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Zaphod58
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
He also wasn't taking to you. That was meant for the claim NASA didn't even know the Van Allen Belts were there when Apollo launched.
turbonium1
What they used to believe about the VA Belts was completely untrue.
The VA Belts unpredictably, and suddenly, will change into a fierce hazard. How can the Apollo story possibly fit in here? Nine missions going out through the Belts, and back again, for a total of 18 separate flights. Without a hitch!
It's utterly absurd.
The October 9 event mimicked an observed, but poorly understood event measured in 1997 by another spacecraft. Ever since the 1997 event, scientists have pondered whether the increase in electron energy was the result of forces outside of the belts, a mechanism known as “radial acceleration,” or from forces within the belts, known as “local acceleration.” Data from the Van Allen Probes seems to put this question to rest.
“In the October 9, 2012, event, all of the acceleration took place in about 12 hours,”
Boy NASA was busy in December 1968 weren't they.
choos
[wow.. just wow.. so you pick the years you wish even if they are non sequential add them up and get the average to try to justify you your point about NASA's budget??? completely ignoring the peak which would completely skew your conclusions..
choos
but if i play your game but properly with no bias, if you get their total budget from 61-69 on average its about 24333 per year..
choos
but i suppose sinc you somehow believe GCR's will make someone sick or kill them within a week with maths skills like that im not really surprised.
choos
say what??? you are using the failure of constellation as proof apollo was faked.. you are saying that constellations issues with returning to the moon ie failure, proves apollo was faked.. or are you changing your story again??
choos
just look at the peak of NASA's spending.. in the mid 60's when they were developing the rockets and crafts to fly man on the moon, that is the level of costs involved to get man on the moon..
and look at the budget of NASA now, while developing new rockets and crafts to get man on the moon for a longer period of time..
choos
why would it take less time??? tell us why?? apollo technology is obsolete and is not designed for what orion is planned.
choos
the major problem you have is that you believe getting man to the moon is like building a time machine.. thats wrong.. getting man to the moon is physically/theoretically possible.. building a time machine is not theoretically possible.. therefore money can solve the issue of getting man to the moon.. the more money you put into it the faster it can be done.. and now you want you want NASA to get to the moon faster than the apollo era on less than half the budget they had??
choos
you are not clear on how research and development works.. you are not clear on the issues NASA has with the ares and orion..
choos
one of the issues with orion is the heatshield, whereas apollo done it by hand, the contractor for orion wants to automate the process.. this process does not exist.. and you think this proves your point???
choos
yea but you seem to think once something is done, a newer better object with more technology and newer designs and designing new manufacturing processes should be able to do the same thing faster and at or less than half the price.. but obviously you missed my point or chose to ignore it.
You can't take James Van Allen out of historical context. It's not possible to take the Apollo program out of the 1960's narrative... especially when you consider who was driving these nice Corvettes
and pictured in the glossy magazines month after month after month, every month of every year in 1960's.... the Astronots... they were heroes before they launched... they were heroes at the magazine stand... they were heroes on tv... but were they really heroes on the surface of the Moon?
At the time when Nixon was escalating the carpet bombings in No. Viet Nam he paid for it by cancelling Apollo programs and space exploration "For All Mankind". "For All Mankind" That's what the movie title says:
Zaphod58
reply to post by turbonium1
You can still get through and tell where the thinner spots are. The energy of the particles is changing, not the shape or the thickness of them. And even if you were caught in the belts when the energy changed it still wouldn't kill you, either instantly or in the short term.
turbonium1
An astronaut is in a pressurized spacesuit.
He walks around on Earth.
He walks on the moon.
Why would he walk and move around so much slower on the moon than he would on Earth?
He wouldn't.
He would actually walk and move around faster on the moon than he would on Earth. Why?
Because on the moon, there is no atmosphere. On Earth, there is resistance of an atmosphere. So we will move slower on Earth because of resistance. And faster on the moon, where there is no resistance.
Another factor is gravity, which is much greater on Earth than the moon. So the greater gravity will make our movements slower on Earth as well.
That doesn't hold true in Apollo-land, as we know. It is the complete opposite of reality.
AbleEndangered
you know that whole reflector thing placement with apollo 11.
I bet the moon is naturally gonna reflect that laser light back!
An actual reflector didn't make it up there til an actual later mission.
My old Great Grand Opa's 1st impression of apollo 11 was a hoax, the family said.
He was a polish Resistance Fighter in WWII and didn't trust anything!!
turbonium1
Why would he walk and move around so much slower on the moon than he would on Earth?
He wouldn't.
He would actually walk and move around faster on the moon than he would on Earth. Why?
Another factor is gravity, which is much greater on Earth than the moon. So the greater gravity will make our movements slower on Earth as well.
That doesn't hold true in Apollo-land, as we know. It is the complete opposite of reality.