I think there's still a lot of doubt as to whether man actually went to the moon anyway, but its a puzzle how the apollo ships got past that van alien belt with all its radiation and huge rocks swirling around? how did they do that?
2007-04-06 00:46:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
sure gotta watch out for those Van aliens and those nasty belts of theirs.
2007-04-06 00:50:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Got news for you -- there ARE no large rocks in the Van Allen belts. Any rocks that got that close to either the inner or outer belts would be drawn into the Earth's atmosphere by gravity and would burn up on the way down to the ground (shooting stars). As for the radiation issue, not only was the capsule shielded, the Saturn V booster took the astronauts through the belts at a speed of roughly seven miles per second. They weren't exposed to the radiation for any more than two minutes, and the radiation levels for that duration of exposure were nowhere near harmful.
2007-04-06 00:58:52 · answer #2 · answered by sarge927 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you are very confused. There are no rocks in the Van Allen Belt and the belt is concentrated at the equator. The astronauts went through the Van Allen belt where it's thin and weak at the higher latitudes. By the way, the doubt about the astronauts was started by the Flat Earth Society who denied the fact that photos showed the world as a sphere by saying that it was done in a studio. It's amazing how many uneducated people believe them.
2007-04-06 00:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by Gene 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the Van Allen Belt (named after Dr. Van Allen who discovered it), is actually a belt of solar radiation. Some use this as proof we didn't go to the moon, however you must examine the type of radiation. I believe the radiation in the Van Allen belt is Alpha radiation which is not as harmful as other types. The "Rocks" you mentioned, you may be thinking of the asteroid belt that exists between mars and Jupiter and is thought to be remnants of a long extinct moon or small planet that once existed there millions of years ago.
2007-04-06 00:57:12 · answer #4 · answered by Myles D 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Van Allen belt is an area of radiation around the earth and has very small particles within it. I think you are confusing it with the Asteroid belt which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and would not need to be crossed for man to get to the moon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_moon_landing_hoax
2007-04-06 00:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by bumblecherry 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
See http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/ (/bad/tv/foxapollo.html) The Van Allen belt surrounds Earth, and is close by, with very few asteroids, usually, and the type of radiation it has is stopped easily by shielding. The asteroid belt is beyond the orbit of Mars, but before Jupiter.
2007-04-06 04:03:59 · answer #6 · answered by CLICKHEREx 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're kidding. They ducked.
Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon, aged 72, was approached by some conspiracy ratbag waving a Bible. The loon wanted Aldrin to swear on the Bible that he'd been to the Moon. Instead Aldrin punched him out. Good onya Buzz. Ought to be more of it. Di*kheads, thickheads and w*nkers should not be tolerated in polite society.
2007-04-06 01:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
van allen astroid belt is between mars and jupiter. our astronauts never went that far into space.
2007-04-06 05:55:57 · answer #8 · answered by captcosmos420 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you mean van allen radiation belt?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Allen_Belt
2007-04-06 01:14:53 · answer #9 · answered by neutron 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Van ALLEN. :)
2007-04-06 01:00:27 · answer #10 · answered by Eyota Xin 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋