regardless of the question of the safety of travelling beyond the earth, and ignoring the fact of the constant fluctuations of radiation emitted from the sun, it is one thing to stop circuitry from being fried by EMF, and another to stop a human from being terminally exposed to radiation other than the apollo missions, there is no other empirical evidence (if you call the documentation on apollo empirical) of the safety of putting living things beyond the van allen belt. Why haven't any further efforts been made? I think the answer is because they know it can't be done with present technology. Surely the russians would have had at least one stab at it if there was any truth to the apollo mission story.
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Oh yeah, and have you examined the veracity of all the photo and video documentation of it? it is so full of holes. And I think if you look into the levels of ambient radiation out there, beginning at the van allen belt, you will find that it has been measured at higher rads than is safe for prolonged exposure to humans. And even if it was safish, as soon as the sun blasts a flare, fooom, there goes your humans.
Where is there other evidence of life surviving out past the van allen belt apart from the highly promoted lunar missions? and why hasn't there been more lunar missions?
It was highlighted to me very strongly that we have not in truth as yet escaped the van allen belt in manned space travel. I don't know if anyone knows what I am talking about, but outside of the inner margin of the van allen belt it would take 6 inches of lead to make the radiation levels inside a spacecraft safe for a human. If you doubt this, just look it up! it seems obvious to me.
we really don't need more junk in the upper atmosphere in orbital regions. We really don't even know what the huge amounts of microwave radiation being bounced back and forth from sattelites is doing to our atmosphere.
I would like to see some genuine efforts made to make the propulsion systems cost effective for space travel, and then further to that to make the vehicles that can reach beyond earth's gravity safe for human transport.
I'm sure my voice is going to be lost in the noise here, but It's Worth A Try...
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regardless of the question of the safety of travelling beyond the earth, and ignoring the fact of the constant fluctuations of radiation emitted from the sun, it is one thing to stop circuitry from being fried by EMF, and another to stop a human from being terminally exposed to radiation
other than the apollo missions, there is no other empirical evidence (if you call the documentation on apollo empirical) of the safety of putting living things beyond the van allen belt. Why haven't any further efforts been made?
I think the answer is because they know it can't be done with present technology. Surely the russians would have had at least one stab at it if there was any truth to the apollo mission story.
*sigh* Oh yeah, and have you examined the veracity of all the photo and video documentation of it? it is so full of holes. And I think if you look into the levels of ambient radiation out there, beginning at the van allen belt, you will find that it has been measured at higher rads than is safe for prolonged exposure to humans. And even if it was safish, as soon as the sun blasts a flare, fooom, there goes your humans. Where is there other evidence of life surviving out past the van allen belt apart from the highly promoted lunar missions? and why hasn't there been more lunar missions?
It was highlighted to me very strongly that we have not in truth as yet escaped the van allen belt in manned space travel. I don't know if anyone knows what I am talking about, but outside of the inner margin of the van allen belt it would take 6 inches of lead to make the radiation levels inside a spacecraft safe for a human. If you doubt this, just look it up! it seems obvious to me. we really don't need more junk in the upper atmosphere in orbital regions. We really don't even know what the huge amounts of microwave radiation being bounced back and forth from sattelites is doing to our atmosphere. I would like to see some genuine efforts made to make the propulsion systems cost effective for space travel, and then further to that to make the vehicles that can reach beyond earth's gravity safe for human transport. I'm sure my voice is going to be lost in the noise here, but It's Worth A Try...