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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Radiation does not work that way. You are talking about intense enough energy to strip off the atmosphere, boil the oceans, and vaporize the first fifty miles of crust. Nothing in the Solar System (or any system within a few light years) would be suitable for colonization after that, as everything in the Solar System would be equally baked, because you are talking about levels of radiation equal to a nearby hypernova (or a relatively close AGN). In fact, given a minimum distance of 85 light-years, you are talking about an event that would make every planet within 1000 light-years of the event unsuitable for colonization.
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I didn't say fifty miles of planetary crust would be vaporized. I said it wouldn't protect you. Not the same thing at all. And I also specified that a "botched stellar engineering project" was the source of the radiation. I know physics isn't my long suit. However I did try to get it right.