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Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by scottie18
There is a video proving your missile smoke theory wrong.
I see no information along with the video that states the missile smoke theory is wrong.
I still do not see any sources for the photos others have posted.
[edit on 3-6-2008 by ULTIMA1]
Originally posted by HLR53K
So you and I at least agree on one thing here. If there was radiation picked up, why is it being attributed to DU? .
Originally posted by sos37
Lets say the missile theory is true. How do we know that the missile(s) had to have been fired by members of our military or government? Why couldn't it have been terrorists also, trying to ensure that the WTC buildings came down?
How do we know that if explosives were in fact planted that our government was responsible and not the same terrorist faction that piloted the planes?
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Just like why are they blaming radiaton on DU from the planes that the planes that were supposed to have been used do not even carry?
there are rumours the walls of the Pentagon are made radiation-proof with reinforced concrete mixed with depleted uranium particles to keep the radiation out in case of a nuclear attack/accident.
Originally posted by _Del_
Do you have an actual source or report for the presence of DU at the sites and its origin?
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Well for 1 if you read my post i am not trying to prove the presence of DU at the sites.
I am trying to figure out why DU from the planes was blamed for the radiation when the 757 and 767 do not carry DU.
Older planes such as the first 747s carried a large amount of DU. But Boeing stopped ussing DU and replaced it with Tungsten in newer planes.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Originally posted by _Del_
Do you have an actual source or report for the presence of DU at the sites and its origin?
Well for 1 if you read my post i am not trying to prove the presence of DU at the sites.
I am trying to figure out why DU from the planes was blamed for the radiation when the 757 and 767 do not carry DU.
Older planes such as the first 747s carried a large amount of DU. But Boeing stopped ussing DU and replaced it with Tungsten in newer planes.
Originally posted by HLR53K
That really is a good question. I'm kind of surprised myself that airplanes would carry DU as trim weights, considering their toxicity if the airplane crashed. I really wonder why the engineers didn't just go with tungsten since the beginning.
On October 4, 1992, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft crashed in the Bijlmer suburb of Amsterdam. The aircraft was carrying 75 tons of kerosene and more than 10 tons of various chemicals, including flammable liquids and gases. The Boeing 747 was also carrying a ballast load consisting of up to 1500 kg of depleted uranium contained in its tailcone in addition to DU ballast in its tail rudder and the wings, according to Paul Loewenstein, technical director and vice-president of the Nuclear Metals, Inc., the supplier of DU to Boeing. It has been confirmed by Boeing that the first 550 Boeing 747 aircraft constructed use depleted uranium as ballast. However, according to the Boeing, the aircraft that crashed in Amsterdam was carrying less than 400 kg of DU, as some of the standard DU ballast was replaced with tungsten.
Dr. Loewenstein mentions that "large pieces of uranium oxidize rapidly in a long-lasting fire whenever they are heated in the air to a temperature of about 500 C". A report by the Amsterdam-based Laka Foundation, Documentation and Research Center on Nuclear Energy, informs: "The great danger from this chemical reaction is that the escaping cloud of dust with thousands of microparticles of uranium oxide can be inhaled or swallowed by bystanders. The American physicist Robert L. Parker wrote in Nature , in a worst-case scenario involving the crash of a Boeing 747, that about 250,000 people would run health risks (or near-poisoning) as a result of inhalation or swallowing of uranium oxide particles. Parker's conclusion assumed the presence of 450 kilos of DU in a Boeing 747. He says: "Extended tests by the American Navy and NASA showed that the temperature of the fireball in a plane crash can reach 1200 C. Such temperatures are high enough to cause very rapid oxidation of depleted uranium."
A lengthy period of research and investigation following the 1992 clash of the Boeing 747 in Amsterdam produced various reports confirming serious health risks posed by depleted uranium. "The most interesting one in this particular case is probably the report "Health risks during exposure of uranium", made by radiation expert Leonard A. Hennen from the Dutch Ministry of Defense... The author is very thorough about the radiotoxic nature of DU in the human body. The findings of Hennen strongly contradicts the findings in the final DU report of Zuidoost. He said that the people at a possible crash site are running risks. In his report (chapter 5, p.9) he proposes the taking of urine samples and "in vivo" measurements when there is suspicion of internal contamination of the DU."
Originally posted by _Del_
Do you have an actual source or report for the presence of DU at the sites and its origin?
Originally posted by HLR53K
Here I am agreeing with you that it is odd that anyone (if they did) attributed any radioactivity to DU and you still take it as an attack. I did my own research and now know that DU was used in upwards of 1,400 kg as trim weights, so I never did disagree that DU was not used in aircraft. It's just a practice that I didn't know.
Originally posted by ULTIMA1
Well i was under the impression you were a pilot when we were talking about the landing gear.
Well i believe its 1 reason the EPA asked NASA to overfly the site with the AVRIS.