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Alicia Silverstone tells NASA to back off

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July 9, 2010

Not so Clueless anymore! Alicia Silverstone, actress, author and PETA spokesperson, is doing her part to earn her title as an animal rights activist.  Workers at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, centered in Long Island, were the recipients of a phone message from Silverstone, trying to dissuade them from electing to take on a “really cruel project” sponsored by NASA.  The venture would require that 30 squirrel monkeys be inundated with a potentially lethal dose of gamma radiation, in order to recreate an environment like that which an astronaut would experience on a single round trip journey to Mars.  NASA has supposedly pledged up to 1.75 million dollars of tax payer money to allow the project to go forward.

Here is Alicia’s message (received by an estimated 1,000 workers) from

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