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The Van Allen radiation belt is a very violet and dangerous region. How will we conquer this obstacle in order to achieve manned mars missions? Why is this rarely mentioned?


Added: May-14-2012 Occurred On: May-14-2012
By: thoth1
In: Science and Technology
Tags: thinking, curiosity, hoax, science.
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  • From http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html#radiation




    Bad: A big staple of the HBs is the claim that radiation in the van Allen Belts and in deep space would have killed the astronauts in minutes. They interview a Russian cosmonaut involved in the USSR Moon program, who says that they were worried about going in to the unknowns of space, and suspected that radiation would have penetrated the hull of the spacecraft.

    Good: Kaysing's exact words in the program are ``Any human being More..

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    MurderDenied (242.50)  

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    • @MurderDenied
      this is a great explanation, meat will not cook if you leave it in the microwave for only an hour or so...really? Simply being in the belt for minutes spells death.
      the levels of radiation in the belt are unmatched to what we have here on earth. couple this with the bogus footage of the landing and the fact that all thses decades have passed and we never returned. No other country have gone to the moon. We even went as far as to try to send rovers (unmammed) to mars. With the lea More..

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      thoth1 (139.40)  

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    • @thoth1 Retard:
      http://www.clavius.org/envrad.html

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      gregsto (2452.68)  

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    • @gregsto
      Well played my friend!

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      MurderDenied (242.50)  

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    • @thoth1 here's a good one ...

      - quote of the day -

      "The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense." -- Dr. James Van Allen

      - quote of the day -

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      rpurdey (46.14)

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    • @MurderDenied HURRAY FOR ME!!!!!

      Posted May-15-2012 By 
      gregsto (2452.68)  

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  • wow. cutting edge stuff there. 1975?

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    Rational_Surge (432.30)

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  • A single nuclear blast created a new Van Allen belt that is still too radioactive to pass through safely? Bullshit, these boobs have no sense of scale. A nuclear explosion is a pin prick on the earth. What about all of the nuclear tests that have occurred on Earth itself. Utter garbage.

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    culliganator (86.66)  

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    • @culliganator
      there is nothing in space like an atmosphere to contain the explosion.

      Posted May-14-2012 By 
      thoth1 (139.40)  

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  • Was anyone else expecting a Monty Python skit near the beginning?

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    a1s2d3f4 (186.96)

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  • we live on a microwave planet infested with radiation.

    The van allen belt is not to be feared.. Send a horse first.

    david percy is into lying about the moon landings.

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    OwenHiggins (1641.44)

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  • Most of this is crap, but not the Starfish Prime stuff.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfish_Prime

    It did create a new radiation belt, although it faded away after five years or so.

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    ommadawn (3210.34)

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  • This video is complete bullshit: http://www.clavius.org/envrad.html

    Posted May-14-2012 By 
    gregsto (2452.68)  

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  • the numbers just do not add up.
    60's technology took us to the moon.
    2012 technology cannot?
    It has been decades folks.
    the chinese are predicting 2035 at their pace.

    Posted May-15-2012 By 
    thoth1 (139.40)  

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