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Launch madness will hit the east coast in March as NASA launches five rockets in approximately five minutes to study the high-altitude jet stream from its Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.....The five rockets will release a chemical tracer that will form milky, white tracer clouds that allow scientists and the public to "see" the winds in space...
Four trimethyl aluminum (TMA) trails from a prior mission flown from Poker Flat, Alaska, in February 2009. Credit: Miguel Larsen/Clemson Univ.
Harmful if inhaled or swallowed. May cause eye, skin, and respiratory tract burns. Reacts violently with water or atmospheric moisture. Decomposes into irritating dust that may cause liver and kidney damage. Self-contained breathing apparatus and protective clothing must be worn by rescue workers.
Aluminum poisoning can lead to short and long term central nervous system (CNS) damage, such as memory impairments, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, and dementia.
Research shows that just 4ppm of aluminum can cause the blood to coagulate. This is what causes Alzheimer's Disease and has been documented to inhibit learning. Aluminum consumption can also be associated with the development of bone disorders, including stress fractures.
Originally posted by Aquarist
And we all know how toxic aluminum can be, even without the MSDS sheet:
Natural News
Aluminum poisoning can lead to short and long term central nervous system (CNS) damage, such as memory impairments, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, and dementia.
Research shows that just 4ppm of aluminum can cause the blood to coagulate. This is what causes Alzheimer's Disease and has been documented to inhibit learning. Aluminum consumption can also be associated with the development of bone disorders, including stress fractures.
That link covers more than aluminum, but I think you can get the picture
The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) is a Heliophysics sounding rocket mission that will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.
Originally posted by Aquarist
I'm a skeptic of chemtrails,
Originally posted by Aquarist
And we all know how toxic aluminum can be, even without the MSDS sheet:
The use of TMA is harmless
Very hazardous in case of skin contact (irritant), of eye contact (irritant). Hazardous in case of skin contact (permeator),
of ingestion, of inhalation. Inflammation of the eye is characterized by redness, watering, and itching. Skin inflammation is
characterized by itching, scaling, reddening, or, occasionally, blistering.
Material is destructive to tissue of the mucous membranes and upper respiratory tract.
I'm surprised we're not all dead with that layer of sodium above us poisoning the atmosphere.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Yeah - utterly unsupported conclusions about what causes alzheimers stands out immediately.
the fact is that aluminium is not particularly toxic at all - and does nto actually exist in elemental form in an oxygen atmosphere - it almost instantly oxidises to Aluminium Oxide (Al2O3) which is one of het most inert substances around.
Results showed that Al is associated to several neurophysiologic processes that are responsible for the characteristic degeneration of AD. In spite of existing polemics all over the world about the role of Al as a risk factor for AD, in recent years, scientific evidence has demonstrated that Al is associated with the development of AD.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
So how much of hazard to you really think some hundreds of pounds of this stuff is really going to be at 200k+ feet in the air??
And why do you think it is in any way related to "chemtrails" - or is it just thatit is a trail of chemicals?
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
After rereading what you posted I don't think this is true at all.
Originally posted by Uncinus
Yes, super toxic stuff. It's about as toxic as wood.
Originally posted by Uncinus
The use of TMA is harmless, as it burns in contact with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, aluminum oxide, and water.
Originally posted by Aquarist
Originally posted by Uncinus
The use of TMA is harmless, as it burns in contact with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, aluminum oxide, and water.
Could you please cite a source for this info? I haven't seen anything about that as of yet, but please enlighten me.
Trimethylaluminium is the chemical compound with the formula Al2(CH3)6, abbreviated as Al2Me6, (AlMe3)2 or the abbreviation TMA. This pyrophoric, colorless liquid is an industrially important organoaluminium compound. It evolves white smoke (aluminium oxides) when the vapor is released into the air.
A pyrophoric substance (from Greek πυροφορος, purophoros, "fire-bearing") is a substance that will ignite spontaneously in air.
NASA has used TMA for decades as part of rocket studies from sites worldwide to study the near-space environment. TMA burns slowly and produces visible light that can be tracked visually and with special camera equipment.
The products of the reaction when TMA is exposed to air or water are aluminum oxide, carbon dioxide and water vapor.
It clearly shows, that whatever is up at that level does not come down to affect us on the ground.
The NASA experiment, with their payload of aluminium that will be dispersed in the same region of space will in no way affect us down here, at all.
The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) is a Heliophysics sounding rocket mission that will gather information needed to better understand the process responsible for the high-altitude jet stream located 60 to 65 miles above the surface of the Earth.
The high-altitude jet stream is higher than the one commonly reported in weather forecasts. The winds found in this upper jet stream typically have speeds of 200 to well over 300 mph and create rapid transport from the Earth's mid latitudes to the polar regions. This jet stream is located in the same region where strong electrical currents occur in the ionosphere. It is therefore a region with a lot of electrical turbulence, of the type that can adversely affect satellite and radio communications.
Above the mesosphere the thermosphere extends up to near 375 miles (600 km) above the earth. This layer is known as the upper atmosphere.
the temperature increases with height and can reach as high as 3,600°F (2,000°C) near the top of this layer; however, despite the high temperature, this layer of the atmosphere would still feel very cold to our skin because of the extremely thin air.
In the thermosphere and above, gas particles collide so infrequently that the gases become somewhat separated based on the types of chemical elements they contain.
In this way he discovered that the thermospheric collapse of 2008-2009 was not only bigger than any previous collapse, but also bigger than the sun alone could explain.
trends in global climate could alter the composition of the thermosphere, changing its thermal properties and the way it responds to external stimuli.
This suggests that during the last 3±4 decades the thermal structure in the real upper atmosphere has undergone substantial changes driven by forcing comparable with that due to doubling of CO2.
What else would you like NASA and all the other high level scientists to do to study their associated fields?
So lets just sit on our asses while a very little known part of our atmosphere changes over the last 40 years.