Michael Larkin
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The van allen belt thing that moon landing conspiracy theorists always bring up is pretty much nonsense, and the reasons that they believe this specific one, is generally in most cases, based on people's limited comprehension of subjects that they are not studied in (funnily enough, how ironic for me to say, isn't it). In recent years having done a little of physics, engineering and other STEM subjects in college, it really helps to have this background because it trains your mind to think about things that actually have real effects in the world. Every little thing has to make logical sense, and you have to put effort into thinking about all of it in your mind, otherwise you will fail the class from your lack of understanding!
As I understand it, the concentration of radiation contained is not of the same magnitude in all places. It is not equally distributed. Thus, there are areas where there exist hardly any harmful radiation in an amount that would kill astronauts, and/or the amount of time spent transitioning them on the way to the moon, is negligible.
I'd be very surprised if the moon landing were hoaxed. Man most certainly did walk on the moon. There are far too many things that exist to disprove this.
Well, if the Van Allen belts are nonsense, one has to explain why NASA is on record as saying they are dangerous. And if they said that, why they ignored them on the moonflights. It's the inconsistencies that bug me. They can't seem to get all their ducks in a row. I mean, why stop people flying over the moon landing sites if there's nothing to hide? I may be agnostic, but I suspect there's shenanigans going on -- quite why, I could only speculate.