The Van Allen Belts Are Dangerous - But Didn't Keep Us From The Moon | Answers With Joe

As many have pointed out, the nuclear test in the belts was actually Starfish Prime, not Starship Prime. Much better name actually. :)

Most people don't realize that without the Van Allen belts, the Van Allen pants would fall down, thus exposing the moon.

I met Van Allen in the late 90's in Iowa City, he was very nice and at the time he was building a telescope at the university of Iowa. I asked him a ton of Physics questions while I had his attention, I actually originally put together the system they ended up using to turn the telescope. They brought in a expert for Linux I won't mention but he wrote on my workbench as we all watched, drivers for the freaking machine. It was an awesome experience and Van Allen ended up being an amazingly nice person.

I totally did the, "Oh, you believe in the moon?" thing about 8 years ago to a moon landing denier. He backed away from me thinking I was the crazy one. WINNING!

My biggest argument against the moon landings being a hoax is; that the Soviets, who had all the equipment and instrumentation to track and measure what NASA were doing, and a big incentive to expose a hoax landing if it had been, acknowledged them as genuine.

18:45 "which is why doctors don't use them very often". HA! I am a CT Tech, and I can attest that very very very very very few ordering Practitioners give any thought to the radiation dose to the patient. Nowadays, a risk-benefit assessment (which used to mean radiation risk versus diagnostic benefit) is about risk of complaint and litigation versus benefit of receiving insurance reimbursement and huge profit to the institute in which the Practitioner operates. Sorry to hijack the subject here.

One interesting fact I heard about the moon landing was that we didn't have the technology to fake an uninterrupted live stream that long. The moon landing hoax says that the footage was filmed on a sound stage and then edited in post production, which we did have the technology to do, but film was stored on reels that had an upper limit on their length, and switching out the reels resulted in obvious cuts, which were usually done as commercial breaks. But the moon landing was multiple hours of uncut footage with no commercial breaks, and thus could only have been an actual live stream from the moon.

Joe, can you do a video on time zones? Specifically, when mankind realized that different locations had different local times, and what caused the creation of time zones?

Being a nuclear engineer, you gave a very good explanation about the expected radiation doses and precautions one takes to minimizes any health effects from travel through the belts.

I've always enjoyed the saying/thought that the Apollo astronauts were way more brave than smart, and they were extremely smart.

Personally, I think the biggest thing pointing to Fake Moon Landing, was the infamous picture of the Lunar Lander where the leg of the lander was covering one of the crosshairs in the corner of the photo

Thank you for your voice of reason. You & your videos are awesome & genuinely appreciated.

Never believed it a hoax but was accused of being a conspiracy theorist when I asked how they managed to pass through the Van Allen radiation belts without harm to the astronauts. I was genuinely interested in this answer when I was younger but no one wanted to answer (pre internet) I was not studying science so I never bothered following up on it. Question finally answered 30 years late but still appreciated 🤣😂🤣

I’m old enough to remember when computers were only in university labs and secret government facilities. I saw the introduction of electricity to typewriters. Damn, I feel old.

One of the best info docs i have ever seen presented. Well done.

“They literally just problem solved their way to the moon” 😂 I love that

Never ceases to amaze me that the more information that is available, the more people tend to favor the false information that fits with their world view over easy-to-check factual data. People would rather FEEL right than actually BE right... facts have somehow become a "matter of opinion". Very sad and hopefully we as a society can move forward from this very concerning trend.

Driving around with Explorer 1 in your trunk is on the same level than having 50% of the World's Radium reserves in your suitcase while taking the tramway from your institute in Berlin to the Prussian Academy of Science to show it to the king.

Seriously, your videos never cease to impress me.

Great video Joe, thanks for posting.