Trump signs executive order to support moon mining, tap asteroid resources

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[–]rightykiller 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

the van allen belt isnt that deadly, we have lead that stops the charged electrons

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The Van Allen belts are full of cosmic rays. Cosmic rays can potentially exceed the particle energy of any particle produced on Earth.

the energies of the most energetic ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have been observed to approach 3 × 1020 eV,[11] about 40 million times the energy of particles accelerated by the Large Hadron Collider.[12]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray

Also, anyone who makes it past the Van Allen Belts will continue to be bombarded by solar wind and cosmic rays.

There are a number of obvious conclusions that can be drawn based on these facts of physics.

[–]rightykiller 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

lead shielding exists, it stops the charged electrons, and 40 millions times the energy isnt that much when you are talking about near weightless particles

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

X-ray radiation is massless and it easily goes through thin lead vests, etc. It's not even a particle.

Doctors give you an x-ray vest, and they GTFO of the room. Cause the vest is doing very little.

Cosmic rays are many, many, many orders of magnitude more energetic than x-rays.

40,000,000 is +7 orders of magnitude more powerful than the most powerful device on Earth.

There's many more orders of magnitude between the LHC and a doctor's x-ray camera.

The lead won't help.

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

let me guess, moon landing denier?