09-11-2010, 05:29 PM
I have invited John P. Costella, who has a Ph.D. in physics with electromagnetism as his area of specialization, to comment. In relation to the point at which J. Vernon Bailey addresses the issue most directly in the final paragraph, which I quote here, namely:
In terms of hazard to crewmen in the heavy, well shielded Command Module, even one of the largest solar-particle event series on record (August 4-9, 1972) would not have caused any impairment of crewmember functions or ability of the crewmen to complete their mission safely. It is estimated that within the Command Module during this event the crewmen would have received a dose of 360 rads
[*] to their skin and 35 rads to their blood-forming organs (bone and spleen).
the use of the subjunctive (as to what would have happened as opposed to what did) combined with ESTIMATES about the exposure they would have received when THEY SHOULD KNOW THE EXPOSURE THEY DID RECEIVE suggests to me that this is pure bunk.
In terms of hazard to crewmen in the heavy, well shielded Command Module, even one of the largest solar-particle event series on record (August 4-9, 1972) would not have caused any impairment of crewmember functions or ability of the crewmen to complete their mission safely. It is estimated that within the Command Module during this event the crewmen would have received a dose of 360 rads
[*] to their skin and 35 rads to their blood-forming organs (bone and spleen).
the use of the subjunctive (as to what would have happened as opposed to what did) combined with ESTIMATES about the exposure they would have received when THEY SHOULD KNOW THE EXPOSURE THEY DID RECEIVE suggests to me that this is pure bunk.