Tim Dodd
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard 9 Feb
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So they estimated, here's about what we think.
And those levels after Explorer two, Explorer four, all these other subsequent missions, Luna and the Soviets missions through the Van Allen belts till they get to the moon.
We refined and we, and not only did we refine those numbers, we mapped out the Van Allen radiation belts.
Right.
So the, the numbers that like Sabrell's always quoting is like literally the very first finding ever, you know, it's like sticking a probe on a volcano and going, Oh, the volcano is 10 million degrees.
It's like, well, yeah, maybe in that one spot that one time.
You know, it's like, let's, let's get the whole picture of, of the, how the volcano actually works, all of it from the under here and there.
And so we've mapped that out by the sixties, we had a really good understanding of what the belts look like.
Cause we almost thought with Explorer one, it seemed like it was just this entire disc and like a whole, or not a disc, a whole like extra sphere around the earth that was potentially high radiation.
We didn't even know what was beyond that Explorer one didn't go that high.
So it's like, Oh.
What if like beyond this, the radiation levels go way up beyond that even, or way up beyond, you know, we didn't know what it looked like.
And it turns out the toroidal shapes are like donuts around the earth.
And those peak levels are like when, you know, again, when people are quoting like the maximum level, you're talking about like in the absolute worst spot where if you were butt naked out there, you would receive a not healthy amount of radiation.
put on a space suit already, boom, you probably cut it in about a third.
Get inside of a metal aluminum and stainless steel capsule with heat shield and a lot of polycarbonates and a lot of other mass between you and that, boom, you cut it down about a hundred or whatever the number is.
I don't even know.
It's probably realistically about a quarter or whatever.
At the end of the day, it's all about how much time you're spending in radiation.
That's why nurses and x-ray technicians, they leave the room during an x-ray.
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