[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
It's not that their medical records are private, it's that the reason we stopped going to the moon is classified. Don't misattribute my reasoning.

Didn't mean to offend you. However, even though you did not say specifically their medical records were classified, you do seem to be trying to make a point that somehow the lack of access to their records is a sign that some goverment coverup is going on. Instead of it merely being standard privacy concerns. Your medical records aren't public record Baron, but we don't try to make that evidence of some nefarious plot on your part.

As far as the reason for later Moon missons being cancled actually being classified instead of the budgetary issues that are well known and easily confirmable, the only evidence we have is your assertion that someone you believe to work for NASA made comments to this effect on a forum somewhere. We have no way of knowing these people even work for Nasa, or that if they do work for Nasa they would neccesarily be privy to such information.

So we have a conspiracy. One large enough to be at least partially known to your mysterious Nasa buddies, but that has otherwise been succesfully kept secret all these years.

Sure, it's possible. It's also possible that we never really went to the moon and it was all faked to begin with.

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
It's true that we don't have to be dependent on the magnetic field of the earth in a 'positive' sense. It could indeed be what it shields us from, but the effect is the same.

The effect is the same, but the solutions are much, much different. Obviously I don't know which it is. I was just hypothesising that it's more likely that the damage is attributable to an excess of the wrong kinds or radiation then it is a lack of the right kinds. If I am wrong and it's a need for "Gaia rays" then it will probably be much more difficult to leave our planet then if it's just a matter of shielding us from "Zeta rays", that is true.

[ March 28, 2004, 03:35: Message edited by: geoschmo ]