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To: Jan_Sobieski
"Additionally, we could not even get a live chimpanzee to moon orbit and back because of lethal levels of radiation from Van Allen Radiation Belts…"

More anti-intellectual claptrap. The protection of earth's magnetosphere -- which is what protects us from solar winds and other space radiation -- extends to beyond the orbit of the moon, which means the Van Allen radiation belts don't begin until you're beyond the moon's orbit.

People who are science-ignorant really should second-guess their decision to flaunt that fact.

15 posted on 08/01/2023 8:48:43 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli
the Van Allen radiation belts don't begin until you're beyond the moon's orbit

Please look up the limits of the earth's Van Allen radiation belts.

32 posted on 08/01/2023 9:08:08 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Paal Gulli
Van Allen radiation belts:

No, they don't extend past Luna. They don't even extend past Geosynchronous Orbit.

Note that:

A) They're belts, not spheres.

B) They're not uniformly intense.

C) They're not uniformly thick.

When sending Men to Luna, you send them AROUND the most intense parts, and send them quickly. Radiation exposure is cumulative.

The "Moon Landing was a Hoax" crowd simply do not know what they're talking about. Some are ignorant, some are gullible, and some are damned liars.

38 posted on 08/01/2023 9:23:16 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Paal Gulli

This is what NASA says about the belts:

https://spacecenter.org/what-are-the-van-allen-radiation-belts/


39 posted on 08/01/2023 9:23:33 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Paal Gulli

“which means the Van Allen radiation belts don’t begin until you’re beyond the moon’s orbit.”

You have no idea what you are talking about, and this from a guy who was on the missions that discovered the third belt; Temporal F.


60 posted on 08/01/2023 9:56:55 AM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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