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2009-09-19 02:41:17
Varegg
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I was going through some movies on my external HDD the other day and came a cross a movie I got from a friend some time back about the Lunar landing.

In great detail facts about the lunar landing was proving we didn't land on the moon and most of them was debunked by this NASA guy, one question was however not touched by NASA at all and that was the danger of crossing the Van Allen radiation belt and returning to earth alive, that is supposed to be not possible according to some "experts" ...

The Van Allen belt is held in place by earth gravitation and is non excistant over the poles.

Can anyone enlighten me on this subject? Kmar?
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2009-09-19 03:08:50
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|6914|UK
Well I just had a poke around on Google and it would appear that the general consensus is that the radiation exposure from the The Van Allen belt is classed between "moderately dangerous" and "non-existent" as far as humans are concerned.

This assumes that the capsule that the humans are in is coated in a layer of Aluminium - which they are.

As far as damage to the capsule (or indeed satellites orbiting the Earth) goes: insignificant. All that has to be done is to shut off the more delicate sensors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_radiation_belt
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_a … 0228a.html

If you want a better source then it's probably in one of my text books
2009-09-19 03:22:54
Reciprocity
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+721|6868|the dank(super) side of Oregon
the van allen belt is held in place by earth's magnetic field, different than the gravitational field.  supposedly. the apollo missions traversed the inner and outer belts quickly enough to avoid dangerous levels of radiation.  personally, i think all those post-apollo  irradiated astronauts running around, all promiscuous like,  were the origin of the hiv virus.  but that's just theory, i could be wrong.

 

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