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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[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.