EP 24 · 56:49

Van Allen belts: what’s real vs what’s exaggerated

From Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon

Episode
18/23
A first-principles Artemis II deep dive—SLS, Orion, free-return trajectories, and translunar injection—plus a clean teardown of the biggest Apollo hoax claims.
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56:50>> Yeah. Yeah. 3.6 run, you know. Yeah. [laughter] So the preliminary the preliminary data from those domters show that while the environments is harsh the shielding and the short transit time is enough to keep that dose well within safety limits. >> And it looks like the lethal dose is uh 400 rats. >> Yes. >> And so we're talking about8 and the Apollo times. >> Yeah. >> And so we're like we're not even >> Yeah. And I mean you do it so that the trajectory of the mission actually like >> avoids the big part of that radiation belt, right? you you know where the donut is and you can figure out how to avoid it. >> And this is why launch windows are a thing. >> Yes. Exactly. [laughter] Yeah. So the

57:31second one >> Yes. >> flags are waved in a vacuum. Right. This was the flag that was waving and it's like oh how is it waving if it's in a vacuum and then there's no air. Actually I would actually like to suggest that the flag waving is actually a characteristic of the vacuum. And here's why. So in a vacuum there's no atmosphere. >> Mhm. >> Correct. [clears throat] So with a flag that's waving, if the air is very still like it is in the studio, then the friction from the air is going to stop the waving. >> Mhm. >> So that the flag is going to be still. >> Mhm. >> If there's no air and I give the flag a certain amount of momentum, it's kind of

58:12like a pendulum just sling swinging back and forth. It's going to keep waving. the only friction is coming from the internal friction of the fiber in the flag itself. >> Right? >> And so the fact that it kept sort of

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  1. EP 24

    Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon

    How Artemis II works—and why Apollo denial collapses under physics.

    A first-principles Artemis II deep dive—SLS, Orion, free-return trajectories, and translunar injection—plus a clean teardown of the biggest Apollo hoax claims.