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And passing through that radiation didnt kill them? Amazing
Originally posted by weedwhacker
An average American receives about 385 mrem of radiation every year.
Originally posted by MR BOB
you know that astronaughts suffered bright flashes in their eyes? many of them reported this. it was eventually worked out it was radiation passing through their brains and eyes.
Originally posted by pale5218
The 40th anniversary of the first man on the moon lends a memory of spending the day at the beach as a kid and being woken by my parents to witness the historical event. Recently my job has brought me in contact with some folks that were very involved with the Apollo missions and have heard a number of stories from them. One in particular was interesting that I though I would share as we approach the anniversary.
Everything during these missions were scripted including who was to do what, when, where etc. If a switch was to be thrown, it was scripted. If a procedure was to be accomplished, it was scripted.
Well the story goes, Buzz Aldrin was originally supposed to be the first one down the ladder and walk on the moon, scripted of course. Neil Armstrong was the commander and this didn’t sit well with him so he pleaded his case to NASA. He felt that because he was the commander, it should be him to be the first. NASA agreed and changed the scenario, having Neil be the first down the ladder and or course making history. The script had been changed, no secrets, Buzz was aware this was changed.
Well one of the functions Buzz had was to be in charge of shooting the photos while they were on the surface of the moon. When they got back to earth after the mission, NASA reviewed the photo’s and to their surprise there was not one still photo of Neil from when they were on the surface. They asked Buzz why this was and he responded “It wasn’t in the script”.
So there is no still photo of Neil on the surface of the moon. There is video and selected frames from the videos but not one still photo. There is one catch to this, one photo of Buzz close up, shows Neil, as a reflection, in Buzz’s visor. No other still photo to this day, there apparently is no love lost between the two, either.
Peace
Russia and America are PARTNERS in the space program... always have been, but with a 'friendly rivalry' Kennedy died because his Apollo program caused 'problems'
Originally posted by jinx880101
reply to post by zorgon
Russia and America are PARTNERS in the space program... always have been, but with a 'friendly rivalry' Kennedy died because his Apollo program caused 'problems'
I watched a tv show on this today too, in fact its on right now on BBC KNWLEDGE, they asked American civilians off the street if they think Russia deserves the title, and one replied "No, I don't, paticularly because they are are America's rivals. We should have been the one's up there,not them."
Do you think that the Ameriacan civilians did not know of their partnership back then?
No, what's amazing is a lack of willingness to look it up for yourself, rather than rely on BS from the "hoaxists".
I went to great lengths to research this, and post in another thread afew weeks ago...If I can find it I'll bring it here.
Gist is: The total radiation accumulated by a satellite in Earth orbit in one year works out to about 2500 rem. That is 2,500,000 mrem. (One rem = 1000 mrem)
One year = 365 days, so that's 6850 mrem/day. The satellite passes through the Van Allen Belts twice each orbit, and each orbit is about 90 minutes. 16 orbits, twice each time, means 32 passes through the VAB. That's a dosage of 214 mrem per passage.
An average American receives about 385 mrem of radiation every year.
SO...the Apollo flights, which BTW were planned to go through the thinnest parts of the VAB, as rapidly as possible, exposed the occupants to about one year's worth of normal radiation dosage....but, of course, they had protection...the figures shown for the satellite exposure are not including any protection.
SO....deadly!?!?! Hardly.
Do Moon 'hoaxists' like to lie, distort and twist information in order to sell their books, DVDs, T-shirts, stickers and other assorted garbage???
Most definately.......
On the sunward side, it is compressed because of the solar wind, while on the other side it is elongated to around three
Originally posted by SearchLightsInc
And passing through that radiation didnt kill them? Amazing
Should there ever be a nuclear war i'll be sure to stock up on some kitchen foil XD
If a little bit of radiation killed us, we'd be dropping dead every time we get a chest X-ray. If the chest X-ray doesn't kill us, why would the Apollo astronauts be killed from roughly the same exposure?