Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors?

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers working for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission have discovered that the Earth's magnetic tail could be harmful to future astronauts. The moon stays inside Earth's 'magnetotail' for six days every month — during full moon. This can have consequences ranging from lunar 'dust storms' to strong electrostatic discharges, according to one researcher quoted by NASA in 'The Moon and the Magnetotail.' So far, this is pure speculation: no man has been on the moon when the magnetotail hits. As added the same scientist, 'Apollo astronauts never landed on a full moon and they never experienced the magnetotail.' But read more for additional details about how Earth's magnetotail could affect men on the moon."

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Re:Fix from article

[Anonymous Coward]

"So far, this is pure speculation: no man has been on the moon" Fixed.

One reply seemed to take this seriously, not as a joke, so I'll bite too.

To believe that the moon landing never happened as per Fox documentary (oxymoron?) you would have to..

.. believe that Soviet and China was in on the conspiracy, at the height of the cold war when this was a major blow to them. They could easily have disproved a fake moon landing, and choose to let US revel in glory instead..?

.. believe that all the actual moon rock available to scientists and universities is... what?

That's just two Occams Razor points, not going into NASAs rebuttals against the so called photo evidence.

Re:All I know

[Anonymous Coward]

The interesting thing is that, before we replaced the job with machines, computation and computer science was dominated by women. It was one of those few "acceptable careers."

Maybe it's just that I pay more attention to this area more than others, but it seems like IT in general is an unfriendly place to be. It's fairly elitist in almost every aspect. This is the same complaint of a lot of people moving to linux, women in the industry, and foreigners in the US. There's very much a "who let /you/ in here?" attitude.

Then again, it seems like the people who are genuinely exclusionary are a very small minority; as it's been stated elsewhere, the status quo is very harsh amongst itself. It makes for a stressful situation for most normal people: If I say this to be friendly, will she perceive it as inappropriate? If I say this to rib her, will she take it as hostile? If I don't say anything, will she take it as exclusion? But on the other side: Was he trying to be mean or funny? Is he an awkward person is it because I'm a woman? Is he being friendly or flirty?

We've all become so self-conscious about what is a real problem, but which has come to dominate so many professional relationships, especially towards introduction. We all need to get over it, but it's the most extreme cases (genuine bigotry or oversensitivity) that hold us all back.