they've been poking around Three Mile Island,
> too. To some scientists, disaster is an opportunity to learn something
> new. I understand the sentiment. It's just that I dislike intensely
> the cold-blooded way in which they explore new things without real
> understanding of what the consequences could be, or deciding that
> "1,500 deaths" would be acceptable, whereas "1,000 deaths" would be
> unacceptable. Are they willing to be among the "1,500"? Who are they
> to play gods?
>
> You can see I feel strongly on this subject, but I feel this way
> because I study, read, listen, ask questions, dig deep. I'm in the
> process of trying to bring all the facts I can lay my hands on up onto
> the web so everyone can begin to see a clearer picture. I hope the
> folks who live in the Midwest who have just learned this year that
> they were irradiated in the '60's by fallout from nuclear tests
> blowing east, the ones who have had unexplained thyroid cancer, or
> chronic ailments, in a previously healthy family, will find the
> information useful. I hope you will find it intriguing enough to be
> skeptical about "what I've found out so far" when your source of
> information is the mainstream press (which did a better job with
> Cassini than it usually does in reporting facts, but which kept
> inserting the opinion "it's okay" in key psychological places).
> Fortunately we have the internet to keep us informed.
>
> Please, go to http://prop1.org and click "Current Events," then
> "Cassini," to get more on this space launch. Go to "Nuclear" then
> "Accidents and Safety" then "Let the Facts Speak" for a list of 1,054
> known nuclear accidents since 1945. If you can disprove any of this
> stuff, please try. We'll share your information, too.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ellen Thomas
>
> Proposition One Committee
> Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil
> PO Box 27217, Washington DC 20038 USA
> 202-462-0757 -- prop1@prop1.org -- http://prop1.org
> (Check http://prop1.org -- Current Events!)