11-17-2009, 09:53 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DamianJ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/20...myths-debunked
The killer radiation
Claim: Apollo astronauts could not have travelled to the moon as a giant belt of lethal space radiation would have frazzled them.
Why it's nonsense: These so called Van Allen belts, where the Earth's magnetic field collects solar radiation, would be dangerous only if people were to hang out there for several days. The astronauts whizzed through in a matter of hours, and received a radiation dose similar to an X-ray. "You can pass through quite safely as long as you don't linger too long," Millard says.
Sigh.
Damn you, pesky science, for spoiling the tinfoil hat wearing loons' fun!
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Yeah... pretty much what I said way up there in post 31. 
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