Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Why The US is Struggling to Return to the Moon - Firefly Blue Ghost" video.
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@daryllect6659
"Anyone capable of critical thought knows that no human has ever been on the lunar surface."
So that'll be entire branches of science, specialist disciplines and fields of expertise worldwide such as aerospace engineering, Pulitzer nominated investigative journalism, Nobel Prize winning physicists, some 10.000 private investors and space sector organisations, and each of the 76 other space agencies on the planet to name a few, all incapable of "critical thought"?
The Apollo Programme has been dissected by technical journalists and some of the finest minds on the planet for over half a century. It was completely transparent and there is no engineering project in history of the scale and complexity that has been so ingrained in the public eye and exhaustively covered. In addition to this, in excess of half a century, the physics of every mission profile, the engineering of every design down to each schematic, specification - to every nut, bolt, switch and circuit breaker has been forensically scrutinised and technically examined worldwide. There are tens of thousands of publications, journal articles/papers and books written on the subject. The private sector space sector is growing exponentially. Companies such as Blue Origin and Space X and Aerojet Rocketdyne are part of a huge supply chain of consisting of a myriad of contractors, partnerships and stakeholders in Project Artemis. Meanwhile independent organisations such as Intuitive Machines, Advanced Space, Astrobotic, Northrup-Grumman, Venturi Astrolab and many others are making modern lunar missions happen in addition to the 76 other space agencies I mentioned. To varying degrees, the work they're doing is predicated upon what was learned during the Apollo missions and this invites large scale investment from stakeholders with serious money on the line who need to be privy to the inner workings of these ventures. There are also companies working on next generation of lunar terrain vehicles for the Artemis missions who base aspects of their work on the accomplishments of Apollo. Then there are the professors teaching orbital mechanics at MIT, Purdue, UC Boulder, and other elite universities whose work also draws on the achievements of the Apollo program.
Meanwhile, let's listen instead to an insignificant, non-achieving nobody arrogantly mouthing off and trolling on the comments section of You Tube that thinks "critical thought" involves mindlessly regurgitating what some dumb online conspiracy video or social media meme told him to think about a subject that he has absolutely zero knowledge of whatsoever.
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@robertminks7100
"No the radiation belt would kill. How do I know this?"
Because you allowed some dumb online conspiracy theorist to tell you what to think about a subject that you clearly know absolutely nothing about whatsoever. You don't even know that they are 'belts' in the plural since there are two, plus a third that is transitory.
"the Van Allen radiation belt can and will deliver several rads per hour. To an unshielded mammal passing through it."
Fortunate then that the Apollo missions traversed the sparsest regions at high velocity and in a short space of time. Meanwhile, I suggest that you familiarise yourself with the details of last year's Polaris Dawn mission. Presumably that was "fake" too?
"When I worked a reactor"
Of course you did. Isn't the internet a wonderful thing?
"I had to wear a device on my belt and log it daily for radiation levels."
Are you sure that you're not confusing that with your curfew tag?
"We would be literally fired and hospitalized if the total rads exceeded around 3-5 per YEAR."
What a load of horseshit. Radiation doses measured during Apollo were significantly lower than the yearly average of 5 rem (TEDE) set by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Committee for workers who use radioactive materials in factories and institutions across the United States. The annual LD 50/30 is in the range from 400 to 450 rem (4 to 5 sieverts) - received over a very short period. "3 Rads" is 30 mSv, and no, that will not get you hospitalised when spread over a year. You are making a complete fool out of yourself.
"Don't listen to these fools"
Absolutely. Let's ignore actual branches of science such as astrophysics, nuclear physics and radiobiology and listen instead to a random, insignificant, conspiracy believing nobody, fantasising on the comments section of You Tube. Righto then!
Let's face it, the only reason that you've actually heard of the belts in the first place is because some online con artist grifting junk conspiracy theory told you what to think about them and you're attempting to sound informed and clever on the comments section of You Tube. If you have a shred of integrity then I'd like you to honestly ask yourself the following questions:
1/ How much do I genuinely know about the Van Allen Belts? - their shape extent and distribution? Energies and intensity? Type of radiation?
2/ What do I actually understand by alpha and beta particle radiation and shielding against it?
3/ What have I understood about the actual structure of the Command Module and the materials that it was fashioned from?
4/ What have I learnt about the trajectories flown by each of the Apollo missions and their passage through the belts?
5/ What do I know about what James Van Allen himself, (and his soviet counterpart Sergei Vernov) had to say about the belts and the Apollo missions?
6/ Why do I think that I know better than them?
7/ Compared to the 68 minute transit of the Apollo missions, how long did last year's Polaris Dawn mission spend in the more dangerous inner belt and how long was the hatch open for?
8/ What have I done to challenge my preconceptions and the claims made by online conspiracy theorists in relation to the VABs?
If the answer to these questions is either nothing, or I don't know, then obtaining them will prevent you from humiliating yourself in the future and avoid making such ignorant and uninformed statements on on a public comments section with no actual prior knowledge about the subject whatsoever.
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