Moon landing

[Dork Lard]

It is very easy to fake something & still have 100's of 1000's of folk believe you. This is a lesson that only the believers amongst us cannot understand.

I don't think we had the technology at that time. We didn't have the computing power, both remote & base. We didn't have the stored energy required to return from the moon, & no one can explain to me how exactly we crossed the Van Allen Belt without 600tons of lead shielding !

Flags do not flutter in the breeze on the moon.

I would dearly like to think that man has set foot on the moon, but I'm also afraid that my intelligence is insulted by that claim.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Good Wi-Fi back then too. 240k on a land line!

 

[denso13]

Big NASA ?

Yes, they control everything. Don't fall for it.

Take an anagram of the first supposed moon lander person and multiply it by the number of american presidents and what do you get? Yes, 666. If you multiply that by any prime number what do you get? 9/11 of course.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Yes, they control everything. Don't fall for it.

Take an anagram of the first supposed moon lander person and multiply it by the number of american presidents and what do you get? Yes, 666. If you multiply that by any prime number what do you get? 9/11 of course.

You do yourself no favours.

I’ll ask cookie.

 

[denso13]

how exactly we crossed the Van Allen belt

They didn't. Or did they...

 

[denso13]

Flags do not flutter in the breeze on the moon.

No they don't. Or do they...

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Denny is doing well not to get triggered. But that means the thread will last at least.

 

[denso13]

I always thought the moon was made of cheese?

 

[Deleted member 221031]

I always thought the moon was made of cheese?

Who are you trying to Troll ?

We all know you’re dying to google proof. Hasn’t cookie a 4 page report on it ?

 

[denso13]

Who are you trying to Troll ?

Just trying to enlighten people. Don't fall for the lies of big MSM PHARMA NASA.

 

[Deleted member 221031]

Just trying to enlighten people. Don't fall for the lies of big MSM PHARMA NASA.

Night Dense-O

 

[RandomGrinch]

& no one can explain to me how exactly we crossed the Van Allen Belt without 600tons of lead shielding !

Here's a nice write-up...

How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon – The Wire Science

science.thewire.in

Basically, don't spend much time in the belt (<2 hours of Apollo 11s entire flight time); try and avoid the inner belt entirely and only pass through the weakest areas of the outer belt; set the craft in an attitude so that the crafts structure and instruments act as shielding; only carry the bare minimum of shielding to protect against particles of certain energies; and have some luck, apparently there were no contingencies, should a solar storm hit.

Interestingly, the largest proportion of the astronauts radiation exposure was due to solar particles outside of the earth's magnetic field.

...and don't try and blow a hole in the outer belt, it will only produce more radiation!

... Apparently.

 

[SFK]

no one can explain to me how exactly we crossed the Van Allen Belt

They didn't cross through it, they went around it.

It is not a sphere of radiation arround earth.
It is a 'belt' of radiation arround earth (as per its name).
So they flew over (or under) it.

 

[RandomGrinch]

They didn't cross through it, they went around it.

It is not a sphere of radiation arround earth.
It is a 'belt' of radiation arround earth (as per its name).
So they flew over (or under) it.

As you say, the Van Allen belts could have been avoided completely.
However, the Apollo missions did traverse the belts. An equatorial launch from Cape Kennedy gains >1600km/h from the earth's rotational speed, compared to the poles. This saves an immense amount of fuel, but makes crossing the belts (to some degree) inevitable.

 

[SFK]

Yep - I was being very simplistic and missed out a lot of the better detail that you included (I thought our messages posted at same time although time stamp suggests not).

Wanted to highlight the 'belt' bit, as this is often missed.

Find it fascinating that NASA used a lot of calculations to balance the distance to avoid the belt, available fuel, and the level of radiation the astronauts could be safely exposed to.

I also liked the fact that all the Radio Ham's arround the planet tracked all the flights using (spherical) trigonometry, and listened in to the returning communications.