- Sep 6, 2005
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"I was trying to argue this point with Aladin, I compared the chernobyl incident with hiroshima and nagasaki and the solar radiation and how it is thousands of times more powerful than the hiroshima blasts and that killed thousands of people that weren't even near by the initial explosion and on top of that the only sure fire way to protect from radiation like that is with lead, SOLID LEAD. and when we get solar flares ( in our protective bubble mind you) the astronauts could be harmed from the blasts even minuscule flares, and we sent people to the moon with unfiltered radiation? I just don't think you can travel outside of the van allen belts, even in our protective bubble and outside of it (somehow) you still have vast amounts of space radiation and it's not filtered through a magnetosphere or atmosphere.... maybe that is why Von Braun said we can't go in the 50's because he knew you would need TONS of lead and TONS of propulsion to get that lead and astronauts to the moon safely."