Comments by "H. de Jong" (@h.dejong2531) on "Was The Moon Landing Faked? This Man Believes It Was" video.

  1. That astronaut wasn't well-informed. In 1958, James van Allen and his team at the University of Iowa discovered the belts that were later named after him, using measurements from the NASA missions Explorer 1. With Explorer 3 and 4 and Pioneer 3 he measured the radiation intensity. By 1962, we had a good map of the van Allen belt, and this is what it told us: in the part of the belt where the intensity is highest, it is high enough that if you stay for about a week (inside an Apollo command module), you receive a lethal dose. So for the Apollo missions, the trajectory was designed to minimize the amount of time spent there. The Apollo astronauts flew through the belts in about 3 hours, while avoiding the part with the highest levels entirely. The hull thickness of the CSM was more than enough to reduce the radiation level inside to manageable levels. Astronauts' overall exposure was actually dominated by solar particles once outside Earth's magnetic field. The total radiation received by the astronauts varied from mission-to-mission but was measured to be between 0.16 and 1.14 rads (1.6 and 11.4 mGy). More details in this video from Scott Manley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9YN50xXFJY
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  2.  @shaunmichaelchase  'patently absurd' is just the result of you applying your lack of knowledge to the situation. The LM was built perfectly for its task: to descend to the moon from lunar orbit, and ascend from the moon to lunar orbit. Its entire design was dictated by that one task. So they didn't spend time and resources on nonsense like 'making it look pretty' or streamlining it becaust that was pointless.
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  3. Bart Sibrel is a charlatan who does not deserve the attention he got.
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