Shields Up !!

[Swampcat]

<font color="orange"><b>Superconducting Magnetic Bubble May Protect Astronauts From Radiation</b><br /><br />Using fields of force to accomplish goals in space is a favorite device of science fiction authors. In Larry Niven's award-winning 1970 novel Ringworld, protection against the harsh environmental hazards of space is provided by a hybrid system consisting of a General Products hull and the Slaver stasis field. The General Products hull is an example of a "passive" or material shielding; the hull is transparent to visible light and impervious to electromagnetic energy and matter in any form. The Slaver stasis field creates an area in which time does not pass; since time stands still, no damage can be done to the material occupying the space protected by the field.<br /><br />Former astronaut Jeffery Hoffman is proposing a different sort of hybrid system to protect future astronauts; on long voyages through the solar system they will be exposed to lethal doses of radiation from cosmic rays. He has recieved funding from NASA through NIAC (NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts) to research the idea of a superconducting magnetic radiation shielding system to supplement (or replace) traditional passive shielding. </font><br /><br />SDC article... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[rogers_buck]

Anything is an improvement, but how are you going to stop/deflect those big heavy nucleons moving at relativistic velocities?

 

[Swampcat]

Uh, re-align the plasma flow conduits? <img src="/images/icons/crazy.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>

 

[larper]

Modulate the subspace phase frequency <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><strong><font color="#ff0000">Vote </font><font color="#3366ff">Libertarian</font></strong></p> </div>

 

[rogers_buck]

I forgot about doing those things.. How about "Give the astronaut some latnum."

 

[dub_]

Pfft Ferengis, ALL ABOUT THE LATINUM! Money doesn't solve everything.

 

[spacechump]

<i>Anything is an improvement, but how are you going to stop/deflect those big heavy nucleons moving at relativistic velocities?</i><br /><br />Well that'll probably be the case where actual shielding (water, propellant, big chunks of plastic) will come in handy.

 

[hracctsold]

Is that another authentic realiable Rather quote, or was it made up by another hacker somewhere? Re:spacechump comments.

 

[spacechump]

I have no idea hraccts! But I thought it was pretty funny non-the-less!

 

[hracctsold]

One of the things I like here is you guys' quotes you come up with, or find. I think I even remember Maxwell Smart saying what I read one place here. But I will have to remember that frog quote, that is good. <br /><br />Another one I liked was I think my karma ran over your dogma.