Re: Shielding spacecraft against cosmic radiation

On a sunny day (Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:54:24 -0700) it happened John Larkin
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On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:09:47 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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On a sunny day (Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:18:18 -0700) it happened john larkin
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 06:22:55 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
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Shields up: New ideas might make active shielding viable
Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to making it work.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/shields-up-new-ideas-might-make-active-shielding-viable/
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bit of static oelectricity, 1 MV ?

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That's all absurd, cramming a crew into a tiny dark cylinder, deep
inside tons of magnets, to reduce their radiation exposure a little.

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Yes that may be more dangerus, tha tI why I like the elctrostatic solution.
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Space is not people-friendly. Earth is.
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Traveling to or living on Mars woud be lethal. Living on the moon
would be bad too.

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Maybe we could convert some comet, live inside it,
use its material for power water and  shelter
and put an engine on it and start interstellar travel:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOumuamua

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You go first.

Oh I would not mind flying the comet thing, would want to have a say in the design and food chosen though.
but it will take generations to reach any target destination.
So you have to bring whole families ,
or as things go now, just some skin and have a computah hatch you
and teach you when growing up near the destination.
Makes you wonder if the first life on earth was brought here in a similar way
(circular reasoning).
Us being just a chemical process; it is likely everywhere where conditions allow.
The galactic background noise being the combined radio signals from all those civilizations...
We know so little, like an ant in the garden knows about the garden, the designer of the house
th roads, their purpose.
Just a few neurons in the huge universe.
OTOH everything is connected, move an electron here and in time it affects electrons everywhere.