The Case of the Cosmic Ray
There is a strange anomaly in the reporting of space journalists in regards to the affects that Cosmic Radiation and Cosmic Rays have on the human body. Particularly the eyes where it is well understood that they cause blinding flashes of light even with the eyes closed.
According to wikipedia
Cosmic rays compose a part of natural background radiation on Earth, averaging about 10-15% of it. However, persons living at higher altitude can obtain several times more cosmic radation than at sea level, and long distance airline crews can double their yearly ionizing radiation exposure due to this source. Since the intensity of cosmic rays is much larger outside the Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field, it is expected to have a major impact on the design of spacecraft that can safely transport humans in interplanetary space.
Cosmic rays can have energies of over 1020 eV, far higher than the 1012 to 1013 eV that Terrestrial particle accelerators can produce. In the history of particle physics, cosmic rays were the source of the discovery of the positron, muon, and pi meson.
Where the disconnect occurs is when space journos discuss the possibility of sending humans to the moon or even further out into the galaxy like for instance to colonise Mars. The problem is that they rarely take into account the massive amounts of shielding that will be required to protect human space travellers from the extremely detrimental affects of constant exposure to the Cosmic Background Radiation. We can get an idea of what kind of level of shielding we would need by simply looking at the Large Hadron Collider which is buried under the Swiss Alps and completely surrounded by concrete.
As we are all well aware it would require a very large rocket to power it’s way through the atmosphere with a payload of hundreds of tonnes of concrete shielding onboard so it sure seems strange that nearly every news article these days conveniently leaves out the fact that we have not yet found a way to transport that much shielding into space let alone the vehicle, supplies and people to go inside the shielding.
It’s bad enough that the astronauts on the Space Station suffer from cataracts caused by the Cosmic Rays they are exposed to inside our magnetosphere. What would be the result of a couple of hours/days/weeks/months of constant exposure to the depths of space without the kind of shielding that they have surrounding the LHC?
The near universal ignorance of this issue by space journalists offers only tow possibilities. Either they are completely clueless and should not be reporting or they are purposefully ignoring the issue because the can of worms that it signifies is just too big to open and the pay packet they receive by carefully ignoring the issue is worth more to them than their integrity.
Of course all these problems and more could have been well on their way to being conclusively solved by now if the Elites hadn’t decided to squander the past 20 years by continuing to have pointless energy consuming wars. If they had instead used the scarce finite energy resources and directed the support of the masses into building space vessels we could actually be travelling around the galaxy by now.






