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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 6, 2009 14:16:29 GMT 10
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Post by Aardvaaks on Oct 8, 2009 20:09:11 GMT 10
There's no doubt about, space or more specifically space travel (on a slant away from your first post Drex) is a dangerous place especially at our current level of just starting our first few 'baby steps'.
The Van Allen belt was cited as a dangerous place to be hence the shuttle and other craft orbiting below it, sub 1000 miles, it also was cited as a reason for the apollo moon landings hoax theory.
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Post by electrobadgr on Oct 10, 2009 18:26:29 GMT 10
Interesting article, i have read various things about 2012 and the photon belt in the lead up to the galactic allignment. The story being that these cosmic rays are meant to trigger our next stage in evolution as we progress to the next stage in consciousness. I have also read a few articles debunking the 2012 allignment so im not sure where i stand on the subject, i certainly think its a more plausible possibility for 2012 than the planet x theory. Great video about the van allen belt, i have never found any explaination from NASA to convincingly explain how they made it through. I'd heard something along the lines of: Nasa timed their missions to coincide with known weak areas within the belt and managed to pass through the lethal radiation with the astronauts unharmed. Hmmmmmm
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Post by Wes Gear on Oct 16, 2009 21:16:11 GMT 10
we can move safely through the van allen belt as long as we don't linger there. the apollo missions slipped through it with very little in the way of radiation spikes. what many people don't know is the van allen belt is a non intrusive form of radiation..........like working at a nuclear power plant........its a accumulation effect........the longer exposed the more the risk is.........but properly shielded and short exposures won't be a danger to humans.
the shuttle isn't geared for that though. they have minimum radiation shielding since they still orbit within the earth's protective magnetic field.
some have argued it was laughable that the only protection the moon missions had were gold plated foil...........just so happens that 40+ years later we still haven't found anything that offers the protection the foil does. i've posted this challenge before at dtv........if you think the foil on the apollo crafts was inadequate........please ball up a big chunk of tin foil and stick it your microwave...........after the explosion come back and we'll talk some more. microwaves are a very dangerous form of light/radiation.......its penetration power is on par with cosmic radiation such as you'd find coming from stars........plain tin foil shiny side or dull does a great job of deflecting these waves. imagine shiny gold plated foil on the job.
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Post by Aardvaaks on Oct 19, 2009 5:56:44 GMT 10
Good point ther Drex, it just seems so implausible that something like foil could offer protection but it did the job, Nasa would have looked foolish using lead shielding and then haqving to use several tons more of fuel to propel the craft into space.
This deep probe we have out on the fringes of our solar system is throwing up some interesting thoughts about the nature of energy and motion throughout the cosmos as bodies in a collective universe all in a state of flux as I see it?
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