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ehkzu
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1. Say the ship is as shielded as we can manage today, but it goes over the singularity's polar X-ray jet. Everyone & everything gets fried?<br /><br />2. Suppose the ship used dynamic radiation protection along the lines NASA speculatively discussed decades ago, such that the ship was wreathed in its own Van Allen belt. Would the X-ray jet still probably punch through that? My ideal plotting would have the ship's field generator increase power enough to protect the ship at least partially in the short time it spent in transit over the black hole's pole but burn out in doing so. I'll only use that if that's plausible though.<br /><br />3. Then the ship would be captured by the BH's gravity well & start spiraling in. Then the tidal forces--gravity differential--would start affecting people, equipment, the ship's frame. I understand that ultimately this would shred everything. What I don't understand is what effect it would have at first. The ship would be in free fall, so why would people feel anything? Mightn't they just move faster? Also, I unerstand that the bigger the black hole the more gradual the onset of these effects. Right?