And also
www-istp.gsfc.nasa.gov...
The Earth has two regions of trapped fast particles. The inner radiation belt discovered by Van Allen is relatively compact, extending perhaps one
Earth radius above the equator (1 RE = 6371 km or about 4000 miles). It consists of very energetic protons, a by-product of collisions by cosmic ray
ions with atoms of the atmosphere. The number of such ions is relatively small, and the inner belt therefore accumulates slowly, but because trapping
near Earth is very stable, rather high intensities are reached, even though their build-up may take years.


so no, and I'm not advocating "punishment", just that this particular one has been severely
beaten to death, and even just in the past few days...

