Topic: Kelly Smith

Dave Colum recounts a situation at Cornell University involving a student facing backlash for controversial social media comments. He reflects on his own experience with public criticism following high-profile interviews and compares his "thin skin" to the resilience of professional commentators like Dave Smith and Glenn Greenwald. The segment highlights the risks of spontaneous speech in the podcasting medium.

Modern NASA footage for the Orion project features engineer Kelly Smith warning that radiation belts must be solved before sending humans through them, contradicting the Apollo-era claim that they were harmless. This discrepancy raises questions about how 1960s astronauts survived the trip without specialized shielding. Beyond the belts, astronauts would also face constant bombardment from high-energy cosmic rays and solar particles.