The EMU visor assembly consisted of several layers. The gold visor was the outer most transparent layer. The inner visor provided protection from ultraviolet radiation.

Deep Impact, science fact? That's hilarious. Pretty idiotic that their visors didn't have UV protection.

[edit on 12/13/2008 by Phage]

double post


[edit on 12/13/2008 by Phage]

Come on now I was hoping for a real Moon clip and you put some Hollywood up? Waste of a click really but now that I'm here.

The astronauts did have UV protection for the record. That is one of the biggest concerns when entering space because you are no longer protected by our atmosphere. Solar storms also occur on a pretty steady basis.

thanks for the replies all and appreciate the comments. However, some might have only watch the video instead of reading the side bar on youtube itself; If you have, GREAT!

Here's the just what I'm getting at.

Is the sidebar comment in youtube scientifically correct or not? *need some hard data*

Are the Movie facts in the beginning fact or just hyped? *need hard data here not comments*

Here is the entire sidebar comments from the very same youtube presented in this thread for you reading pleasure.

I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing some great posts and some civilized 'agree to dis-agree' comments.

'Snow blindness (Niphablepsia) is a painful condition, typically a keratitis, caused by exposure of unprotected eyes to the ultraviolet (UV) rays in bright sunlight reflected from snow or ice. This is especially a problem in polar regions and at high altitudes, as with every thousand feet (approximately 305 meters) increase in elevation, the intensity of UV rays goes up five percent. The problem is also related to the condition arc eye sometimes experienced by welders. Snow blindness is akin to a sunburn of the cornea and conjunctiva, and may not be noticed for several hours from exposure. Symptoms can run the gamut from eyes being bloodshot and teary to increased pain, feeling gritty and swelling shut. In very severe cases, snow blindness can cause permanent vision loss.'- wikipedia

Mattingly was sure the "disappearance" of the stars was due to his **gold visor**. The doctors had advised him to leave the reflector down, LEST HE BE EXPOSED TO HARMFUL RADIATION, but he couldn't stand it anymore."

" *He blinked the visor open just long enough* for the universe to show a familiar face: There they are! " A Man On The Moon - P.492 A.Chaikin

From Dr Phil Plaits very own review of Deep Impact at BadAstronomy dot com. "Bad: One of the away team astronauts is ***blinded by the sunlight***. Good: ***I suspect this may not be totally inaccurate;*** I am not sure how close The Comet was to the Sun when this happened. I would expect NASA to give them sun visors, however, or build in a UV block to the visor. They were on the dark side of The Comet, after all, so they would not have had their sun visors down, and he was admittedly too panicked to think of snapping it down. Still, a moment's exposure should not have so badly burned his face. That was added for drama."

Tribute to Apollo 17's Jack 'Crazy Horse' Schmitt who wasn't the slightest bit concerned about potenial damage to his eyes or burns to his face because he wasn't on the Moon.

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Originally posted by blowfishdl
Come on now I was hoping for a real Moon clip and you put some Hollywood up? Waste of a click really but now that I'm here.

The astronauts did have UV protection for the record. That is one of the biggest concerns when entering space because you are no longer protected by our atmosphere. Solar storms also occur on a pretty steady basis.

well, yes we know they did have UV, that's not the question. The whole just of the vid is ....

Why did NASA have to TELL the astronaut to put his visor DOWN because of the sun?? anyways.. I digress..

teslaandlyne (4 seconds ago)
Another UV anecdote: Welders had low birthrates.
For UFO pilots, apparently at high speed the corona appears inside the craft
and the UV affects the male pilots. Guess from 1945 to 1975 the birthrate
dropped for saucer pilots. Imagine, she saucer pilots are among us.

ED: The gold visor was to disguise the astronautics.
If they went outside the Disney-NASA-? Moon Studios they would have
seen stars like everyone else, even in the skys.


[edit on 12/16/2008 by TeslaandLyne]

Originally posted by Komodowell, yes we know they did have UV, that's not the question. The whole just of the vid is ....

Why did NASA have to TELL the astronaut to put his visor DOWN because of the sun?? anyways.. I digress..

because it is the job of the people in mission control to make sure the astronauts do things safely, and since keeping the visor up for extended periods of time is not safe, they told the stronaut to put it down. Astronauts are by nature risk-takers, but the people in mission control usually engineers who by nature are usually not risk-takers, and were required to keep the mission going "by the book".

The fact remains that keeping the visor up would not result in real damage unless it is done for extended periods of time. The argument raised in the video is not a valid one and is meaningless.

Here's the thing with the whole Moon thing.

Obama just mentioned the we went to the Moon in a speech on how
great America is in doing things.

What the government said we did, stays with the government.

Yeah, so why the gold visors?
UV protection is transparent and lifting the gold visor did not open
the helmet.
Sounds like a way to substitute astronauts.

Radiation must be a killer if we didn't go to the Moon.
That would be the only reason except for risky navigation
and controls.

I we did go to the Moon, then radiation on the Moon and on the
way to the Moon is low.

Deep space radiation may be even greater and thus eliminate any
living thing from a Star Trek mode.

I would say substitute for the Moon mission is of interest to
the Lunar Conspiracy and not so much the orbit missions.
Just think getting credit for Moon walking and some actor
did it. I don't see that line from the conspiracy side and
most seem to take lame objections that are easily discounted.
So if an act, the astronauts are good actors and I don't think
that is going to hold water. The substitute behind the mask
was never in a conspiracy theory as far as I am aware.
But it is another unverifiable facet.

I haven't seen many conspiracies asking if orbital missions are faked.

Now with more Mars and interplanetary mission talk among
the peanut gallery of faithful followers of NASA, the exposure
of even deadlier radiation is perhaps being suppressed.
For those assuming the radiation dangers cancel such efforts,
think Von Braun finally realized whether by rocket or by the
suppressed UFO, the exploration of space would never happen.

Perhaps some day a celebrity would want a deep space
round about. No landing just a good dose non lethal cosmic rays
(or partials perhaps according to Tesla). We can let the
dumber levels of the Illuminati expose the lies of the higher up.

Astronaut id and radiation dosage perhaps a small part of the
so called Lunar Landing Lies of an Illuminati staged event on
mankind.

Is Vegas taking any bets with a reasonable time frame, I might
have to name some beneficiaries.
Better than ponzi or sub prime or bailouts perhaps.