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Stars send out their light via a tried and true method: radiation. The light is carried in the star's rays; aka, electromagnetic waves. Our own sun's rays have not changed in nature for an awful long time, but we have only recently begun to understand what those rays consist of and how they act upon materials and humans in the void of space. Slowly, the new understanding is leaking into the media, and if you read carefully, you are beginning to realize that the sun has its own kind of "weather" which consists of surface storms (sun spots) that flare in explosions of light. Flares are unique occurrences, they are different from radiation sent forth by the magnetic explosions of a coronal mass ejection. A CME has heavy ions of energetic protons and it seems to lumber along at speeds of one to four million miles per hour. A flare OTOH, has energetic electrons, and travels at the speed of light, being an explosion of light, it is purely sunlight by composition. So for starters, when you read about major and minor flares that took place during the Apollo missions, realize that the "major" flares were more likely CME's ... while the "minor" flares were actually flares. The CME's might have taken a day and a half up to 3 days to reach the earth and moon, while the flares arrived in ten minutes, the same as all sunlight does.
What we are learning today is that both the CMEs and the flares contain deadly radiation poisoning, that even a single solar flare could kill you, and that while you might survive one and even two if you are lucky, you would never survive three in a row, and the five that happened during Apollo 17's flight at solar maximum, would have meant certain death; never mind the four "major" flares that also took place during those two weeks they pretended to be visiting the moon.
The energetic particles contained in solar flares are also caught up in the earth's magnetosphere, where the electrons tend to travel towards the poles and produce the aurora lights in the northern and southern skies. But the protons remained stuck in bands of radiation and die a slow death of five to ten years before losing their charge. Hence, flying through the Van Allen belts at solar maximum is another sure fire way to receive a large dose of radiation... and energetic particles carry a much higher charge than the man made radiation we dole out for x-rays. Energetic electrons are ten times the electron volt administered by our x-ray machines, while energetic protons are 100-1000 times higher in charge. Hence, flying through the Van Allen belts at solar maximum is a deadly affair all its own, because those protons are brand new and they are buzzing at 1000 times the electron volt charge of man made x-rays. All four of Apollo 17's "major" flares would have been caught up in the Van Allen belts and awaiting their return to earth; and lets nor forget that one of the centuries biggest CMEs happened just prior to Apollo 17 launch, so it was captured in the radiation belts and pouring into that flight as well.... supposedly.
In reality, none of the Apollo flights received any radiation at all. The dosimeters all read one REM or even less than one REM for every single Apollo mission. IOW, they were all near earth orbits in the same protective range that the space station maintains; roughly 200 miles up. Manned flight has never gone beyond that range. Neither are we able to do so. A thin layer of gold does not protect against radiation poisoning on earth, let alone the energetic radiation poisoning of the sun's rays. Manned flight to the moon or Mars is nationalistic propaganda, not honest science. Radiation shielding requires a very dense element, remember, you are trying to block a sub-atomic particle, and those dense elements like gold and lead are also the heaviest elements we work with; meanwhile, space craft is made of super light materials on account of fuel and payload and overcoming the earth's gravity. So, blocking energetic particles in space is a non-starter. The entire capsule would need something like six feet thick gold to fully protect it's occupants... and forget about windows because radiation poisoning would flood in through those and kill everyone inside.
The days of pretending that energetic particles are innocuous radiation poisoning are far in our technological past. We've known better for a long, long time in terms of sun science. The biggest thing being studied by science today is the sun. Google sun science and you will immediately realize that we are studying it at every level of the electromagnetic wave spectrum. Today we know what those sun spots are, they are nuclear fission chain reaction explosions, and they are kicking out energetic particles that are extremely deadly to living flesh. Flares are just bigger explosions in a chain of explosions that carries on for hours on end. Even a small sun spot is an ongoing chain reaction nuclear explosion the size of planet earth... try to wrap your head around the scale of radiation poisoning being emitted by our sun's weather. That's what space beyond the earth's magnetosphere is filled with. None of the Apollo missions ever ventured into that deadly space.
What we are learning today is that both the CMEs and the flares contain deadly radiation poisoning, that even a single solar flare could kill you, and that while you might survive one and even two if you are lucky, you would never survive three in a row, and the five that happened during Apollo 17's flight at solar maximum, would have meant certain death; never mind the four "major" flares that also took place during those two weeks they pretended to be visiting the moon.
The energetic particles contained in solar flares are also caught up in the earth's magnetosphere, where the electrons tend to travel towards the poles and produce the aurora lights in the northern and southern skies. But the protons remained stuck in bands of radiation and die a slow death of five to ten years before losing their charge. Hence, flying through the Van Allen belts at solar maximum is another sure fire way to receive a large dose of radiation... and energetic particles carry a much higher charge than the man made radiation we dole out for x-rays. Energetic electrons are ten times the electron volt administered by our x-ray machines, while energetic protons are 100-1000 times higher in charge. Hence, flying through the Van Allen belts at solar maximum is a deadly affair all its own, because those protons are brand new and they are buzzing at 1000 times the electron volt charge of man made x-rays. All four of Apollo 17's "major" flares would have been caught up in the Van Allen belts and awaiting their return to earth; and lets nor forget that one of the centuries biggest CMEs happened just prior to Apollo 17 launch, so it was captured in the radiation belts and pouring into that flight as well.... supposedly.
In reality, none of the Apollo flights received any radiation at all. The dosimeters all read one REM or even less than one REM for every single Apollo mission. IOW, they were all near earth orbits in the same protective range that the space station maintains; roughly 200 miles up. Manned flight has never gone beyond that range. Neither are we able to do so. A thin layer of gold does not protect against radiation poisoning on earth, let alone the energetic radiation poisoning of the sun's rays. Manned flight to the moon or Mars is nationalistic propaganda, not honest science. Radiation shielding requires a very dense element, remember, you are trying to block a sub-atomic particle, and those dense elements like gold and lead are also the heaviest elements we work with; meanwhile, space craft is made of super light materials on account of fuel and payload and overcoming the earth's gravity. So, blocking energetic particles in space is a non-starter. The entire capsule would need something like six feet thick gold to fully protect it's occupants... and forget about windows because radiation poisoning would flood in through those and kill everyone inside.
The days of pretending that energetic particles are innocuous radiation poisoning are far in our technological past. We've known better for a long, long time in terms of sun science. The biggest thing being studied by science today is the sun. Google sun science and you will immediately realize that we are studying it at every level of the electromagnetic wave spectrum. Today we know what those sun spots are, they are nuclear fission chain reaction explosions, and they are kicking out energetic particles that are extremely deadly to living flesh. Flares are just bigger explosions in a chain of explosions that carries on for hours on end. Even a small sun spot is an ongoing chain reaction nuclear explosion the size of planet earth... try to wrap your head around the scale of radiation poisoning being emitted by our sun's weather. That's what space beyond the earth's magnetosphere is filled with. None of the Apollo missions ever ventured into that deadly space.
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