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(OP) User ID: 90292 United States 05/06/2006 10:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | About the other question... NO I don't plan on going into the desert anytime soon. However, this may be a warning as to where a satellite may crash, I don't know. I feel that this dream was prophetic as far as warning us that satellites may come crashing down. It was also a warning letting me know that even if I feel that I'm ready as far as supplies go, if I don't have some packed up to go at a moments notice, then it won't do many any good if I have to leave them behind. "Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God" |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 84505 United States 05/06/2006 11:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | from q and a: "What does plutonium do on a satellite, and if it's so bad why don't satellite makers use something else?" [link to www.aiaa.org] [link to www.jpl.nasa.gov] It is very expensive both to build a satellite, and to get it up into space. In addition, once it is in space, it is difficult to repair or maintain it, so it is built to keep itself going for many years. In the case of a satellite that is sent away from the earth, it must be completely self-contained. If a satellite were just an inert chunk of whatever, it wouldn't matter. But a satellite is usually a collection of various instruments and equipment; which usually require electricity, and sometimes also require heat, to operate. How do satellites get electrical energy and heat? Sometimes they use solar panels. This can be a problem if the satellite accidently turns away from the sun, and then has no energy to turn back. If the satellite is being sent away from the sun, then solar panels would have to be so large that you couldn't even launch or manuever them. Batteries are very large and heavy, and because they are a chemical reaction, don't do as well when they get cold. Also, because they are a chemical reaction, they stop working fairly soon. There is a material which creates heat at a constant rate for at least 25 years, and then very slowly reduces its heat output over the next 50 years. It is an isotope of plutonium called plutonium-238. It has a half-life of 87 years, and is used both for generating electricity as well as heat. The following web site has information about a satellite that is going to Saturn, with details about the heat and electrical generators going aboard. [link to nis-www.lanl.gov] Now, don't start imagining that they just take chunks of plutonium and glue them into place in the satellite. Each pellet is encased in a durable and corrosion resistant metal shells. There are a number of pellets used, each one separately encased. These are designed to withstand accidental impacts as well as the heat of reentering the earth's atmosphere. It is almost eery to look at one of the larger pellets, because it glows red hot. There is a picture of one in the web page above. I am giving you another web page that describes some of the tests that were done on heat sources, to make sure they would not break open easily. [link to www.lanl.gov] "How would they clean it up? Would it wash onto any beaches and if it did would people be hurt by it?" [link to www-emtd.lanl.gov] Now, the question about plutonium in the ocean. To begin with, there is already plutonium in the general environment. There is some naturally occurring plutonium, but that amount is very small. The majority of plutonium in the environment is mainly a result of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons from the late 1940's to the early 1960's, with a small portion of that coming from the reprocessing of nuclear fuel and destruction of thermoelectric generators from satellites reentering the atmosphere. So what is this plutonium doing? Most of it is an oxide, that is, combined with oxygen. Once it falls to the earth, it tends to stay there. Plutonium is very heavy, much heavier than lead. It can be moved around by the wind, but because it is heavy, it tends to stay in one place and sink down into the soil. Running water can move it, but it stays solid because it is an insoluble solid. Actually, it dissolves in water about as fast as quartz glass does. So what happens in the ocean? It doesn't dissolve, and it is very heavy. It will tend to drop to the ocean floor and from there it will be buried very deep in the sediment. It could be stirred up by something cataclysmic, like an earthquake, but would have the tendency to fall back to the bottom again, and be buried again. So what are the dangers of having environmental plutonium around? One of the points made in the web page above is this: Let's mix one kilogram (which is an unreasonably large amount) of plutonium oxide in a city water supply. We have to assume that for some reason it doesn't just settle to the bottom. Remember, it dissolves about as well as quartz glass, and if you throw a kilogram of broken glass into water it just settles to the bottom. Now we have a person drink two liters of that water every day for seventy years. The increased risk of cancer death (that is, risk added to all other risks) is 0.01%, or 1 in 10,000. There is a much greater chance that a person will be injured or killed in a car accident just driving to and from school or work. And this is if you could get the kilogram to stay suspended in the water and not just settle to the bottom. The plutonium in satellites is in chunks that do not readily break apart. [link to www.madsci.org] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9570 United States 05/06/2006 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | More likely, your subconscious is telling you that you fear things which are outside of your control, such as unforeseen events. A randomly falling "bad" satellite that just happens to fall next to YOUR house, indicates fear of the future. IMHO |
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A couple of thoughts User ID: 62347 United States 05/06/2006 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Could also indicate that the comet knocks out a satellite at the same time as a nuclear weapon is detonated. In the dream you are fleeing while other people are going toward it. It could be 2 different events. Interesting that there is a huge missle test is set (Divine Strake) at the same time we will be going through comet dust/debris. (There is also the threat of war with Iran too) |
DreamSeeker
(OP) User ID: 90292 United States 05/06/2006 11:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | _________ As far as my dream being prophetic. Trust me when I say that I know when the Lord is speaking to me. This is definitely one of those warnings that He wants us to heed to! He reminded me about it as I was reading about the comet. I know that is was a warning! __________ You are right about the divine strake happening around the same time as the comet. It very well could have been Nevada. I was thinking that I was in Nevada or Arizona. "Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 62234 United States 05/07/2006 12:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | No, I think it's a prophetic dream. If you ever have one, you'll know. It's not at all unlikely for a satellite to come crashing down. NASA has lost a few so far, because of earth's magnetic's changing and now with this comet, the debris could knock'em down. |
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User ID: 88282 United Kingdom 05/07/2006 03:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | It would indeed be affected with radiation, i dont know the REM of that radiation, however it will ahve been subject to years of radiation pollution eminating from the suns solar activity, and the debris escaping the van allen belts For the lord is my shepherd I shall not want |
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