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To: marek_wojna who wrote (71068)	6/3/2001 11:12:57 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116779

I often wondered about that. Without the Van Allen Radiation belt, the ozone layer and 100 miles of atmosphere, we on the surface of m. earth would cook in the bath of high energy cosmic rays emanating from the sun. As a matter of fact, it is impossible to send men into space when the sun is too active with its sunspots spewing forth radiation. In fact the helmets need gold shielding on the visors to protect the eyes and prevent excessive heatloss. 6 inches of lead sounds about right, and to prevent really high radiation levels at active times you would need more than that. About ten feet of water or active high intensity deflection radiation shields. But the pictures from the moon looked so realistic! How where they able to fake that? Or if they did not, how were they able to shield the asronauts? I know that some came back changed men, and it could not be all from the grand view. Some brain damage seems likely. I had heard that the TWA -flight 800 could have been a bad hydraulic valve on the rear stabilizer sponson, on the other hand there is a rumour that a top secret offshore navy missile launching frigate run by a controversial Windows NT auto launch-on-warning program misfired when its detection program had a fatal expception upon detection of the target and it was set to default to a launch as the safest option. Had you you heard anything about that? EC<:-}