Author Topic: Boeing Using D-Uranium for c/weight? (Read 434 times)

BGBMAW · « **on:** May 16, 2006, 09:12:04 PM »

IS this true that Boeing used Depleated Uranium for counter weights in tail of jets?

Chairboy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:21:14 PM »

It's to keep eco-terrorists from shooting 'em down.

I think they used to use it in the 747, but now use tungsten instead.

BGBMAW · « **Reply #2 on:** May 16, 2006, 09:37:09 PM »

theory of Gov givn Boeing breaks if it used there DU stockpiles...

this contributed to the advance of illnesses from the WT Centers rescue workers ..

I wonder if they tested DU levels around that area

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:28:51 PM »

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Originally posted by BGBMAW
theory of Gov givn Boeing breaks if it used there DU stockpiles...

this contributed to the advance of illnesses from the WT Centers rescue workers ..

I wonder if they tested DU levels around that area

I think the biggest contributer to the WTC rescue/clean up workers is all the asbestos and the thousands (litterally) of other nasty substances they inhaled while working there. I'm sure your garden varity dust from the site probably carries at least 50 known substances by the state of California that cause cancer.

Brenjen · « **Reply #4 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:30:30 PM »

Concrete dust alone will do it.

Tarmac · « **Reply #5 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:32:28 PM »

There's a ton of crap that you don't want to inhale when a building catches fire. There's a bunch more that you don't want to inhale when one collapses. The WTC did both.

BGBMAW · « **Reply #6 on:** May 16, 2006, 10:55:35 PM »

almost everything in Cali is stamped with.."known to cause cancer"

its great

Chairboy · « **Reply #7 on:** May 16, 2006, 11:17:20 PM »

The above message contains characters known to cause cancer in the state of California.

Tarmac · « **Reply #8 on:** May 16, 2006, 11:46:04 PM »

I did a report on Red Dye #3 in high school -- the one that was pulled for causing cancer. The lab rats that developed tumors had been injected with something like 400 times their own body weight of the dye over their lifetimes... no **** that'll mess them up.

Sparks · « **Reply #9 on:** May 17, 2006, 01:07:44 AM »

The use of DU for control surface balance weights is not uncommon (things like aileron and elevator balance weights). It's better than lead because of limited space .

Here is a link giving an idea of the scale.

mora · « **Reply #10 on:** May 17, 2006, 01:51:24 AM »

I highly doubt the DU would have blown to dust on impact. If it's in larger pieces it's not a hazard to health.

Debonair · « **Reply #11 on:** May 17, 2006, 02:17:31 AM »

except for the one-in-a-million dude that swallowed a flying chunk of uranium
omfg!!
pwnd!!!1
lmao that bad luck rofl

rabbidrabbit · « **Reply #12 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:02:22 AM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
The above message contains characters known to cause cancer in the state of California.

Damn good thing I don't live in California! That place is full of dangers!

BGBMAW · « **Reply #13 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:10:17 AM »

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".3 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 4, 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." 5

so the tempratures in the TW center was defntly hot enuff...

wonder how much DU they put in 757's

LePaul · « **Reply #14 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:33:58 AM »

Oh man, Id just read an article a few weeks ago where new furniture...the plastics, the materials...even the new car smell...is "bad' for you now. Based on the fumes of the materials.

So, again, it seems everything is bad for you.