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A space blanket
A space blanket (depending on the function, also known as a Mylar blanket, emergency blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket, weather blanket, heat sheet, or commonly referred to as shock blankets) is an especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective thin plastic sheeting. They are used on the exterior surfaces of spacecraft for thermal control, as well as by people. Their design reduces the heat loss in a person's body, which would otherwise occur due to thermal radiation, water evaporation, or convection. Their compact size before unfurling and light weight makes them ideal when space or weight are at a premium. They may be included in first aid kits and also in camping equipment. Lost campers and hikers have an additional possible benefit: the metallic surface appearance flashes in the sun, allowing use as an improvised distress beacon for searchers and also as a method of signalling over long distances to other people on the same route as the person who owns the blanket.

Contents
1 Manufacturing
2 Usage
3 See also
4 References
Manufacturing
First developed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964 for the US space program,[1][2] the material consists of a thin sheet of plastic (often PET film) that is coated with a metallic reflecting agent, making it metallized polyethylene terephthalate (MPET), usually gold or silver in colour, which reflects up to 97% of radiated heat.[3][4]

For use in space, polyimide (e.g. kapton, UPILEX) substrate is usually employed due to its resistance to the hostile space environment, large temperature range (cryogenic to −260 °C and for short excursions up to over 480 °C), low outgassing (making it suitable for vacuum use) and resistance to ultraviolet radiation. Aluminized kapton, with foil thickness of 50 and 125 µm, was used e.g. on the Apollo Lunar Module.[5] The polyimide gives the foils their distinctive amber-gold color.

Space blankets are made by vacuum-depositing a very precise amount of pure aluminum vapor onto a very thin, durable film substrate.

Usage
In their principal usage, space blankets are included in many emergency, first aid, and survival kits because they are usually waterproof and windproof. That, along with their low weight and ability to pack into a small space, has made them popular among outdoor enthusiasts and emergency workers. Space blankets are often given to marathoners and other endurance athletes at the end of races, or while waiting before races if the weather is chilly. The material may be used in conjunction with conductive insulation material and may be formed into a bag for use as a bivouac sack (survival bag).

In first aid, the blankets are used to prevent/counter hypothermia. A threefold action facilitates this:

The airtight foil reduces convection
Heat loss caused by evaporation of perspiration is reduced
To a limited extent the reflective surface inhibits losses caused by thermal radiation.
In a hot environment they can be used to provide shade or provide protection against radiated heat, but using them to wrap a person would be counterproductive, because body heat would get trapped by the airtight foil. This effect would exceed any benefit gained from heat reflection to the outside.

Space blankets are used to reduce heat loss from a person's body, but as they are constructed of PET film, they can be used for other applications for which this material is useful, such as insulating containers—e.g. for DIY solar projects—and other applications.

In addition to the space blanket, the United States military also uses a similar blanket called the "casualty blanket". It uses a thermal reflective layer similar to the space blanket, backed by an olive drab colored reinforcing outer layer. It provides greater durability and warmth than a basic space blanket at the cost of greater bulk and weight. It is also used as a partial liner inside the layers of bivouac sacks in very cold weather climates. Space blankets are also used by the Taliban to hide their heat signature from NATO forces.[6]
 
Legion said:
The American Red Cross had to step in and provide blankets when Obama was caging kids and ripping families apart, apparently.

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Apparently not. The kids that came during Obamas time did not come with their families. But not an unexpected response from you.
 
Nerdberg said:
And they did not have a policy of separating the few that did. It is Trumps policy though. It is cruel.
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So you say, Nerdberg. Jeh Johnson sang a different tune, didn't he?

Legion said:
Under the terms of a 1997 settlement in the case of Flores v. Meese, children who enter the country without their parents must be granted a “general policy favoring release” to the custody of relatives or a foster program.

When there is cause to detain a child, he or she must be housed in the least restrictive environment possible, kept away from unrelated adults and provided access to medical care, exercise and adequate education.

Whether these protections apply to children traveling with their parents has been a matter of dispute. The Flores settlement refers to “all minors who are detained” by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and its “agents, employees, contractors and/or successors in office.” When the I.N.S. dissolved into the Department of Homeland Security in 2003, its detention program shifted to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Federal judges have ruled that ICE is required to honor the Flores protections to all children in its custody.

The Obama administration reversed course. the administration abruptly announced plans to resume family detention.

From the beginning, officials were clear that the purpose of the new facility in Artesia was not so much to review asylum petitions as to process deportation orders.

“We have already added resources to expedite the removal, without a hearing before an immigration judge, of adults who come from these three countries without children,” Obamas' secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, told a Senate committee. “Then there are adults who brought their children with them. Again, our message to this group is simple: We will send you back.”

Elected officials in Artesia say that Johnson made a similar pledge during a visit to the detention camp. “He said, ‘As soon as we get them, we’ll ship them back,’ ” a city councilor from Artesia named Jose Luis Aguilar recalled. The mayor of the city, Phillip Burch, added, “His comment to us was that this would be a ‘rapid deportation process.’ Those were his exact words.”

But as word of the detention camp began to spread, volunteers like Christina Brown trickled into town. Many of the lawyers who came to Artesia were young mothers, and they saw in the detained children a resemblance to their own. By fall, roughly 200 volunteers were rotating through town in shifts: renting rooms in local motels, working 12-hour days to interview detainees and file asylum paperwork, then staying awake into the night to consult one another. Some volunteers returned to Artesia multiple times. A few spent more than a month there. Brown never moved back to Denver. She moved into a little yellow house by the detention facility, took up office space in a local church and, with help from a nonprofit group called the American Immigration Lawyers Association, or AILA, she began to organize the volunteers pouring in.

As Brown got to know detainees in Artesia, grim patterns emerged from their stories. One was the constant threat of gangs; another was the prevalence of sexual violence.

Within a year, the administration faced a lawsuit. Legal filings described young children forced to wear prison jumpsuits, to live in dormitory housing, to use toilets exposed to public view and to sleep with the lights on, even while being denied access to appropriate schooling. In a pretrial hearing, a federal judge blasted the administration for denying these children the protections of the Flores settlement.

Detainees who passed their initial hearings often found themselves stranded in Obama's Artesia facility without bond.

Many of the volunteers in Artesia tell similar stories about the misery of life in the facility.

“I thought I was pretty tough,” said Allegra Love, who spent the previous summer working on the border between Mexico and Guatemala.

“I mean, I had seen kids in all manner of suffering, but this was a really different thing. It’s a jail, and the women and children are being led around by guards. There’s this look that the kids have in their eyes. This lackadaisical look. They’re just sitting there, staring off, and they’re wasting away. That was what shocked me most.”

The detainees reported sleeping eight to a room, in violation of the Flores settlement, with little exercise or stimulation for the children.

Many were under the age of 6 and had been raised on a diet of tortillas, rice and chicken bits. In Artesia, the institutional cafeteria foods were as unfamiliar as the penal atmosphere, and to their parents’ horror, many of the children refused to eat.

“Gaunt kids, moms crying, they’re losing hair, up all night,” an attorney named Maria Andrade recalled. Another, Lisa Johnson-Firth, said: “I saw children who were malnourished and were not adapting. One 7-year-old just lay in his mother’s arms while she bottle-fed him.”

Mary O’Leary, who made three trips to Artesia, said: “I was trying to talk to one client about her case, and just a few feet away at another table there was this lady with a toddler between 2 and 4 years old, just lying limp. This was a sick kid, and just with this horrible racking cough.”


THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL - THIS OUTRAGE WAS REPORTED IN 2015, YET IT SEEMS JPP LIBERALS SAID NOTHING - NOW THAT TRUMP IS POTUS AND CONDITIONS IN FACILITIES ARE BETTER, THEY CALL THE POTUS A CRIMINAL -


https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/magazine/the-shame-of-americas-family-detention-camps.html
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BTW, are you recanting your earlier claim?

Nerdberg said:
The kids that came during Obamas time did not come with their families.
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Legion said:
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Legion said:
So you say, Nerdberg. Jeh Johnson sang a different tune, didn't he?



BTW, are you recanting your earlier claim?
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Nope. I saw the guy in charge on TV yesterday and he said it was NOT policy to separate families. He said was it possible that it happened. But the children were unaccompanied. Could he say absolutely none were split? He could not make that claim. But are you unable to understand the difference between people who were not having a policy to do it and Trump people who does it happily and as policy? The problem is Dems are careful about language and trying to be honest. Not the Repub way.
 
Nerdberg said:
Nope. I saw the guy in charge on TV yesterday and he said it was NOT policy to separate families. He said was it possible that it happened. But the children were unaccompanied. Could he say absolutely none were split? He could not make that claim.
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Is that what he said, verbatim, or is it what you want to make people think he said?

 
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