NorthMountain,
Your response is typical. You can’t handle the truth, so you ignore it and substitute an ad hominem attack.
If anything, you should find it suspicious that a NASA engineer, in a NASA produced video, is making a recent claim that we can’t yet go through the Van Allen radiation belts. You should be questioning NASA, not me.
Here is a sample letter for you to send to NASA:
Dear NASA People,
How did the Apollo astronauts get through the Van Allen radiation belts back in the 1960s and return with live astronauts and electronics intact? In your video, you clearly stated that we can’t do that yet. So, tell me, how did we do that back then?
Quit lying.
“We” knew a long time ago how to make electronics radiation-hard. The Van Allen belts were never the big deal you make them out to be. How do you think they were discovered?
Quit Lying.
Do you know the difference between heat and temperature? Do you know there IS a difference between heat and temperature?
Quit lying.
New Horizons is unmanned. You know that, right?
Quit lying.
In the end, it seemed that these tactics worked; the on-board dose counters for the Apollo missions registered average radiation doses to the skin of the astronauts of 0.38 rad. This is about the same radiation dose as getting two CT scans of your head, or half the dose of a single chest CT scan; not too bad, though not something you should do every week.
Somehow your choice in screen names reminds me of the clinton’s choice of calling their co-presidency “the most ethical ever”.
Or perhaps Obama’s choice of calling his “the most transparent ever”.