How can we survive the radiation then?
2006-07-24 06:21:06 · 4 answers · asked by lamialestat 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Even assuming that the moon landing was a hoax, which only professional conspiracy theorists believe, Technology is constantly evolving, and there will be a way to shield future spacecraft from radiation.
On the hoax point, do you really think that the government would leave such things as detachable spacecraft components (LEM Legs), Lunar Modules, and Footprints on a surface where due to lack of air, they will never go away and be preserved for eternity, if it was all a hoax? Any country could send a probe to the moon and take pictures of the surface and find all the crap we left behind.
2006-07-24 06:37:00 · answer #1 · answered by Bigfoot 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Although my wife's father performed fuel calculations for the original Apollo landing, I'll spare you that speech. Instead, I will encourage you to watch two programs. The first show is called Conspiracy Moon Landing that it currently showing on the National Geographic Channel and it pretty much obliterates all of the popular conspiracy theories.
I would also encourage you to watch a movie called Capricorn One. Made it 1978, it is a fictional story about a fake mission to Mars. Although it is a science fiction story, it is a good example of how utterly impossible it would be to fake a moon landing for any length of time.
12 men walked on the moon from 1969 to 1972 and we have neither the resources nor the technology to pull off that big of a hoax for so long. Hundreds of thousands of people have worked on the space program. It would be far easier to put someone on the moon than to try and fake it and keep it secret for nearly 40 years.
The landings came at a time when our space program was ultra competitive with the former Soviet Union. Remember how big of a deal it was when Sputnik was put into orbit? They had the technology to monitor our moon shots and transmissions. Don't you think they would have called us out if they had evidence that it was all fake?
Perhaps the most definitive proof of our trip to the moon is what we left behind. For the last 35+ years, scientists have been beaming lasers to the moon and measuring the return times. How are they doing this? The beams are reflected back by equipment left on the moon on at 3 different locations.
Case closed.
2006-07-25 19:22:55 · answer #2 · answered by Carl 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How deadly radiation is depends on how long you are exposed to it. The Apollo astronauts were not in the belts long enough to be harmed by the radiation. Because of that, the van Allen belts are not an issue. However, radiation from intense solar activity is an issue for future manned missions to Mars (and for bases on both the moon and Mars) ...but shielding for such radiation is not all that difficult to accomplish, despite what the morons who actually believe the moon hoax will tell you.
2006-07-24 06:40:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
van allen is still alive and has looked into the matter and states that it is not a problem...
the issue is if we simply fly fast enough thru it and thru less intense regions of it then it will not effect us. so we can basically design arround it.
check out the link for more info
2006-07-24 06:38:18 · answer #4 · answered by the all knowing 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋