It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
So Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich didn't write the Space Preservation Act?
The Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin and Alfred Webre, initiated the Treaty.
Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by PageAlaCearl
I do state what I believe and what sources I have to support my belief.
Why should I not respond when someone responds to what I state? Isn't that what discussion is all about (or argument, if you like)?
Why should I not respond when someone posts more incorrect information? Should I just let that incorrect information just stand? That isn't what the motto of ATS is about.
Originally posted by Phage
Proof of chemtrails, there ya go! So awesome now there is solid proof they are spraying stuff in the atmosphere and what goes up comes down on the people
Not exactly the atmosphere. More like the edge of space.
en.wikipedia.org...
In any case, as seen in the video, the small amount of aluminum oxide which is produced will travel over the Atlantic ocean. At an altitude of 60 miles it will be widely dispersed by the winds it passes through as it descends. You know that aluminum oxide is one of the most common compounds found naturally, right?edit on 3/13/2012 by Phage because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by smurfy
Even in the magnetosphere the nasty stuff can get blasted back to Earth, and dispersal only means that it goes somewhere. It's also the argument, (not really) that the finer a powder form, as is the unstable aluminium used here can reach body tissue in all parts of the body. Why, in this 'stupid' experiment do they have to add to the exposure. I looked at this aluminium and other fine particle issues before, and exposure levels are calculations in most studies, often in a very singular way. Mostly they only take into account the levels and sources that they are aware of, and while some of the studies do have a level of toxicity, like in brain tissue, eye tissue and muscle tissue, if there is stuff going on that they are not aware of, or if something goes on post studies, then that makes those studies moot, at the very least.
Originally posted by ProudBird
reply to post by smurfy
Drink a beer (or soft drink) from an aluminum can. Put your lips on it. Yeah, I know.....the aluminum that makes up that can has a process, a film on it....to prevent the corrosion that occurs when bare aluminum reacts with oxygen in the air.
Still....think about how thin that "protective" film is. Crush the can in your hand (ever done that?)
Touch some aluminum foil....crush it in your hand (ever done that??).
Heat up some food in an aluminum pan, on the stove top (ever done that??).
You have been exposed to MORE aluminum in your lifetime, just from living in this modern era, than you will get from the paltry amounts lofted by those NASA rockets......edit on Tue 13 March 2012 by ProudBird because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Uncinus
Originally posted by smurfy
Even in the magnetosphere the nasty stuff can get blasted back to Earth, and dispersal only means that it goes somewhere. It's also the argument, (not really) that the finer a powder form, as is the unstable aluminium used here can reach body tissue in all parts of the body. Why, in this 'stupid' experiment do they have to add to the exposure. I looked at this aluminium and other fine particle issues before, and exposure levels are calculations in most studies, often in a very singular way. Mostly they only take into account the levels and sources that they are aware of, and while some of the studies do have a level of toxicity, like in brain tissue, eye tissue and muscle tissue, if there is stuff going on that they are not aware of, or if something goes on post studies, then that makes those studies moot, at the very least.
TMA burns when exposed to air. What will (eventually) return to the ground is inert aluminum oxide. Millions of tons of this exists in the atmosphere already. Most in fine particulate form.
Wednesday, March 07, 2012 ATREX Studies Earth's Ultra-High Super Wind: 5 rockets to launch from Wallops Island High in the sky, 60 to 65 miles above Earth's surface, winds rush through a little understood region of Earth's atmosphere at speeds of 200 to 300 miles per hour. Lower than a typical satellite's orbit, higher than where most planes fly, this upper atmosphere jet stream makes a perfect target for a particular kind of scientific experiment: the sounding rocket. Some 35 to 40 feet long, sounding rockets shoot up into the sky for short journeys of eight to ten minutes, allowing scientists to probe difficult-to-reach layers of the atmosphere.
Originally posted by smurfy
Originally posted by Uncinus
TMA burns when exposed to air. What will (eventually) return to the ground is inert aluminum oxide. Millions of tons of this exists in the atmosphere already. Most in fine particulate form.
Inert AO mostly in fine particulate form??, that is exactly the form I do not wish to encounter, or most any fine particulate for that matter.
Applications
The great majority of alumina is consumed for the production of aluminium, usually by the Hall process. [edit]
As a filler Being fairly chemically inert and white, alumina is a favored filler for plastics.
Alumina is a common ingredient in sunscreen and is sometimes present in cosmetics such as blush, lipstick, and nail polish. [edit]
As a catalyst and catalyst support Alumina catalyses a variety of reactions that are useful industrially.
In its largest scale application, alumina is the catalyst in the Claus process for converting hydrogen sulfide waste gases into elemental sulfur in refineries.
It is also useful for dehydration of alcohols to alkenes.
Alumina serves as a catalyst support for many industrial catalysts, such as those used in hydrodesulfurization and some Ziegler-Natta polymerizations.
Zeolites are produced from alumina. [edit]
Gas purification and related absorption applications
Alumina is widely used to remove water from gas streams.
Other major applications are described below.[12] [edit]
As an abrasive Aluminium oxide is used for its hardness and strength.
It is widely used as an abrasive, including as a much less expensive substitute for industrial diamond.
Many types of sandpaper use aluminium oxide crystals.
In addition, its low heat retention and low specific heat make it widely used in grinding operations, particularly cutoff tools.
As the powdery abrasive mineral aloxite, it is a major component, along with silica, of the cue tip "chalk" used in billiards.
Aluminium oxide powder is used in some CD/DVD polishing and scratch-repair kits.
Its polishing qualities are also behind its use in toothpaste.
Alumina can be grown as a coating on aluminium by anodising or by plasma electrolytic oxidation (see the "Properties" above).
Both its strength and abrasive characteristics originate from the high hardness (9 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness) of aluminium oxide.
Alumina output in 2005 [edit]
As an effect pigment
Aluminium oxide flakes are base material for effect pigments. These pigments are widely used for decorative applications e.g. in the automotive or cosmetic industry. See main article Alumina effect pigment. [edit]
Niche applications and research themes In lighting, transparent alumina is used in some sodium vapor lamps.[13]
Aluminium oxide is also used in preparation of coating suspensions in compact fluorescent lamps.
In chemistry laboratories, alumina is a medium for chromatography, available in basic (pH 9.5), acidic (pH 4.5 when in water) and neutral formulations.
Health and medical applications include it as a material in hip replacements.[4]
As well, it is used as a dosimeter for radiation protection and therapy applications for its optically stimulated luminescence properties.
Aluminium oxide is an electrical insulator used as a substrate (Silicon_on_sapphire) for integrated circuits but also as quantum tunneling barrier films for the fabrication of superconducting devices such as single electron transistors and superconducting quantum interference (SQUID) devices.
Insulation for high-temperature furnaces is often manufactured from aluminium oxide. Sometimes the insulation has varying percentages of silica depending on the temperature rating of the material.
The insulation can be made in blanket, board, brick and loose fiber forms for various application requirements. Small pieces of alumina are often used as boiling chips in chemistry.
It is also used to make spark plug insulators.
Using a plasma spray process and mixed with titania, it is coated onto the braking surface of some aluminum bicycle rims to provide abrasion and wear resistance
Originally posted by tsurfer2000h
Seems to me a 35 to 40 foot rocket isn't carrying a very large payload ...