Why didn't cosmic radiation from the stars and UV radiation kill the crew of Apollo and friends half a century ago?

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[–]BISH 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

They called Nixon from the moon... On a landline.

[–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (4 children)

I know man it's so impressive that the technology was better in 69 than today as far as space travel. We were so special to have won that cold war.

[–]BISH 3 insightful - 5 fun3 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

I wonder what ever happened to the cameraman that filmed the lunar Rover return launches?

He's s a forgotten hero. They just left that fella on the moon's surface, so he could record the launch from the moon.

I wonder what happened to him?
I wonder how they sent the film in his camera back to earth?

Weird.

[–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You're right, nobody ever talks about him. A true hero, banished to a life to be extinguished forever in the desert.

It's pretty insane that to this day we haven't solved the tyranny of the rocket equation, still can't leave "low earth orbit", and we can't go back to see how we did it all, because we destroyed and lost all that data we had. Mans greatest achievement, thrown into an office garbage can. Sad. Don Pettit is my hero. Gus Grissom and the boys would be proud.

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder what ever happened to the cameraman that filmed the lunar Rover return launches?

He hitched a lift back to earth with this guy of course.

Or just maybe... they used a remote controlled video camera and transmitted the video back to earth duh.

This is why moon landing denialists don't get any respect. They don't fucking think things through.

"I personally have no clue how to build a car engine, therefore cars don't exist and the Indianapolis 500 is a hoax herp derp".

[–]BISH 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nice logical fallacies.

+50 years later and NASA admits they don't have the technology to go back. It's fake AF.

[–]weavilsatemyface 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

No, Nixon called them, from a landline that went to NASA that then was connected to their radio communicator to the Apollo lander.

I mean, I'm sure that NASA probably did something more sophisticated, but they could have just had some junior scientist hold the telephone receiver up to the radio link between Houston and the Apollo lander. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to think of that.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

That's bad comedy.

The entire charade was a hoax.

[–]weavilsatemyface 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

LOL. Moon landing denialists are the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Too bloody dumb to realise how bloody dumb they are.

Imagine being so fucked in the head you would have to be to think that, at the height of the Cold War, America's arch-rivals in the USSR would go along with the hoax to enhance America's reputation as winner of the space race. That's almost as dumb as libtards who can't tell the difference between men and women and think that the Jan 6 riots was an insurrection.

I suppose now you're going to say that the Soviet Union never existed and the entire Cold War was a hoax too?

[–]BISH 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I suppose now you're going to say that the Soviet Union never existed and the entire Cold War was a hoax too?

Is this the best you can come up with?

You happen to be...

the perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Too bloody dumb to realise how bloody dumb they are.