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Originally posted by Azrael75
and on topic, did the mythbusters cover how 1/8th inch thick aluminum managed to keep the astronauts from cooking in the van allen belts?
Originally posted by Azrael75
reply to post by Kryties
you need to explain that to the shuttle astronauts who complain of the radiations effects in their safely sheilded shuttle well below the belts. and i would not trust that fox special any more than the mythbusters.
p.s. you did not acutally answer my question. the radiation is too strong for them to get anywhere near it. to assume that they were only in it a little while so it was ok is completely insane.
Proponents of the Apollo Moon Landing hoax have argued that space travel to the moon is impossible because the Van Allen radiation would kill or incapacitate an astronaut who made the trip. Van Allen himself, now deceased , dismissed these ideas. In practice, Project Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation. Astronauts who visited the moon probably have a slightly higher risk of cancer Cancer during their lifetimes, but still remain unlikely to become ill because of it.
While such drastic measures are needed to shield against intense, high-frequency electromagnetic radiation, that is not the nature of the radiation in the Van Allen belts. In fact, because the Van Allen belts are composed of high-energy protons and high-energy electrons, metal shielding is actually counterproductive because of the Bremsstrahlung that would be induced.
Metals can be used to shield against particle radiation, but they are not the ideal substance. Polyethylene is the choice of particle shielding today, and various substances were available to the Apollo engineers to absorb Van Allen radiation. The fibrous insulation between the inner and outer hulls of the command module was likely the most effective form of radiation shielding. When metals must be used in spacecraft (e.g., for structural strength) then a lighter metal such as aluminum is better than heavier metals such as steel or lead. The lower the atomic number, the less Bremsstrahlung.
Most astronauts on Apollo, Skylab, and MIR reported ‘flashes of light’ occurring in different shapes and apparently moving across the visual field, in the absence of auditory, somatosensory, or olfactory abnormal percepts. A temporal correlation with heavy nuclei or protons has been documented in space and comparable phosphenes were observed by volunteers whose eyes were exposed to accelerated heavy ions at intensities below the threshold for Cerenkov visible radiation.
Originally posted by Azrael75
reply to post by Kryties
ok, so dont take this as hostile ok. just a question. you are saying that you believe nasa did fake some stuff but they did still go to the moon?
Originally posted by Azrael75
reply to post by Kryties
id happily take your point about them being able to get through the belts if you could explain to me why nasa is having such a hard time figuring out how to get us safely back through them.
Originally posted by Azrael75
and is there a reason we are all completely skipping over that footage?
Originally posted by Azrael75
look, i am not stopping anyone from talking about it am i?
i have not shut anyone up or out.
what is left to discuss about it?
it seems more like a copout to get out of answering my claims.
Originally posted by Azrael75
reply to post by mapsurfer_
two posts in a row and neither one addresses the video eh? nice to skip over what you dont like and attack what you do. well i guess i will use the same method in answering back. you can have this answer whenever i decide that suits me. what a fun game.
Originally posted by dave420
reply to post by -0mega-
No, they didn't. There is continuous footage of the astronauts on the surface of the moon, much longer than the 30-odd seconds of 1/6th gravity they experienced on the Zero-G plane. Not to mention there is no possible way they could have made a sound stage that large, AND got it to fly in the correct curved flight path to create the 1/6th gravity. Not to mention the impossibility of making a sound stage as large as would be needed in a vacuum on earth. It would be easier to send people to the moon. Which they did.
Please pay attention It's guesswork like yours that keeps this rubbish alive.