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I love how one of the most up voted answers boiled down to "the military" https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0/which_mystery_industry_i
by cf498 8y ago
I love how one of the most up voted answers boiled down to "the military"
https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0/which_mystery_industry_is_the_largest_buyer_of/ecbc3tn/ https://old.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/a8hrk0...
>defense department would be extremely secretive
>And they very much wouldn't care about the environmental impact
>A few hundred tons of glitter is significantly less bad than thousands of tons of agent orange and dioxin.
>And depleted uranium
- mjlee 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure) I guess it's possible chaff is made by Glitterex.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- coredog64 8y agoPSA: Depleted uranium is so-called because it has less radioactivity than the dangerous stuff (U-235). It's a toxic heavy metal, but it doesn't present any serious radioactivity danger.
- itronitron 8y agoyep, depleted uranium bars are used within helicopter blades to equalize the momentum along their length. it's a very heavy metal