Last weeks announcement by Elon Musk that SpaceX will be sending a Japanese millionaire to the moon came as no shock to many of us. We know it is possible, as it was done before, in the 60's & 70's.
The conspiracy loons though, are fed the Kool-aid that anyone, foolish enough to fly through the Van Allen Belt's donut-shaped radiation fields, would die the kind of horrible death normally reserved for Sci-Fi B movies. Musk's announcment conference didn't even bother to address this stupidity of course.
The truth is that while the belts do contain some harmful radiation, quite a bit of it can be blocked with simple polythene. The rest, and most dangerous particles, can be simply flown around, or a path chosen that reduces exposure to a minimum. The Apollo astronauts (or were they sound-stage actors?) wore monitors and all received radiation similar to a few chest xrays. Many of the latter have died of old age, but not after many, many cancer-free years of laughing at Moon Hoaxers.
Some people believe the earth is flat. Elvis, who lives in a suburb of Las Vegas, told me this.
Hey, a story that didn't mention Donald Trump!
Darn it.
