US Government Plans To Use 747 To Clean Cities After Attacks

I don’t know about you, but this makes me nervous: US government agencies are now looking at the possibility of using the impressive Boeing 747-100 Supertanker for dirty radioactive and biological bombing clean-up. In fact, it’s already being tested.

We’re doing some testing on cloud knockdown, sort of a Chernobyl-type [1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant's reactor meltdown, which resulted in a big radioactive billow that reached Northern Europe]event.

That’s what Sam White, Evergreen senior VP, says about their Supertanker. Hopefully we will never see in action for this purpose, and it will remain fighting forest fires. Meanwhile, Darpa is testing absorbent gels—like the ones used in nappies—mixed with nanoscale materials designed to clean away contaminants. In theory, these new substances will be able to take out 98 per cent of the radioactive particles in half an hour.

That’s good news.

The bad news: They have only tested it in concrete, not humans.

[Technology via Flightglobal]

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    cleverclogs

    Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    My God those planes are beautiful.

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    Bennish

    Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM

    For super efficiency: equip this on the jet that actually DROPS a nuke, so it can clean as-it-goes, thus clearing up the land for occupation.

    Mmmm…. cold…. so very cold.

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    Dr. Bernard Eastlund

    Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM

    Why not. Spraying of barium to control the albedo has already been going on in our atmosphere for the last 10 years. Here over Australia, USA, and Europe. Sure there’s alot of kooky stuff on the ‘net about this, but dig deep enough and there’s enough objective research done independently to show that dispersal of chemicals like this has been going on without public approval. Be interesting to hear Peter Garret’s comment on this, as the minister for the environment!

    Somewhat object approach to ‘chemtrail’ phenomena [ interesting read ]
    http://allaircraftarenotinvolved.freeforums.org/yes-we-are-being-sprayed-t175.html

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