Had a chat with my grocery clerk about the moon landing faking theory

Ran into old Mike at the register last night and he laid out this whole argument about how the radiation belts would have fried the Apollo astronauts, something about the Van Allen belts being a death sentence. He said NASA faked the whole thing to win the space race against Russia, and he pulled up some NASA documents from the 60s that supposedly admit the risks are too high. Now I'm stuck wondering if there's any real data that proves they got through that radiation safely, or if it's all just a cover up.

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reese_lane292d ago

@abby_martin28 has a point about how short exposure to intense stuff can still mess you up, but that phone charger analogy doesn't quite work here. The Van Allen belts aren't like a constant stream of radiation - the Apollo missions went through the thinnest parts real fast, like driving through a puddle instead of swimming in a lake. NASA had actual radiation measurements from those flights showing the astronauts got less than a chest x-ray's worth, which is public data you can look up.

noah13510d ago

The Apollo 11 trip took about 8 days, not long enough for lethal radiation exposure.

abby_martin289d ago

Yeah people bring up the "not long enough" thing all the time but they forget space radiation isn't like getting sunlight for a week. It's like how I leave my phone charger plugged in overnight thinking it'll be fine but then the cable starts fraying from the constant stress. Or when someone says a hot car interior won't hurt your sunglasses but after a few days the lenses get all bubbly and warped. Short term exposure to something intense can still mess things up real bad if the conditions are extreme enough.