Halcyon Starfish

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@BoloneyPony @BSmithBenS Nothing.

@BSmithBenS What happened to the Van Allen Radiation Belts?

The footage from Artemis II has got all the flat Earth space cadets on the globe below struggling to cope.

@PostmanCat789 @NASA It's not in the visible spectrum.

@NASA Van Allen Belt.

Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

@GenX_Thomas @BSmithBenS Same as always: quickly and going around the denser part.

@BSmithBenS How do we get through the Van Allen Radiation Belt?

@daplumba @AlexWillows2000 @TheOnlyFronk @michaelshermer According to whom?

@AlexWillows2000 @TheOnlyFronk @michaelshermer No human is flying through the Van Allen radiation belt. Unless the vessel has 2ft lead walls. No human has ever left orbit.

Dear No Moonies: If we never landed on the moon what is your explanation for these images taken by the Chandrayaan-2 probe from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), when it mapped the lunar surface in detail in 2021?

@Br0mslee @AreOhEssEyeEe Only if you spend a week in the densest parts.

@MLJanson @AreOhEssEyeEe The radiation belts are pretty charged. The inner belt is roughly 1.2–2 Earth radii out, while the outer extends to 3–5 radii, enough to cook some astronauts and satellites that stray too far from the Earth.

I'm not a flat earther BUT... NASA is a government agency and I do not trust any government agency. Everything we've been taught is a lie. Obviously I can't go to space like Katy Perry (she didn't go to space), so I keep an open mind that anything is possible.

Left - Apollo 17, 1972 Right - Artemis II, 2026 Two photographs taken by one of us, of all of us, over half a century apart. What's changed?

@Br0mslee @AreOhEssEyeEe Van Allen never claimed anything like that.

@AreOhEssEyeEe A good thing to question. I am not sure they can get past the van allen belts. They need water or heavy metals for insulation from the radiation, which is too heavy to bring with them. x.com/Xx17965797N/st…

@chuckmcnam @TheMoonCarl Well, if he thought he knew better than Van Allen, there's probably a reason he got dismissed.

@MLJanson @TheMoonCarl Coming from a NASA engineer who ended up being dismissed. They would have to launch the rocket from the north or south Pole to avoid the radiation.

We never went to the moon, and NASA lies about everything.

@ReciprocitEye @Darkstalight @ManaByte You can see how difficult it is for SpaceX to get Starship to be able to launch reliably. Space travel remains hard and funding limited.

@MLJanson @Darkstalight @ManaByte So you think in 50 years we don't have infinitely better technology to improve on the technology that got them to the Moon? 👌

If you’re wondering why so many people are drooling idiots now and truly believe we didn’t land on the moon, you can probably thank Joe Rogan:

@ReciprocitEye @Darkstalight @ManaByte So you think there's an assembly line you can switch on that will just spit out a brand new Saturn 5?

@Darkstalight @ManaByte hmmm...sure. That's why it's been so easy to get back and land again?

@ManaByte That explains where the brainrot is coming from.

@uMzilankatha95 @Celibate_Uno Build and test the SLS.

@Celibate_Uno @MLJanson 15 years to do what???

@Celibate_Uno 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@Celibate_Uno @uMzilankatha95 That's why it took them 15 years.

@uMzilankatha95 I thought they destroyed all the technology and it will be a pain to rebuild 🤔

@Dvulge_Wellness @LucasGageX He did in the 1960s.

@LucasGageX Did NASA finally solve the Van Allen radiation belt problem?

Just as I thought: No matter what comes out of Artemis II, the Flerfs and Moon Landing Deniers will say it's fake. I've concluded there's no point even trying to wake these people up. They need to be completely ignored and quarantined. This is my last word on the topic.

@JamesCo08169320 @ABC According to whom?

@ABC No human has EVER "flown" through the Van Allen radiation belt.

This animation shows NASA’s Artemis II mission path, a journey of nearly 685,000 miles. The crew will travel in a figure-eight trajectory, looping out from Earth, around the Moon, and back again. Follow live updates: abcnews.link/qHsZ657

@chuckmcnam @TheMoonCarl According to whom?

@QosQash @NASA What's so interesting about the windowframe?

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

@Keisaritamarii1 @SkyNews Van Allen himself would disagree.

@SkyNews But they are still in the orbit. Its impossible to pass van allen belt until they have lead capsule.

"No matter where you're from or what you look like, we're all one people." Artemis II pilot Victor Glover says the mission shows what they can do when they bring their differences together and use their strengths to accomplish something great. trib.al/7I9bkwN