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Post by PhantomWolf on Nov 17, 2010 19:45:55 GMT -4
I have heard all sorts of weird and wonderful things too.
However, they are merely a storage device.
Imagine someone pointing at a sewage pond and being told that it protects us from typhoid. Not correct, the sewage system does that, the pool merely stores the waste till it can be dealt with.
The same thing with the belts, the Earth's magnetic field stores solar particles (the outer belt) and those knocked off the Earth's atmosphere (the inner belt) and that creates the belts. They are a by-product of the Earth's protection system, not part of it.
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Post by fiveonit on Dec 24, 2010 21:04:04 GMT -4
Well is that what Jay meant when he stated this...
"Mr. Green perhaps needs a refresher course on radiation, if indeed he ever knew anything about it to begin with. The Van Allen belts do not protect Earth against x-ray radiation from the sun, but rather from the flow of charged particles."
I think I know what Jay means but perhaps this paragraph on Clavius needs to be re-worded?
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Post by lukepemberton on Mar 20, 2011 13:34:55 GMT -4
Can someone here help educate me on the roles of the Van Allen belts. I keep getting claims from HB's that the Van Allen belts protect the earth from everything from radiation to meteorites. Some of us on this board are currently in a debate with someone on the Davie Icke forums that is basically claiming that the Van Allen belts protect astronauts from Solar Heat and that is why they don't "Cook to death" when in LEO. In a sense, suggesting that the Van Allen belts have some *cooling* effect. And, of course, proving why they should have cooked to death on the moon! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that the Van Allen belts don't protect the earth from much if anything at all. What protects the earth is the Magnetosphere in trapping high energy particles between the lines of magnetic flux and thus forming the belts. In other words, the belts are a consequence of the protection, and not the protection itself. Absolutely correct. What frustrates me even more is when the theorists argue that space is a wash with deadly gamma and x-ray radiation. I guess that means the shuttle EVAs were fake too, as the Earth magnetosphere offers no protection from high frequency electromagnetic waves for astronauts in LEO. |
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Post by theteacher on Mar 20, 2011 14:31:59 GMT -4
Can someone here help educate me on the roles of the Van Allen belts. I keep getting claims from HB's that the Van Allen belts protect the earth from everything from radiation to meteorites. Some of us on this board are currently in a debate with someone on the Davie Icke forums that is basically claiming that the Van Allen belts protect astronauts from Solar Heat and that is why they don't "Cook to death" when in LEO. In a sense, suggesting that the Van Allen belts have some *cooling* effect. And, of course, proving why they should have cooked to death on the moon! Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that the Van Allen belts don't protect the earth from much if anything at all. What protects the earth is the Magnetosphere in trapping high energy particles between the lines of magnetic flux and thus forming the belts. In other words, the belts are a consequence of the protection, and not the protection itself. Absolutely correct. What frustrates me even more is when the theorists argue that space is a wash with deadly gamma and x-ray radiation. I guess that means the shuttle EVAs were fake too, as the Earth magnetosphere offers no protection from high frequency electromagnetic waves for astronauts in LEO. For the sake of accuracy I can't help adding, that "the lines of magnetic flux" are a way to describe the direction and the relative strength of a magnetic field. There are no such lines out in the real world, and thus the particles are not trapped "between the lines". |
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