This is a little "different" than his usual rants (although related). I'm interested in your responses to this (particularly ex-military)September 18, 2003
From www.kunstler.com
The following is from a shy friend without a website who wishes to remain anonymous. While his point-of-view is not identical to mine, his analysis is interesting. For example, I do not know enough about depleted uranium to have a firm opinion about it, but his theory is intriguing, especially in light of the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome that left so many US soldiers sick and disabled in the 1990s. Depleted uranium is used in bullets and artillary rounds because its super-hardness enables it to penetrate armored vehicles. Tremendous amounts of the stuff were expended in the recent war, now scattered all over Iraq (and Afghanistan) in the form of radioactive dust. These dust particles have been blamed for an unusual rise of lung illnesses in US troops lately.
The DU clock is ticking in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Already the "mystery illness" attrition rate exceeds the killed in action toll by a factor of 15. To be sure, DU is an equal opportunity health hazard and it will thus diminish the ardor of partisans as well. They, too, will get too sick to do much. America's next problem in Iraq and Afghanistan will be mutiny by panicking troops. When the malaise reaches ten percent, Washington will realize that withdrawal is the only option. And since rebuilding Iraq is not do-able either economically or physically, an entropy-riddled corpse of a nation will be left to its own devices.
Moslems will respond by refusing to sell oil either to Europe or America, since both crusader and Yank left a legacy of violence, greed, and predatory deceit.
The net effect of the two Bush administrations: to make China a gift of 95 percent of the world's exportable oil by 2010. Also, all those industries outsourced to China created a skilled labor pool while at the same time degrading the ability of America's labor pool to produce tangibles. The greed of America's overclass thus was demonstrably at variance with the common good of American citizens. This dissonance will necessarily result in the circulation of elites as America plunges into insolvency and disorder.
From www.kunstler.com
The following is from a shy friend without a website who wishes to remain anonymous. While his point-of-view is not identical to mine, his analysis is interesting. For example, I do not know enough about depleted uranium to have a firm opinion about it, but his theory is intriguing, especially in light of the mysterious Gulf War Syndrome that left so many US soldiers sick and disabled in the 1990s. Depleted uranium is used in bullets and artillary rounds because its super-hardness enables it to penetrate armored vehicles. Tremendous amounts of the stuff were expended in the recent war, now scattered all over Iraq (and Afghanistan) in the form of radioactive dust. These dust particles have been blamed for an unusual rise of lung illnesses in US troops lately.
The DU clock is ticking in both Afghanistan and Iraq. Already the "mystery illness" attrition rate exceeds the killed in action toll by a factor of 15. To be sure, DU is an equal opportunity health hazard and it will thus diminish the ardor of partisans as well. They, too, will get too sick to do much. America's next problem in Iraq and Afghanistan will be mutiny by panicking troops. When the malaise reaches ten percent, Washington will realize that withdrawal is the only option. And since rebuilding Iraq is not do-able either economically or physically, an entropy-riddled corpse of a nation will be left to its own devices.
Moslems will respond by refusing to sell oil either to Europe or America, since both crusader and Yank left a legacy of violence, greed, and predatory deceit.
The net effect of the two Bush administrations: to make China a gift of 95 percent of the world's exportable oil by 2010. Also, all those industries outsourced to China created a skilled labor pool while at the same time degrading the ability of America's labor pool to produce tangibles. The greed of America's overclass thus was demonstrably at variance with the common good of American citizens. This dissonance will necessarily result in the circulation of elites as America plunges into insolvency and disorder.
I'll cede to you that U238 isn't hard. I inferred that because I remember a discussion of Tungsten as a non-radioactive replacement. It noted that Tungsten was very hard, but that may have just been an ancillary benefit. I'll also cede to your experience, I'm just going off of a news report that I read about the study. I would like to know how close you were to impact and if you were there at the time of impact and if not how soon afterwards?
