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Media hype over Mars rover ignores deadly truth – Independent Australia
Media coverage of the Perseverance rover mission fails to report that NASA projected fair odds of lethal plutonium being released by accident.
Media coverage of the Perseverance rover mission fails to report that NASA projected fair odds of lethal plutonium being released by accident, writes Karl Grossman.
WITH ALL the media hoopla last week about the Perseverance rover, frequently unreported was that its energy source is plutonium – considered the most lethal of all radioactive substances – and nowhere in media that National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projected one-in-960 odds of the plutonium being released in an accident…
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