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Research the Van Allen Belt. It will answer all 4 questions you posed.

1. The Empire Sate Building is in our earth’s atmosphere. AKA within the Van Allen Belt. 2. Planes flying at 35,000 feet are in our earth’s atmosphere. AKA within the Van Allen Belt. 3. Those satellites circling our planet are technically in our earth’s atmosphere. AKA within the Van Allen Belt.

Are you serious?? Neither the Empire State building or airplanes are anywhere NEAR the Van Allen belts. Some satellites might enter the region..not sure..I would think they would program the orbits to avoid it due to possible radiation damage.

4. The Moon is not in our atmosphere and well beyond the Van Allen Belt.

Well that's ONE thing you got right!

During the space race of the ‘60’s no other country (Russia and China) sent any living thing (plant or animal) outside of the Van Allen Belt that didn’t come back x-rayed to death. But, we did. Our government would never lie to us either.

Of course we did...because we spent billions and billions of dollars that the the other countries didn't have. The craft we sent out were shielded. The shielding is sufficient to stop nearly all radiation although there is slightly more exposure then a typical earther.

I read on a NASA website that in the most intense regions, the Van Allen belts deliver 1/4 rem per hour to a satellite that is protected by 1/8" plate aluminum. It takes about 100 rems exposure to make a person sick. So the radiation is not that intense. Easy to cross in a few hours.

But if you listen to the conspiracy theorists, it's like a microwave oven. Where are they getting their information if not from NASA?

Solar radiation is easily shielded against since it is charged. Cosmic rays not so easy. The only thing that blocks it is mass, and then only partially.

No $hit! Try reading the post I was replying to. My contention is this. No other country has sent any living thing past the belt w/out it coming back Xrayed to death. Maybe we could reproduce their “shields” for the hospitals so we wouldn’t have to wear lead vests when getting xrayed or magnetic imaging. Or, maybe the shields were made out of lead just the feather weight kind so it could leave our atmosphere.