"Let me get this straight...the dilithium crystals
are discharged and you want to fuel the ship with WHAT?"
Posted on 02/24/2005 12:26:21 PM PST by sure_fine
A toxic component of rocket fuel has been found in breast milk of women in 18 states and store-bought milk from various locations around the country.
The chemical, perchlorate, can impede adult metabolism and cause retardation in fetuses, among other things. It leaches into groundwater from various military facilities.
Previous studies have found perchlorate in drinking water, on lettuce, and in cows milk.
The new research, announced this week, suggests perchlorate is a bigger problem than thought, scientists said.
Texas Tech University researchers studied 36 samples of breast milk from women in 18 states and 47 samples cow's milk purchased from stores in 11 states. Every sample of breast milk contained perchlorate, as did all but one sample of dairy milk.
The highest levels were found in women from New Jersey, New Mexico, Missouri, Nebraska and California, in that order. The results are detailed in the online version of Environmental Science & Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society. The work was led by Texas Tech biochemist Purnendu Dasgupta.
"We've got to come to grips with the perchlorate situation quickly,'' said California Senator Dianne Feinstein in a statement. "And EPA has to move quickly to set a national drinking water standard that protects the health and safety of all Americans.''
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I'm still a big ole titty-baby!
Flamethrower alert.
"Let me get this straight...the dilithium crystals
are discharged and you want to fuel the ship with WHAT?"
The work was led by Texas Tech biochemist Purnendu Dasgupta.
I don't have any wise remarks about this story - I just wanted to say "Purnendu Dasgupta".
WHERE did you get that picture??? It's a scream! I can't stop laughing!
P.S. I'll bet you could do a really cool poem on this. I LOVE your poems. YOu should collect them all and publish them. : - )
Rocket fuel is not JET fuel. Jets burn JetA - basically Kerosene.
I stole it from another FReeper because I liked it so much.
LOL!
Isn't there a Freeper who advertises bullet bras in his tagline?
Hahaha!!!
I would like to if I could find a way that would not cost an arm and leg. We have sufficient land but not the cash.
It is supposed to be cheap. But i don't know the details. I think the US Dept of Interior manages the program.
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